robison@eosp1.UUCP (01/19/84)
In fact, if you are fed up with the fast food chains, why not learn to cook fast food yourself (e.g., a hamburger that tastes like MacDonalds but is just the way you like it). I believe there is an excellent cookbook with "fast food" (and other "workalike" commercial food) recipes, that was published about 1980. It may even tell you how to bake a SaraLee-like cake. Has anybody out there used it? - Toby Robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison or: allegra!eosp1!robison (maybe: princeton!eosp1!robison)
walsh@ihuxi.UUCP (01/19/84)
Re: Toby's query about cook-it-yourself fast food: When I was laid up on the hospital in 1981 with nothing better to do, I saw a woman on Donahue's show who spent all her time finding recipes that mimicked commercial food. She demonstrated phony Kentucky Fried chicken, bogus Twinkies and other things I can't recall. I wrote down the Kentucky chicken one and tried it later when recovering at home. It was awful. Nothing like the original. It had weird ingredients like Italian Seasons salad dressing mix, so I should have been suspicious, but she had given samples to the audience and they SAID it was good (maybe they really didn't like it). She had a cookbook, but after trying her chicken I wouldn't be interested. Nothing beats the original! B. Walsh