Saturday Night Special BTA: Sausage For Dinner
August 28th, 2010
“At least, I think it’s a sausage. This is my mother and two of her sisters-in-law. My dad is taking the picture, and it looks like they are competing for his attention each in her own way.”
(submitted by Blueberry)
So…this is what Bachelorette Parties in 1952 were like ? Nice
“Emma demonstrates to her unmarried sisters the method she used to land a husband.”
WIN!!!
I love this pic! Nostalgia + humor can’t be beat.
Blueberry, can you please tell me who the woman on the right is? She looks like my Grandmother!! Seriously! It was quite a shock to see her. Thank you!
I hadn’t planned on getting in the thread at all but I have been loving reading the comments!! Just wanted to assure beckipaul that the woman on the right was childless, so not her Grandmother.
As for the meat vs veg controversy, I guess it really could be either one (with equal humor). A color picture would have solved it!
I absolutely love this picture, thank you. Please please please…which lady is your mom?
She’s the one on the left
stealing the show.
Did someone call for a sausage party?
Wow people had “humor” all the way back before God invented color…shock…
Could be a still from the original “Real Housewives of New Jersey” circa 1957. The big guys always remake the good TV shows.
And we do grow zucchini that big here.
That sausage is made of human souls.
This is not what comes to mind when I think of threesomes.
Your Mom is an awesome woman, I bet your Dad loves her very much and very often.
Maybe I should show this to my mom. She’s from around the same era as these ladies, but I’ll never forget her asking me when the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal broke, “Jennifer, did you know that people DID such a thing?”. I do believe she still thinks it to be some shocking modern invention.
I love it! They look like fun folks to hang out with.
Here it is, proof that there are 2 ways to a mans heart.
*dies* hahaha
Love this!!! Not only do I love this picture, but I love the name of the daughter who submitted it! Blueberry is probably the coolest name of a submitter on here!
No wonder they never showed June Cleaver having friends over.
LMAO!
I’m just wondering where this is because I wish I had a house that had ceilings that high.
“. . and that’s where babies come from.”
No, that’s where fine jewelry comes from!
I almost snorted Diet Coke out my nose, having read “…each in her own way,” and then scanning left to right across the picture – hysterical!!!
Well, at least we now have documented evidence of what the moms did while the husbands were off to war.
It’s her grip that’s kind of scaring me…. Just saying…
It was taken in the days before infomercials sold us zucchini/squash knives. In those days the vegetables had to be chewed before cooking.
I want that coffee grinder on the shelf at the left!
If mom’s not the one about to…um, chow down, then she married into one heck of a family.
This could be the dirtiest old photo I’ve ever seen.
I was thinking the same thing! I think I blushed!!
I never sausage a thing!
Oh. Too good. That’s the best comment here. Ahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Excellent.
Awesome! Celeste, you should write captions!
*Insert punchline-drum ending and canned applause here*
I think it’s actually two cucumbers or zucchini held together to look like one.
. . . and that’s where babies come from.
Think again.
Note she doesn’t say which lady is her mother. It’s either the lady with the sausage/zucchini, or she has one wacky aunt in the family. And she refers to both as mom’s ‘sisters in law’…it’s a possibility.
How did they ever get anything done in those tiny kitchens?
Wow….Where did you get this picture of Linda Lovelace’s Mom ???
Kinky.
“Sport, why don’t you run along and play in the yard, I’ve got something to discuss with these ladies ‘in private’ “
What’s not to love about this picture? Look up “awesome” in the dictionary and this is the illustration. I do agree that it’s a cucumber or squash instead of sausage, though.
I bet Mom and Dad were VERY happily married!! :- )
Or the door to door salesmen kept returning again and again, day after day, for some reason.
Does she have a complete set of Fuller brushes and/ or a Kirby vacuum cleaner with all of the attachments?
Winner!
Bite the big one.
Oh yeah, mom wins.
Looks like a large squash or zucchini to me. I think their minds were in the gutter!
Oh my….I have no words for this one…
Mom with giant sausage and the sister grabbing the other sister’s butt? awkward
I love the little ruffled ‘skirts’ on the shelves, yet no curtains on the window!
AWESOME! <3 it!!!!
Good Old Fashioned FUN! This picture is truly a blast from the past and the corny things people did back in the old days! Thanks for sharing this picture.. love it!
