alex51324: dancinbutterfly:nianeyna:soupwife: nianeyna: rhea314:gingerhaze:memewhore:pricklyle
alex51324: dancinbutterfly:nianeyna:soupwife: nianeyna: rhea314: gingerhaze: memewhore: pricklylegs: mudwerks: klappersacks: (via File Photo) WTF are those obelisks on the right?… Tasty obelisk fries.. “It’s digestible” has got to be the laziest goal I’ve ever seen achieved by a food product. “It’s digestible” “It’s digestible” is pertinent!! Okay, for those of you who haven’t researched Crisco for writing fic about gay sex in the mid-late 60s: The first-edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, declared, “Vegetable shortening may be the best lubricant, since it is not only greasy but also digestible”[4] Such a statement perhaps gives new meaning to the companies boastful declarations that “Its digestible” and “Crisco has been making life in the kitchen more delicious for years.” Similarly, in the 1978 sex manual The Advocate Guide to Gay Health, Crisco even earned an entry in the book’s index. Discussions of the shortening’s use as an anal lubricant indicate its popularity, with statements such as: “The lubricant, typically the cultic Crisco, must be copious.”[5] In fact, Crisco was so synonomus with gay sex that discos and bars around the world took on the name, such as Crisco Disco in New York City, which was one of the premiere clubs during the 1970s and early 1980s. Other clubs or bathhouses, such as Club Z in Seattle, even featured murals with Crisco. Thus, Crisco was conversely also one of many things that led to the formation of gay identities during the 20th century. from this essay: http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html The more you know! :D I have learned a new thing today. Love this post for so many reasons but most especially because this is from all the way back in 2012 and and yet not a single blog in this thread is deactivated I enjoy that not only does this have a link to an actual source, but the link still fucking works. but @rhea314 you didnt include a picture of the crisco disco! AND MY GOD THE DJ BOOTH WAS A GIANT CRISCO CAN!Go dance and get fisted. Fucking iconic. Going back up to the 4th reblog, before the Gay Sex Detour, what you have to understand about “it’s digestible!” is that “digestible” didn’t just mean “your body is capable of breaking it down into usable nutrition,” but rather, “easy to digest,” which turn was code for “will not cause (and may even relieve) constipation and/or diarrhea.” And to understand that, you have to understand that people in the mid-19th through early 20th centuries were obsessed with bowel regularity. Which sounds funny, right up until you find out why they were obsessed with that: namely, the vast numbers of babies and small children* who died from illnesses that started with diarrhea**. (*And people in general, really, but babies and small children were especially vulnerable.) (*They feared both constipation and its opposite, because, well, the one often leads to the other. Especially with a child that has not yet achieved bowel control, once things get moving again, the results can be…explosive.) Today, we know that these deaths were the result of unsanitary food and water supplies introducing bacteria/other pathogens into the naïve and un-developed immune system of small child. A tummy-ache caused by over-eating, or eating something unfamiliar, or something that doesn’t agree with you, will not escalate to fatal severity. But they did not know that. (For much of the 19th century, it was impossible to know that, as the role of micro-organisms in causing disease had not been discovered.) To the best of their knowledge, any sort of gastrointestinal disturbance, particularly in a baby or small child, was potentially deadly. As a result, educated and contentious parents were understandably preoccupied with how to provide their children with a diet that would pass easily and uneventfully through the digestive tract. No child-rearing manual was complete without extensive discussion of what foods worked best, and recipe books aimed at the family table would also include such information. But, important as the topic was, it isn’t precisely appetizing. To be blunt, readers of the Women’s Page will want to know that the recipe you are about to present is unlikely to cause their child to shit themselves to death, but they do not want to read that sentence or anything even remotely like it. Some sources used references to “regularity” to get the point across, but “digestible” was an even more delicate euphemism. The Crisco ad above probably post-dates, by several decades, the widespread acceptance of germ theory, when Pasteurization and other public health measures greatly reduced infant and child mortality due to diarrhea. However, by that time, bowel regularity was so well-understood as a key indicator of child health that it stuck around for a couple more generations, along with the associated understanding that a child’s food should, above all, be “digestible.” -- source link