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!
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