Follies of the Madmen #272

Please spend half a minute to contemplate the subtext of this imagery. A pagan housewife (prefiguring BEWITCHED?) performs black magic to seduce and beguile a priest, with hubby nowhere in sight. Happens in 1950s suburbia every Sunday.

Original ad here.

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Comments

I don't use tomato sauce on pot roast myself, but lots of people do. It was standard practice for parishioners to invite the preacher to Sunday dinner so I think that's what the ad is about.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/17/16 at 09:33 AM

Or, she could be trying to seduce him away from their 10yo son.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/17/16 at 09:40 AM

I don't see a problem with this advert. It is very mild by todays standards, What pray tell is wrong with it?

Posted by belasarius on 01/17/16 at 10:44 AM

Belasarius--I don't label the ad "wrong," just "quirky." The trope of housewife as witch seducing a priest with carnal pleasures reveals 1950s attitudes in a rather Freudian fashion. All in a food ad!

Posted by Paul on 01/17/16 at 01:23 PM

I like Hunts better than Contadina. I know some put it on top of a meatloaf but I never have.
We men know all women are able to seduce us with their evil ways.

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 01/17/16 at 01:38 PM

I use ketchup on and in meatloaf. I have had your meatloaf honey and its good!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/17/16 at 03:25 PM

As a ordained minister/priest/holy man/shaman in the Universal Life Church I have been seduced by ladies many times with a good meal. Desert is always the best part.

Posted by Gator Guy on 01/17/16 at 06:57 PM

Very true!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/17/16 at 10:09 PM

Besides pagan black magic, that housewife also has astrology going for her. The recipe begins "You'll thank your lucky stars..."

Posted by Fritz G on 01/18/16 at 08:39 AM

On meatloaf, yeah, I can see that. But on a roast? Doesn't that make the crust all soggy?

Posted by Richard Bos on 01/18/16 at 04:48 PM

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