Weight Watchers diet card circa 1974

Wendy McClure of Candy Boots discovered a treasure trove of hideously revolting diet dishes - published by Weight Watchers in the 1970s. Her commentary accompanying the recipes is a hoot. Here's the description of the recipe card pictured above. "They call this "onion sauce" but it looks more like the end of a snuff film to me. Yep. Fish snuff. Die, fish, die."

Here's the story behind the cards.

[From Candy Boots]:

I found them while helping my parents clean out their basement a few years ago. They were neatly arranged in their own plastic file box. Plenty of the dishes seemed normal enough, but as I flipped through them, some of the recipes began to alarm me....None of them have calorie or nutrition information of any kind, and in some instances it's hard to tell what's dietetic about the recipes at all, except that they're unspeakably grim. And yet also, completely insane. They appear to be from a much kookier era of Weight Watchers. There's a certain serve-it-at- your-next-key-party freakiness to a lot of these dishes.