Make a wish! Rather than blowing out the candles to make it come true, though, we're going to see what kind of dressing-related wishes Not for Salads Only... Wish-Bone (1980) imagines people will make on their birthdays.
If you're a grownup, then you might have a dream of mid-20th-century parties serving the popular sandwich loaf. It's vaguely cake-like, so the Birthday Celebration Loaf kind of makes sense.
Whether the birthday person chooses Wish-Bone California Onion, Creamy Italian, or Creamy Garlic Dressing, everybody better really like that flavor, as it permeates the bacon-and-egg salad layers and the cream cheese "icing." Only the liverwurst layer offers relief from all that dressing (but it is also liverwurst, so "relief" is a relative term here).
Kids are apparently also expected to want to have something retro-fancy, so their birthday dinner is this little beauty.
Yep! It's the ever-popular Crown Roast of Franks, because children are well-known for wanting a fancy crown roast for their birthdays, but concerned enough about their parents' budgets to want something a little less pricy.
The crown roast gets filled with that childhood favorite, hot potato salad with celery, onion, caraway seed, and plenty of Wish-Bone Italian Dressing. At least there will be cake and ice cream to fill up on after the crown roast!
My birthday wish would be far simpler: keep the salad dressing as far away from me as possible! (That applies to both my childhood self AND the supposed grownup I am now.)
It's strange to read recipes from before everyone went all in for ranch dressing. There are other dressing flavors? Technically someone must still use the other flavors since the grocery stores still stock them.
ReplyDeleteI feel like the sandwich that looks like a cake should be served with mashed potatoes done up to look like a sundae for maximum disappointment. It would also be maximum carbs which is just as Midwestern as ranch dressing.
Ranch was sold as a mix until the early 1980s since it took a while to figure out how to make something buttermilk-based shelf stable. That's why a bottled dressing wouldn't be in the booklet yet.
DeleteYes-- mashed potatoes with cheese sauce and/or gravy as the sundae sauces. Maybe take a tip from Chef Keith Guerke and throw on some corn sprinkles.