Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Good God! That's disgusting!

Here's the thing. I've noticed that gmail reads your email and suggests websites based on keywords from the text. This is somewhat disturbing, but it's not like I expected email to be private anyhow. As I see it, Google's just being up-front about it. But today I was deleting the spam and on the same page was a link to the following recipe. Now, being a food-whore, they had me at "recipe." But seriously, in what way does this qualify as a recipe? Check it out:

Title: FRENCH FRY SPAM CASSEROLE
Categories: Main dish
Yield: 8 servings

1 pk Frozen french fry potatoes,
-thawed (20 oz)
2 c Shredded Cheddar cheese
2 c Sour cream
1 cn Condensed cream of chicken
-soup (10 3/4 oz)
1 cn SPAM Luncheon Meat, cubed
-(12 oz)
1/2 c Chopped red bell pepper
1/2 c Chopped green onion
1/2 c Finely crushed corn flakes

Heat oven to 350'F. In large bowl, combine potatoes, cheese, sour
cream, and soup. Stir in SPAM, bell pepper, and green onion. Spoon
into 13x9" baking dish. Sprinkle with crushed flakes. Bake 30-40
minutes or until thoroughly heated.

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Why does the recipe even bother with splitting up the mixing of the ingredients? The only reason I can think of is that it makes it seem like you're doing some real work. Seriously, the sodium content alone is probably enough to kill you. Now, to be honest, there is a part of me that finds this recipe appealing, but that's the part of me that lives in a trailer, wears curlers and a house dress and partakes of chawin' tabacky.

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