Last week everyone went completely bonkers for both the premiere of Feud: Bette & Joan and for Joan Crawford’s Danti-Chips, so I decided to make a dish for episode 2!
Here is one of Joan’s favorite recipes, originally published in a 1928 article titled “Soup, Salad and Dessert: They Make or Mar the Meal” from an issue of Photoplay Magazine.
Check it:
…once in a while, being only human, Joan forgets all about her careful diet, as witness her recipe for French Banana Salad…
I don’t know how bananas, peanuts, mayo and lettuce read as FRENCH, but as I established with her Danti-Chips, I’m not gonna question Ms. Crawford.
Because she will cut a bitch.
So here it is–if you dare–Joan’s French Banana Salad…
Honestly, I don’t know what the fuck this is.
I mean, it’s banana and mayo and peanuts and lettuce, but REAL TALK! You’re gonna tell me that THIS is what Joan Crawford ate when she went against her careful diet? A banana with mayo and peanuts? Not ice cream? Cake? Pie?
Yeah, this is how I felt about this shit:
It was wrong. All kinds of wrong.
The succession of flavor was as such:
- Peanut
- Mayo
- Banana
- & peanut again
That ain’t good. I am completely befuddled.
Even though this was–like I said, I don’t know what the fuck this is–my goal is to make a Bette/Joan-related dish for every episode of this series. So keep your Sundays open. But! There are some big changes coming up at DiS HQ–which I will tell you all about very soon! So if I fail, don’t hate me.
OK, kittens–ready for episode two?
Here’s the trailer!
Enjoy tonight’s show! Tomorrow let’s have a chat over on the Facebook Page!
Cheers!
Her recipes you have shared all seem very strange. Maybe she was smoking pot as well as drinking?
Joan was a strange lady.
Maybe she ate it because it was so bad it would put her back on track.
You darling! Competition coming soon!
I’m ready!
Ooh, actually, we could run it together – for your readers and mine – whaddya say? x
Sure! Join in on the fun!
At some point today I am going to put a big photo of your book and a link on the sidebar there.
I want your sales to go up up up!!!
I cannot WAIT to watch Feud. I am hoping I will have time tomorrow night for the first episode. I actually LIKED Joan’s French Banana Salad http://www.silverscreensuppers.com/joan-crawford/joan-crawfords-french-banana-salad – and you have given me an idea. I’m going to run a little competition over at SSS for a copy of the Joan Crawford Cookbook…
Jx
Yes! Totally run a little competition. Share the deets and I’ll spread the word 🙂
Do you remember the banana salad they’d sometimes serve in the TickTock Shoppe?
I do not. Was it similar to this?
I just watched episode one and I am in love. However, Miss Joan’s bananas leave me cold. I am fairly sure that she added TONS of liquor to this dish and didn’t tell anyone.
Where would you add the booze? Or do you think she was just really drunk before she thought this was a good idea?