This great, world-wide-inter-web (as certain people's grandparents call it) is rife with information. From the most trivial, banal studies about random (or are they) occurrences to globally significant issues that affect each of our lives, you could literally waste away (and from what I understand, people have) going from link to link.
My mother in law (whom I love dearly) once told me, "I never know how I got where I got--I'll start looking for something very specific, and the next thing I know, I've forgotten what it was I was looking for in the first place."
Well, one of my personal favorite sites on the web (of which I was reminded last night) is Candyboots (fka Pound), one woman's compilation of Weight Watcher's cards from 1974.
Some shining examples of the wretched food the poor people trying to lose weight were offered include:
- Fluffy Mackerel Pudding
- Rosy Perfection Salad - this is basically jellied red cabbage. Ick.
- Liver Pate en Masque - yeah, this doesn't sound that bad. Click through and look at the picture. Seriously.
And they wonder why the cocaine epidemic was so bad in the late '70s and '80s.