an amusing yard sale find...

It's no secret that I love old stuff, particularly, anything old with printing & period graphics on it. It makes my day when I can score this stuff at a yard sale. And now, since vintage for me is anything from the 80's back, there seems to be an abundance of stuff out there for the taking.
One thing I'm always on the lookout for is vintage cooking & food related stuff. Cookbooks, old packaged kitchen ware...etc. Here are some of the old cookbooks I've scored over the years. This particular collection consists of company-issued marketing incentive type books. These are my faves:

What I love most about these is getting an insight into what & how people ate. (Luckily, most of them are dated.) One book from the 20's talks about coordinating with your staff of servants, another from the 50's focuses on man-pleasing meals. Some are just pretty.

What I also love, is laughing. And when you see some of the recipes and the unappetizing way they were photographed, you can't help but crack up. For instance, I picked up this baby this morning. A Weight Watchers recipe card collection dated 1976.

I am a fan of modern-day Weight Watchers but wow, have they come a long way!
Next time your family & friends complain about what you cooked them for dinner, how about serving this up the next night:

You are not seeing things. That is a crown roast of frankfurters. Could you imagine presenting this at the dinner table? What is that in the middle of the frankfurter spectacular? Or how about these:

Apparently, mackrel was and ecomomical and versatile fish in the 70's. Thank goodness my mom was not wise to this! (Just looking at that photo of the fish and boiled eggs is making my belly hurt.)

So, now to do some much needed house cleaning and hopefully find some desk time. Thanks for indulging me while I went off topic! By the way, trying to do a little blog updating and re-design, so please forgive me if things get a little wonky. A computer code-writing genius I am not!