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Dinner With Hitchcock
Posted by Lidian on August 6, 2008
The ducks will have their revenge. The ducks are angry. And they are clever enough to hatch a little plot to show the sportsmen the errors of their ways. A tasty game feast indeed!
Try eating your dinner with this avenging bird looming just over your plate! Can’t be done. Mission accomplished, ducks. Here we have a Sportsmans’ Dinner from a 1960 Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. The sportsmen seem to have spilled cigarette ash all over the table. And the duck is also not pleased with that.
I don’t think I could concentrate or even drink a glass of water with that duck glaring at me, could you?
Alfred Hitchcock is probably giving this dinner. It is a prequel to The Birds (1963), of course. Next time he had better serve that quiche of his.
emjoi said
That’s not a couple of marijuana joints sitting in the ashtray there, is it?
Essential to relax a man after a hard day killing animals.
Amy said
mmm I was wondering why there seems to be ash on the table….
Bill said
Cigarette ash, huh? I was afraid the bird was molting…or, worse, dropping lice all over the table.
This ad is really creepy. I think I’d say “No dinner for me…I’ll skip straight to the smokes. Thanks, but I’ll roll my own.”
Kristie said
This reminds me of a place my grandparents used to always take us to for dinner in the 70s – The Rustic Manor. It was full of all sorts of stuffed animals staring at you while you eat!
We also actually had that plate in my house growing up! It was reserved for the dog to eat off of.
Lois said
Ew, cigarettes on the dinner table? >.< I know it was perfectly acceptable for anyone to smoke anywhere they pleased, but I am grossed out at the very idea of stinky cigarette ashes right next to the food. And who would want a pile of dirt right by their dinner plate?? This picture is downright unappetizing–quite the opposite of what I assume they were trying to convey!