# Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158 "2007-03-23T11:54:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/1 "2007-03-23T11:54:09Z")
[Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974](http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html) After doing a search (I couldn’t believe nobody had dedicated a thread to them before) I decided to share with you folks the glory that is weight watchers cards from the 70’s In summary, extremely bizarre foods combined with 70’s high-saturation photography and disgusting table cloths leaves you pretty disgusted… I think my favorite is the “Chilled Celery Log” [http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/celerylog.html](http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/celerylog.html) Lucky guy, really. He finds some weight-watchers cards, puts them on the net, and ends up with a book deal! ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/2 "2007-03-23T12:22:19Z")
Dear Og, my stomach hurts and my co-workers think I’m insane… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/3 "2007-03-23T12:25:23Z")
I actually own TWO sets of these. Fun stuff. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/4 "2007-03-23T12:28:39Z")
It’s a rip-off of James Lileks, but funny nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/5 "2007-03-23T12:47:59Z")
I’m sitting here with tear streaks on my face, that made me laugh so hard. I just knew my decision to avoid WW was right. > [@candyboots](#): > > Mexican food is easy to make! All you need is toast and quotation marks! 😃 And what’s the obsession with mackerel? Perhaps I’m happier not having to know. ---
**Author:** ![PerditaX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@PerditaX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerditaX)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/6 "2007-03-23T13:25:28Z")
[QUOTE=Unauthorized Cinnamon] And what’s the obsession with mackerel? Perhaps I’m happier not having to know. [/QUOTE] Back in the day, the WW plan required that you eat fish **five times** a week! :eek: I imagine after awhile you’d be pretty darned desperate for new ways to cook fish. Maybe even desperate enough to try _those!_😃 [Cite!](http://www.dwlz.com/WWinfo/old1972ww.html) BTW, WW is nothing like that now! I’ve lost nearly 30 lbs this time around, eating “normal” food and not feeling deprived at all! Of course, YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/7 "2007-03-23T13:33:35Z")
Five servings of fish per week, and at least one serving of liver. Ugh. But that was the WW of the 1970s. Thirty years later, it’s quite a different, and better diet plan. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/8 "2007-03-23T13:36:55Z")
[QUOTE=PerditaX] Back in the day, the WW plan required that you eat fish **five times** a week! :eek: I imagine after awhile you’d be pretty darned desperate for new ways to cook fish. Maybe even desperate enough to try _those!_😃 [Cite!](http://www.dwlz.com/WWinfo/old1972ww.html) BTW, WW is nothing like that now! I’ve lost nearly 30 lbs this time around, eating “normal” food and not feeling deprived at all! Of course, YMMV. [/QUOTE] Heh, and liver once a week. They say any type of liver is OK. I’d go for the Foie Gras if it was me. It’s a diet food. ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/9 "2007-03-23T13:37:55Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] It’s a rip-off of James Lileks, but funny nonetheless. [/QUOTE] It’s like a ripoff only funnier. ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/10 "2007-03-23T15:06:58Z")
I suppose the plan was to help you lose weight by making you lose your appetite first… ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/11 "2007-03-23T15:30:19Z")
I love those! When my mom started Weight Watchers a few weeks ago, she asked me to send her recipes - I sent her a link to those as a joke. I also sent her plenty of legitimate recipes too! ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/12 "2007-03-23T15:37:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by [Inspiration Soup](http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/inspirationsoup.html) > > The Soup is Inspiration. The Soup is Love. Smell the Soup. > > When one first arrives here one may believe the Soup tastes like ass. That is not so, my child. The Soup is Inspiration and the Soup is Love. Your name is now “Harmonia.” The Soup is Inspiration, and you do not want to leave. The Soup is Love, and we have an electrified fence. The Soup is Inspiration. And the Soup is Love. I think I burned off 500 calories from laughing alone. ---
**Author:** ![2pelo\_honey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/ecb155/32.png) [@2pelo\_honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2pelo_honey)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/13 "2007-03-23T16:13:27Z")
Man, I LOVE sites like these!!! Has anyone ever done a thread on the 10 Worst Album Covers (pts 1 & 2) on here? I don’t think I can do a search, as a guest… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/14 "2007-03-23T16:22:39Z")
[QUOTE=Merkwurdigliebe] Lucky guy, really. He finds some weight-watchers cards, puts them on the net, and ends up with a book deal! [/QUOTE] Actually, it’s a girl, Wendy Mclure. I’ve read her momoir, I Am Not The New Me, and liked it. She also has a blog, [http://www.poundy.com/](http://www.poundy.com/), which is pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/15 "2007-03-23T16:28:48Z")
You can also get these in book form, in [The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan](http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Mackerel-Pudding-Plan-Classic/dp/159448208X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-6630764-8416859?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174667214&sr=8-1). I have it, and it’s full of funny stuff! And for those who like James Lileks’ Gallery of Regrettable Food, there’s going to be a sequel out later this year. Edit: Ah, I see somebody already mentioned the book. Never mind. But it’s still funny. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-recipe-cards-from-1974/397158/16 "2007-03-23T18:59:04Z")
I remember being first shown this website about three years ago when I went to work as a data entry temp with the company that I mom worked for. One of the engineers was always showing me kooky stuff like this. It still makes me giggle out loud any time I read those recipe card comments.