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Don’t hold the Mayo!
That Amazing Ingredient: Mayonnaise CPC International 1979 Who thought America needed an entire cookbook devoted to one the major food groups, I mean condiment, in Midwestern culture? It’s just so versatile! Think of the variety: macaroni salad, potato salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, etc. Let’s not forget the sandwich crowd…
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Collection Management and Interlibrary Loan
A submission came in to Awful Library Books recently from a librarian who said they had an interlibrary loan request for an item that they were embarrassed to have in the collection. Rather than fulfill the request, they weeded the item. Plenty of commenters thought that the ILL request should…
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Hotdog Redux
The New Hamburger & Hot Dog Cookbook Roate 1975 Don’t settle for old hamburger and hot dog recipes. It’s time to upgrade to NEW and Improved. Note the awesome 1970s era cover. I was able to name the year of publication with just one glance. Evidently our author is the…
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Hot Guys for the over 40 crowd
God’s Gift Over 100 Studs, Stallions and Dreamboats from the 70s and 80s Cave 2007 Hold on to your hats those of you of a certain age! I will bet you once swooned over these guys. This funny little book is just portraits of the long ago singers and actors.…
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Living the Fallout Life
Fallout Shelter Handbook West 1962 I love Red Scare materials and I am always fascinated by the prospect of supposedly living through nuclear annihilation. Remember, I am from the generation who was told to hide under my desk when the bomb drops, so I could be “safe”. Note the apparent…
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Feline Folly
Test Your Cat’s Personality Sourcebooks 2008 I’m not sure I would need a little quiz to tell me that my cat is a judgmental narcissist, emotionally blackmailing me into buying premium cat food. I also think she is plotting my demise. I honestly think that most cat/human slave relationships are…
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