The ads for Tuna Helper have shown up in the Sunday stuffer.
And what did Aunt Laurie do pre-Tuna Helper? Well kiddies, you don't remember the pre-Vatican II days, when we did the "no meat today" on every Friday. And during lent, it was no meat on Wed and Fridays. That meant a lot of interesting school lunches, believe me.
Well, not so interesting, since it was the choice between Mac and Cheese and fishsticks. Note that there is now a "Breaded Fish Filet and Mac and Cheese" Marie Callender's dinner. Holy Parochial School!--they have to be selling to the Boomers who are flashing on those too-darn-long-ago days.
If you were really living high on the cod, you were able to cop a Mrs Paul's Fisherman's platter, which did have the aforementioned cod, some odd piece of deviled whatsit, and breaded shrimp. Woo hoo! the gold standard for Lenten fare! Do they make that anymore?
If you were really lucky, you might get the whole basket of shrimp (unlike the plate o' shrimp, thank you "Repo Man" for planting that meme in my brain) dinner, with the cool sauce made of combining tartar sauce and ketchup.
Then there was the fried perch, or if Lent was late that year, fried smelt. That meant the magic chef deep fryer, with the eyes that glowed red when the oil was hot enough. But do the fries first, okay?
Personally, I think Tuna Helper just ruins the whole thing--there are a lot of kids out there who aren't getting an honest helping of Mazola in their daily diet, due to Tuna Helper and its little friends....
Posted by lsefton at February 15, 2004 11:56 AM