impulsive wrote:a can of frosting and a roll of cookie dough. We split the roll in half ate it and chased it frosting and Gatorade.my stomach hurts just from reading that
It was either that or some fruit. Who buys fruit at a gas station?
impulsive wrote:a can of frosting and a roll of cookie dough. We split the roll in half ate it and chased it frosting and Gatorade.my stomach hurts just from reading that
It was either that or some fruit. Who buys fruit at a gas station?
Woody wrote: Paper knife commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxcQRFBkeRw And...it was already so well known that Frank Zappa was ragging on the idea when he recorded *Flakes* on January 25, 1978 (right around the three minute mark). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgyeUHH_V0g
Thanks Woody! I don't remember that commercial, but clearly they had tubs o'frosting in the late 70's. I guess my mom just continued to make her own until sometime in the 80's. I remember my sister using tubs o'frosting in the late to mid 80's then and thinking it was a strange new thing. Looks like SWMBO wins this round and that I was wrong about frosting.
For the record, I don't think the tubs taste very good either and that's why I told her next time I made cupcakes I was making my own frosting.
1988RedT2 wrote: I shun the stuff because the real stuff has three ingredients: powdered sugar, butter, and milk. Okay, four if you put vanilla in it. It's pretty easy to make and it tastes great. The canned stuff has a chemistry set in it. Gosh, seems like the canned stuff has been in stores forever, maybe 30 years or so?
The main advantage the canned stuff has is that if you make frosting with butter and milk, you can't have the cake sit on the counter for more than a few days before the frosting starts tasting funny.
Canned cream cheese icing is OK, but the stuff tastes a lot like Crisco compared to homemade buttercream.
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