Here's the backstory:
One Saturday night, Jon and I were driving around searching for Sopranos locations (P.S. They tore down Satriale's!), and we somehow came up with the brilliant idea of combining words describing sadness with the names of different foods. I think it started with "depretzel" and then just went on from there. The formula is to start with a word describing some sort of sadness and to end with a food. Here's what we have so far:
depretzels (depressed + pretzels)
melancholyflower (melancholy + cauliflower)
blue berries (blue + blueberries)
ennui sausage (ennui + anduoille sausage)
glum pudding (glum + plum pudding) from reader Lorraine
it's all in your head of lettuce (it's all in your head + head of lettuce)
malaise-onnaise (malaise + mayonnaise)
New: dismallows (dismal + marshmallows) from reader Laurel
New: watermeloncholia (watermelon + melancholia) from reader Lorraine
Anybody got an addition to the list?








despairrots (despair + carrots)
miso-ry soup (miso soup)
PAINut bitter SADwich
cries pudding (cries + rice pudding)
cryin' berries (cranberries, with a southern accent)
love your recipes! Can't think of a better topic for a blog :)
Posted by: Sandra @ The Memory Workshop | August 09, 2008 at 06:19 PM
Hi, Sandra. Awesome entries! I'm definitely adding these to the list. Thanks for stopping by!
Posted by: Oatmeal Cookie Guy | August 09, 2008 at 07:08 PM