For a festive traditional look, mound the Cream Cheese Spread (cream cheese, mayo, walnuts, and pineapple) into a wreath.
This (like all the dips in the ad) resembles cat puke mounded into a festive shape, but the garnish really does sell the look as well as anything could. I just wish the decorating instructions were included! I can't tell what kind of leaves they are. Basil maybe? I'm not sure about the berries either. White grapes and canned cherries? Various shades of gooseberries?
If your favorite decoration is the Christmas tree, there's Ham Spread with Cloves (ham, mayo, eggs, relish, onion, cloves).
At least I'm pretty sure the garnish here is parsley and cherry tomatoes, though the patchy parsley makes this look more like a blobby alien quickly trying to grow a plant-like covering so no one will realize it's an impostor than an actual tree.
The Liverwurst Spread (liverwurst, cottage cheese, mayo, relish, onion, Worcestershire) does better to with the garnish placement.
The bell has some rough bell equivalent to a mullet hairdo: business on top, party on the bottom.
And if you are sick of cliché holiday shapes, go for Cheddar Cheese Spread with Sherry (cheddar, mayo, sherry).
Corn chips (and a green pepper wing) turn that pile into a festive, self-dipping chicken. Make this one as a special dip Christmas eve night to remind yourself that the kiddies will wake you up long before a rooster would normally crow....
Happy pre-holiday weekend! Now get out there and play with your food.
The Frito feathers work a lot better than I'd have thought. It almost makes up for the fact that it isn't chicken, pulverized and diluted with mayonnaise, and then molded back into the shape of the bird from whence it came.
ReplyDeleteGood call! A chicken-shaped chicken dip would have been perfect.
DeleteThat is a good question about what leaves were used on the wreath. It's hard to imagine any leaves darker than iceberg lettuce were available fresh in the grocery store in the 1960's. Maybe I'm skeptical due to the crappy grocery stores we went to in the 1980's...
ReplyDeleteThis looks a bit like lamb's lettuce?
DeleteThat could be. The pictures of lamb's lettuce I found do resemble it more than they do iceberg.
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