My mother was a great cook, and frugal . One day you might have a roast ham. The next day, dinner would be ham slices. And on the third day, you would walk into the kitchen and find out you were having “Polynesian Delight.” That meant all the scrabbly bits of leftover ham held together by some culinary alchemy (probably Miracle Whip) and topped with a canned pineapple ring.
My mother was not alone in rebranding yesterday’s dinner. A short survey of some of my friends revealed there were several ways our moms did this.
One was geographic: using names of exotic locales to make the dish seem more attractive (hence Polynesia).
Even better was to throw in a few foreign words, preferably French. The use of “à la” or “avec” helped put a whole lot of lipstick on the pig, er, last night’s pork chops.
One friend’s mother used to employ the family’s last name to great effect: “Tonight we are having Noodles Arnott!”
Or snazzy catch phrases were invented to tempt people to the table. One mom used to announce a “Refrigerator Round-up” every Thursday night. Yee haw, pardners ! That’s some good, albeit familiar, grub!
A co-worker remembers that when supplies got low at the cottage, her mother would put together something called Beans Mambo (canned baked beans plus stewed tomatoes). Pure genius !
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