From 1966: How Much Do Those Go-Go Boots Weigh?

1966

Note that the "diet" involves no solid food for almost a week.  
Be sure to double-click the graphic so you get all of the depressing copy.

From The Summer of 1979: The Versatile Deliciousness Of Thousand Island Dressing

People

August 6, 1979

Unfortunately, Wishbone Thousand Island dressing isn't included on that Scarsdale Diet that all the girls at the beauty shop are so crazy about...you know the one, the one we saw on Merv?

(I love the "recipe hints" in this ad.  You don't have to sell me on using Thousand Island on sandwiches.  I love it on reubens, on turkey sandwiches, with roast beef on rye...)

(And something else: you can make the most divine salad dressing with hummus, lemon juice, Bragg Liquid Aminos, and olive oil.  Slap it all in a bowl and mix it up.  I prefer much more of the Liquid Aminos than the lemon juice; but you come up with your own proportions.  Experimenting with the amounts is part of the fun!)

As I Blog While Starving (And A Chicken Is Baking In My Oven And Our Whole House Smells Like Lemony Garlicky Deliciousness)

And as my stomach growls...

Boy howdy, this blog is going to be a favorite of mine.  I can just tell.

I've been toying with the notion of actually making some of the vintage recipes that cross my path, kind of like what I did with The Salad of '75 (remember?).

Then I would photograph the results and give you my review.

What do you think?

I love the condescending quotation marks.  Isn't that cute of that homemaker, to actually think that she's a chef?  Whatever will her pretty little head think up next?

From 1981: Consult The Phone Book For The Class Nearest You

From 1976: With Ayds, Dieting Has Never Been So Downright Delicious!

McCall's, April 1976

A great double-clicker. And I am still on my diet and could sure use some goddamned diet candy around these parts right about now. I've had to settle for chewing my own toenails, and they just are not the same. Maybe if I have my feet a light dusting of Hershey's Cocoa? Light on the calories, heavy on taste? Or chocolate Slim Fast, perhaps?

From 1956: As I Lay Dieting

American Meat Institute, Family Circle, July 1956

A double clicker not to be forgotten, trust me.

I'm on a self-imposed diet that just so happens to coincide with the six weeks of full-on Catholic guilt otherwise known as Lent. I'm just not happy with my current weight and I know that I can do better, look better, be better. But gee golly, gee damn, those hot dogs are actually tempting to me. I have even looked longingly at one of the most hated of all Fifties Foodstuffs here at Touch Of Tuesday Weld, that green Jello botched abortion in the middle of the platter. Are those chopped onions suspended in green gelatin?

Goddammit, where's my sugarless gum and my Diet Coke?

From 1932: Chubby Chicks Advised To Quite Literally Pound Salt

Probably one of the best double-clickers I've ever had here.

Slim Down Just In Time For Stan and Linda Facemeyers' Bicentennial BBQ Pool Party

1976

A terrific double-clicker.

Or, You Could Just Score Some Boxes From The Loading Dock Of The Local A&P, Cut 'Em Up Into Bite Size Bits, And Swab A Little Peanut Butter On Those

People

May 19, 1986

More Cold Food For Hot Days: Chef's Salad, 1979

People

May 7, 1979