[Fictionary] RECIPE REDO -- please use MT. HIGH DESSERT instead
Jim Moskowitz
jim at jimmosk.com
Tue May 9 21:29:39 UTC 2023
My deepest apologies, but as soon as entries started to come in I realized I had made a mistake.
I hadn’t originally planned to give you the list of ingredients, since that provides way too strong a constraint and will likely yield a lot of very similar recipes -- and thus be much less fun. I don’t know where my brain was that night, that I ended up including those ingredients.
So I regretfully am withdrawing BEATLE BUN as this round’s topic.
Instead, please submit an entry for what might be on this other index card.
At the top it says: Mt. High Dessert (Gladys)
Then it lists the three ingredients.
Then it gives the instructions, which are somewhere in the vicinity of two dozen words.
Your revised mission is to tell me what those ingredients are, and what you’re supposed to do with them, to make MT. HIGH DESSERT.
The deadline remains Friday May 19th. And special apologies to Eric and Nick, who had already submitted entries for Beatle Bun.
Sheepishly,
Jim
> On May 8, 2023, at 10:14 PM, Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com> wrote:
>
> Since I got six Yes votes and no No ones, I’m going ahead with my variant fictionary round.
>
> There's a photo on the Vintage Recipe Project site of an index (3”x5”) card containing a recipe for something called Beatle Bun, presumably taken from someone’s box of recipes.
> At the top of the card it says: BEATLE BUN Serves 50.
> It lists these ingredients:
> 1-1/2 lbs. Chop-T-Beef
> 1-1/2 lbs. (6 cups) Grated Cheese
> 3-3/4 cups Tomato Paste
> 50 Hamburger Buns split
>
> Your mission is to tell me what is written below those ingredients. As I promised, the instructions are brief, somewhere in the vicinity of three dozen words.
>
> Let’s see if your prowess at imitating how a dictionary entry sounds, carries over to imitating how an old recipe card sounds!
> The deadline for submitting your entires is Friday, May 19th. (I’ll send out a reminder email on the 17th in case you’ve forgotten all about this.)
>
> Happy Fictionary,
> Jim
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