Get Cracking-What Was It About EGGS in the Seventies?

Have you ever noticed how obsessed people were in the seventies with eggs? No, not scrambled and over-easy, but the shape. Look at these seemingly unrelated things and how they all somehow involved the shape of an egg.  Mork from Ork, played by lovable Robin Williams hatched out of space egg. People decided for some reason that those flat pantyhose packages just weren't cutting it and thought it would be smarter to package them into egg-shaped dome, like  "L'Eggs".   As if that weren't enough, they also though that sitting in an egg would be interesting, hence the "egg-chair" was born. Remember that scene from the movie "Dazed and Confused" where those kids are sitting in an egg-chair?  Perhaps this is a mystery that will never be explained, but it is rather puzzling.

Fon-do, Fun-don't!

 Remember fondue parties?  Everyone gathered around a usually lime green-colored pot filled with hot oil or cheese with those rather dangerous-looking little wooden-handled forks with the different colors on the ends (so you know which one is yours-how clever!). The whole thing more closely resembled some sort of tribal ritual rather than a meal! You almost expect to see shrunken heads somewhere in the picture!  When you think about it, fondue was not really the most hygienic way to eat-all those forks that had been in other people's mouths in the same pot, I know the stuff was hot but still...ewwww.   The other thing about a fondue party is that it was not a place you could go to expect a filling meal.  All those little dice-sized pieces couldn't fill anyone, what was it with the seventies and small food-remember melon balls?  It's like someone said, "Let's take all the things we usually eat and shrink them!" How do you think those pieces of meat and veggies got so tiny?  The answer: YOU + a Knife + hours of work= fondue party! So the idea that fondue was somehow a quick and easy meal is very misleading, no wonder they haven't really made a comeback, other than the chocolate dipped strawberries kind!

Macrame- They used it for everything!

 

Ah, Macrame!

Who can forget those ropey little knot designs

that just seemed to find their way into everything?  Macrame was like a multipurpose material of the day that could be used for making anything really. Check out the picture on the left-"disco macrame" LOL, gotta love it!

The picture on the right reminds me of my nursery school teachers from back then, two Scottish ladies.
But look at those wall hangings in the background, I remember my mother having stuff like that.  It's like someone skinned Chewbacca and hung his hide on the wall!  Of course there were the owls too, and the poodle dog face, we had all of those in various sizes.  I can't imagine wearing macrame myself, it would make me feel like a plant hanger!  But people made tops(like the disco girls), belts, purses and even shoes out of it just the same. Macrame wasn't just a past-time for little old ladies either, I can recall my teenaged sister making stuff with it in the late 70s, it was a craft for every age it seemed. I wonder if it will ever come back one day?