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Think Pink and Don't be Grandma on Retro Tuesday

I was looking through a magazine this morning I hadn't looked at for quite some time. American Home (1948) was very much an interior decorating magazine; from the features to the ads to the projects - All home.

I've always noticed how the pink, aqua and yellow thing seemed to run through entire magazines in the 50's and early 60's but I'd not noticed that this was true of other decades and color schemes, too.

In fact, after this morning I'm beginning to think this
combination was the precursor of pink, aqua and yellow.

In so many ads and features there was a similar color palette; red (geranium red, actually), yellow and a green or blue.

The styles of the rooms were different but the colors
were remarkably consistent.



Page after page... Ad after ad...



And not just ads, and not just kitchens.
Geranium, green, yellow....




The really interesting thing though is this ad.

Totally different. This ad for Cannon Towels was the entire inside front cover and the only thing I saw advertised that was pink. And just look at the message - Don't be Grandma. (Basically.) Be new, be modern...Be... Well, pink. Right? That ad placement had to be the most expensive in the magazine and in full color, too - At a time when many ads were black and white or single color.

It's almost strange if you think about it. All the color palettes in the magazine are amazingly similar except this Cannon ad - even the green is a 'bit' different. Fresher maybe? Bluer... The red is more coral than red.... And the pink. Totally new. Don't be Grandma.

It's the first thing you would see when opening the magazine and even though everything you will see after it is entirely different (Read: old fashioned) you are reminded that you are a modern woman. Don't forget you're different. Pink. Pink. Pink....

Condoms, kitty litter, and spinach dip...

Since my bleeding's down to a wimper I saw what the knife wound looked like last night and it was worse than I thought. Seriously gross and disgusting. What is gone is twice the size I imagined which I suppose explains the four day bleeding fest but at least now I only need Band-aids...

And the condom...

Technically called a finger cot. It keeps the finger dry and keeps pressure on although so much pressure, it's not so much throbbing as detonating.

Since there are so many nerve endings in your fingertips - which by the way have perhaps more nerve receptors than any place on your body - the pain isn't just there but referring all over the whole finger.


And of course what we need after hearing about condoms, knife wounds, and the magnitude of grossiosity that used to be my finger is a recipe.

A major casualty of this whole fa-la-la was my Spinach Dip.

Well, not my Spinach Dip, Knorr's Spinach Dip.

Mine didn't come out pretty like that picture this year for reason's I'll explain in a minute. Every year during Superbowl (and most other get-togethers) I make Knorr's spinach dip and serve it in a round loaf of bread although you don't have to serve it in the bread. This stuff rocks so delicious you could serve it in a litter box and people would eat it.

And I know what you're thinking. NO WAY! That's an exaggeration! But being someone who served a kitty litter cake ....

...in a litter box with a litter scoop I know very well that people will eat directly from a litter box.

Where was I?

1 (10 oz.) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
1 container (16 oz.) sour cream ( I use light)
1 cup Mayonnaise (I use light)
1 package Knorr® Vegetable recipe mix
1 can (8 oz.) water chestnuts, drained and chopped
3 green onions, chopped

Combine all ingredients and chill about 2 hours (I've chilled overnight). Serve with your favorite dippers (I serve with sliced bread, raw veggies and chips).

I love this and so does everyone else. I usually make two recipes-worth because it always goes first. This year I made it but I couldn't really cut things up well (with a knife) so I did all the prep with my Kitchen Ninja.

It would have been fine if I just used it for prep instead of actually mixing and I knew it when I was doing it. My kitchen ninja can crush ice; what made me think I could mix the dip without turning it to pulp...Must have been the blood loss.

So, while the dip tasted as good as ever.... it had an odd pulpous, sodden quality happening that wasn't especially appealing.

Live and learn and may you never have to eat mucilaginous dip...