Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> "Ms P" > wrote:
>
>>> This, plus your shoemaker references make me think that you are
>>> quite elderly and/or haven't kept up with the times. Betty Crocker
>>> cookbooks are rather old-fashioned and have recipes that are more
>>> time-consuming than what people want today. They were en vogue from
>>> the 1920's to perhaps the 1970's - every housewife had that
>>> ubiquitous red-and-white checkered cookbook on the shelf.
>>
>> Betty Crocker cook books are not red and white checkered.
>>
>> Ms P
>
> Really old ones are. I should know. I have my moms.

Naw, the old ones (from the 1950's) are plain red, not checkered.

Jill