Date: 2010-08-17 01:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] suzycat.livejournal.com
"tint very lightly with red colouring to simulate fresh fruit". YUK.

Pear Surprise sounds like the surprise is, it tastes revolting!

Date: 2010-08-17 01:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hootie-mcboobs.livejournal.com
Wow, if I pair these "glamorous" cheese-stuffed, painted pears with those "gay" donut skewers and fornicating gin from yesterday's posts, it will surely be the party of the year.

Date: 2010-08-17 01:26 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] flummoxicated.livejournal.com
That recipe confirms my theory that recipes with the word "surprise" in the title tend to be awful.

Date: 2010-08-17 03:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meezergal.livejournal.com
It didn't say it was gonna be a GOOD surprise! :D

Date: 2010-08-17 01:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com
Peaches and mayonnaise? What the hell used to be wrong with peoples' tastebuds?

Date: 2010-08-17 01:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mystical-chickn.livejournal.com
Pears, actually. Not that that's much better.

Date: 2010-08-17 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wikdsushi.livejournal.com
This reminds me of a layer salad recipe my mom makes every family get-together. For years, I, the family vegetarian, longed to try it, because it looked so good. Finally, last Christmas, Mom made me a little one without bacon. I dug in, convinced that the white layer on top was some delicious, special dressing---

No, it was mayo. Straight mayo. Out of the jar.

I spent most of the wee hours of Christmas morning watching Blackadder's Christmas and vomiting profusely.

Date: 2010-08-17 01:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] singeaddams.livejournal.com
My, they look so somber. Clearly they're at a wake.

Date: 2010-08-17 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hootie-mcboobs.livejournal.com
That or they just realized they were being served canned pears and mayonnaise. That would sombre me up pretty quick too.

Date: 2010-08-17 01:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] singeaddams.livejournal.com
Add cheddar cheese and it actually tastes good, believe it or not.
I swear it!

Date: 2010-08-17 01:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hootie-mcboobs.livejournal.com
... I might just have to take your word on that.

The way you describe it below sounds like one thing, but pears + pineapple cheese + mayonnaise... urg.

Date: 2010-08-18 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cocoajava.livejournal.com
IT DOES! I love canned pears (not fresh), grated cheddar cheese and a blob of mayo.

Date: 2010-08-18 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] singeaddams.livejournal.com
SEE?! I'm not crazy!

Date: 2010-08-19 02:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baron154.livejournal.com
They're somber because the maid's corpse is cooling in the kitchen after dying of disgust at making this. But they don't want to ruin a pleasant evening.

Date: 2010-08-19 03:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] singeaddams.livejournal.com
It's so hard to get good help these days.

Date: 2010-08-17 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] singeaddams.livejournal.com
Also, I have to say that pears and mayonnaise actually go well together. My family makes a 'pear salad' that consists of chilled, canned pear halves, grated cheddar cheese in the 'holes' of the pears and then a small dollop of mayo on top. The saltiness of the mayo and the sharpness of the cheese balances out the sweetness of the pear very nicely.

That dyed monstrosity with the pineapple filling though...urrrrgh.

Date: 2010-08-17 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 1girl.livejournal.com
Surprise! I painted this canned fruit with food coloring instead of just using fresh fruit!

Date: 2010-08-17 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] real-bethy.livejournal.com
This totally belongs in the found_recipes community!

Date: 2010-08-17 02:46 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] jazzybabe56.livejournal.com
everyone in the "olden days" must have been told that natural food needed to be enhanced with something manmade....

and they say that God is in the details.....LOL

Date: 2010-08-17 03:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keristars.livejournal.com
At least it's not the "Semi-homemade" monstrosities that Sandra whatshername makes. Well, actually, this seems exactly like what she makes.

Date: 2010-08-17 04:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com
There is no alcohol mentioned in the recipe.

Date: 2010-08-17 04:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keristars.livejournal.com
Only because they're saving it for the most outrageous cocktails.

Date: 2010-08-17 04:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com
I don't think the crowd pictured in the ad looks like they do much drinking.

Date: 2010-08-17 04:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keristars.livejournal.com
Pfft, they're fancy folks (upper middle or upper class, for sure) in 1947. If it doesn't look like they're drinking, it's because they're not drinking yet.


Speaking of the economic/social status of the folks in the ad, I'd be really bewildered about why they're eating such a thing that seems more appealing to the less affluent (to me), but I've recently started watching Mad Men, and though it's set 13 years later, it helps the ad make sense.

Date: 2010-08-17 12:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] suzycat.livejournal.com
They're permanently drunk and trying to look not-drunk, silly.

Date: 2010-08-17 01:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amelia-eve.livejournal.com
They did not have the same access to non-seasonal foods that we have now. We get tons of fruit shipped in from other climate zones (mostly Chile) so it seems like we can get whatever we want at any time. Preserved fruit was a lot more important then, because you could only get fresh for a few months a year.

Not that any of that excuses this particular recipe.

Date: 2010-08-17 03:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadowturquoise.livejournal.com
I really hate to be the one who says this, but my mother used to make that and I actually loved it. It sounds gross, but I have very fond memories of it - although I haven't thought of it in 40 years.

Date: 2010-08-17 04:21 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] whoseline_wlsc
I like pears, but not with mayo! That makes me more nauseous than I already am, haha.

Date: 2010-08-17 04:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com
All these comments, and no one has mentioned the Kraft Pineapple Cheese Spread in the recipe? I wish it was still around, so I could taste its awfulness.

Date: 2010-08-17 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com
Slightly disappointing. Cream cheese with fruit is so...normal.

I was expecting something in a clear jar, like Kraft Old English or pimiento spreads.

Date: 2010-08-17 01:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gotham-syren.livejournal.com
I just had a flashback to lunches of my childhood. Some experiences are best forgotten.

Date: 2010-08-18 04:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bitterflower.livejournal.com
What a coincidence, I was just grocery shopping at Kroger last night and saw the Pineapple Cheese Spread on the shelf. I backed away from it. ;) I imagine it might taste like "fruit dip" which is just cream cheese, sugar and food coloring.

Date: 2010-08-20 12:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com
I shall investigate. Thanks!

Date: 2010-08-18 04:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bitterflower.livejournal.com
P.S.: I believe it was in the salad dressing aisle.

Date: 2010-08-17 05:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neuralclone.livejournal.com
I think I'll change careers. I want to be a mayonnaise critic from now on!

(Wha'd'ya mean, it's not a valid career choice? ;-)

Date: 2010-08-17 09:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brinylon.livejournal.com
CANNED pears with mayo, yuuuuuurgh :/

Date: 2010-08-17 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chicklet-girl.livejournal.com
Worst. Chopped. Ever. [/Comic-Book Guy]

Date: 2010-08-18 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slvrymoon.livejournal.com
I forgot that mayo used to have to be made by hand. lol!

Date: 2010-08-19 12:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vix.livejournal.com
My boyfriend looked over my shoulder as I was reading this and he intoned solemnly "Kraft Mayonnaise: Because You Have Nowhere Else To Go".

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