This site has apparently made the rounds, but it is new to me. The caption is "Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974," and that's exactly what it is. "Caucasian Shashlik," "Snappy Mackerel Casserole," and "Frankfurter Spectacular" are a few of the featured items. Wendy McClure of Pound fame (who also has this new book) created the site after finding the cards in her parents' basement.

These cards mystify me. None of them have calorie or nutrition information of any       kind, and in some instances it's hard to tell what's dietetic about the recipes at all, except that they're unspeakably grim. And yet also, completely insane. They appear to be from a much kookier era of Weight Watchers. There's a certain serve-it-at-your-next-key-party freakiness to a lot of these dishes.

Dehydrated onion flakes are in almost everything here. Apparently Weight Watchers dieticians depended heavily on dried onion flakes, and pimientos, too.

They also had a prop department that was clearly out of control. Oh, you'll see.

Do go and see.

Thanks to my co-blogger Julie Smith (no known relation) for the tip.

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