Comments on: It’s a jolly holiday … with animal products

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:28:30 +0000

The beat goes on at:

http://www.swisscolony.com

It never stopped.

Stuart

By: Lee Rentless

Lee Rentless — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:00:52 +0000

I think the “Big Lebowski Cat” (quotations and capitalization ARE fun) got a solid from Rudolph and his Heavenly Hash. Thank you for braving the estate sale underworld for our amusement and edification!

By: Eartha Kitsch

Eartha Kitsch — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:58:44 +0000

I am SO glad that you posted this catalog. It’s amazing and hilarious and well, outlandish. I would have bought it too. No doubt.

By: vespabelle

vespabelle — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:28:32 +0000

can’t sleep, cyclops candies will eat me!

By: vintage sue

vintage sue — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:49:32 +0000

I can’t decide which is making me more nauseated: the food photos or atrocious 70s marketing grammar-speak. Wait. It’s both.

Thanks for hurling me (literally) back into the 70s…

XOX

By: Xmas w/a K

Xmas w/a K — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:50:24 +0000

Well, I’m partial to those Humbugs - but are the peepers (eyes) edible? Seems like a contemporary choking hazard. I’m off to ride on a delightfully delicious cloud…

By: Bitch On Wheels

Bitch On Wheels — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:01:42 +0000

Hmmmm, you might be onto something there. Perhaps that accounts for the massive quantities of food that could be shipped right to your door and the nonsensical descriptions.

If the Yard Sale Bloodbathsters will permit me to write up another 70s catalog book report, I’ll share a 70s clergy supply catalog found at an estate sale a few years back. All the collars and robes any pious boy or girl could want!

By: Marla

Marla — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:50:12 +0000

I have been lurking, and love your blog. My fondness for old catalogs, amongst other old treasures to be found at Estate Sales knows no bounds. But mainly, I had to chime in about the “solid” flavour - it IS called “Heavenly Hash”, right? I think you just need to pronounce it as “sol - iiiiiiiid”, in a voice slightly raspy with exhalation. Perhaps follow it with a “dude”, or a “man”. Like, “This reindeer stuff is sol-iiiiiid dude - don’t bogart it man!”

By: suzy

suzy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:09:04 +0000

Thanks for that blast from the past! I remember those catalogs well! xo, suzy