Butterbeer!
Butterbeer: A heavy, butterscotch soda. Can be made with alcohol too. Here’s a basic recipe.
And here’s some alternates.
Photos via fuckyeahemmawatson; Food Network
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Also as a kid, I had a small stack of these flyers: The official Baskin-Robbins 31 flavors list, changed out monthly, available at the counter.
And Daiquiri Ice was my favorite. The allure of drinking without the drinking.
Found via So Much Pileup.
Libby the Kid
By far, these were the coolest tee vee dinners of the 1970s.
I used to be able to draw the Kid quite well and still have a 3D mug premium sitting around here somewhere.
Canteen, Death Star
‘I can kill catering with a thought’
Eddie Izzard‘s Death Star Canteen (from Circle) as interpreted thru Legos.
Found via Johnny Jnerebel
Twinkie ingredients
Wheat flower, folic acid
‘A popular rule of thumb among proponents of healthy food is that the fewer ingredients there are in something, better it is for you. With a remarkable 37 or so ingredients, many of which are polysyllabic chemical compounds, Twinkies would seem to embody the antithesis of that rule.’
Photography by Dwight Eschliman. Details about his ’37 or so Ingredients’ project (and book) here.
Plus, check out Steve Ettlinger’s Twinkie Deconstructed.
I like how the beef fat is now labeled ‘animal shortening.’
Riboflavin, iron
Corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup
Vegetable shortening, animal shortening
Monoglyceride, diglyceride
Bacon mints (and type) in Alameda
Picked these up at Space Happy in Alameda. They also have a GREAT collection of typographic tsotchkes, cut letters, wood letters, metal letters; cool stuff.
Mo’s Bacon Chocolate
‘You won’t believe how good this tastes!’
On sale right now at Cost Plus, Vosges Bacon Chocolate Bars. Yum!
Found via Jessica Deprez
Cheerios, the ‘terribly adult cereal’
Early 1960s Cheerios commercial featuring the great Stan Freberg.
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