Um… how come I don’t have any pictures of my mom or grandma doing anything ‘corny’ like this? I think this mom’s humor was ahead of her time.
Aubs, your female ancestors were either more discreet or classier than women who open wide for phallic-looking objects.
This picture could totally be my late grandmother and a couple of her sisters. When they talked amongst themselves, their humor could be a little raw and you heard things you never wanted to hear coming from your lovable cuddly grandma.
For fellow vintage lovers, it was interesting to learn that they (my grandma and grand-aunts) sometimes “lost their drawers under the rumble seat” when they dated boys with cars. Scandalous!
Yeah, in my family you would’ve probably had to apologize to the vegetable for embarrassing it like that. Sigh….
I’m not even sure that was invented back then… LOL
How can you not be awesomed by this?
I love this: it satisfies the awkward criterion and is hysterically funny too!
That is freeeaakin fan-tas-tic!
OH MY!!!!
Besides the silliness (are you sure that’s a sausage? It looks like a zucchini to me.), this is just an amazing trip back in time. Look at the pitchers, the vases, the kitchen cabinets, the little ruffles on the shelves — and the ladies’ dresses! Oh my goodness!
This one isn’t so much awkwardness as it is people clowning for the camera, but I’m so glad you posted this little retro moment.
Nice of you to comment that, while you enjoy the nostalgia of it, you don’t think the photo is awkward. Why is that necessary?
Well, on a site entitled “Awkward Family Photos,” one would assume an aim for awkwardness, so I commented on the lack thereof, even though I still think it is both a fun and funny photo and I enjoyed it.
Now as your question contains a pronoun with an ambiguous antecedant, I do not know if you are asking whether the awkwardness is necessary in my opinion or the commenting, so I will now…. uh, COMMENT on the commenting. Obviously, commenting is not strictly necessary, but it’s more interesting when we all share. This is one reason why, my dear little critic who leaves no website, people LIKE blogs.
Now I hope I have answered your questions. In the future, it might help if you asked them more clearly.
My question was not asked clearly. The photo is not sufficiently awkward to grace this site. You are clearly the superior critic.
Wow! if I’m not mistaken, this conversation is a little awkward.
No, but I am an English teacher.
I agree with Paperback Writer!! Also, I believe that pronouns with ambiguous antecedants cause more communication problems than all other grammatical errors (or ambiguities) combined. And as far as the usage of the word “necessary” by Critic… is anything on this blog really necessary??
Lighten up, Francis.
Dear Paperback Writer,
Do you regularly invite your family to your home to share a meal and celebrate Thanksgiving? Happy Holidays!
Oh no, careful- don’t upset Marnie!
I will no longer defend those photos deemed “not awkward” by the pompous, paperback-writing blowhards of the world.
It was a futile crusade, and I have grown weary.
Don’t you think the sexual innuendo awkward, something that perhaps was not intended from a more innocent age?
There’s no such thing as a “more innocent age”. They were just as much in on the joke then as we are now.
And yes, I find this photo enjoyably awkward precisely because I’m sure they’re all in on the joke.
LOL Innocent?
The only person this is really awkward for are the kids of the people in it, because peoples parents can’t crack sex jokes.
I’ve never understood why every generation thinks they invented sex, sexual innuendo and all the associated jokes. The older generations just had more class than to use them everywhere and used real live wit the rest of the time.
I find it quite ironic that the self-righteous English teacher misspelled “antecedent.”
…but maybe that’s just me.
..She didn’t
She spelled it properly, if you’d care to check again
FABULOUS!!!
Agree completely. This photo of women mugging for the camera is not awkward, but it is a great trip down memory lane.
Wow, did anybody else just feel the fun get sucked out of this photo?!? (no pun intended…)
This conversation is ridiculous to me. For those of you too dense to understand – the awkwardness is in a wife trying to get her husband’s attention any a fairly suggestive manner in front of his sisters. Awkward!!!
Woah, Hazel, watch it with the teeth.
Winner!
Whoops!!! I thought you said “weiner”! That was awkward…
I don’t think I can beat, “At least I think it’s a sausage.”
You have to be impressed by her optimism, though.
I think this is the best picture I’ve ever seen on here
Fantastic!