OT- Auntie Shelley’s Green Bean Casserole - Page 5

Wow, what a great thread.  I hope no one minds that I'm using some of these for the party :-)

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I still remember (read: rue) the day back in the 60's when my family got the first Campbell's soup cookbook. I'm pretty sure between my parents and my grandmother, I suffered through each and every recipe in that rag for years! Partcicularly embraced were the casserole recipes. Remember the Tuna Noodle Casserole with Cream of Mushroom Soup, canned peas and crumbled (stale) potato chips on top? To this day the smell of hot tunafish and the taste of Campbell's Cream-of-Anything-But-Tomato soup makes me retch. Hence the GBC recipe I dreamed up some 20 years back. My Daddy, otherwise a reasonable man and a good cook, was probably still extolling the virtues of that salt-heavy, potato-starch based crap, and the Van de Camps baked beans with the extra salt, molasses and hot dogs, Hormel corned beef hash, "chipped beef on toast" (SOS) fried bolony sandwiches on Wonder Bread and canned ham with pinapple and cloves on top, on his death bed, God Bless him.

I'm sure the interest in that awful cookbook that generation embraced had something to do with the Great Depression and WW2 food rationing, but I'm thinking/praying that interest won't survive through the next depression.

I will now ruin a lot of people's day with a jingle you won't be able to get out of your heads for a very long while:

I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener

That is what I'd truly like to be

'Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener

Everyone would be in love with me.

I actually saw this thing drive through my neighborhood when I was in Elementary School. I believe I was watching My Friend Flicka on our Bell & Howell b/w TV when we heard the horn blasting out the jingle.

Sure wish I had hung on to my Wiener Whistle. It's probably worth a fortune on E-Bay these days.It played four notes, to play along with the jingle. Mom smashed it with a 4" spike heel when she woke up with a hangover one Sunday morning.

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