This:
And this:
And it’s not just that the images themselves are shocking, it’s also that the practices they depict, namely extreme sideways coiffery and kebabanibalism, weren’t just legal back then; they were actively encouraged!
The real sociological insight for me, though, comes from the way that recipe card is introduced: ‘classic adaptation’. Really? Of what? The usual myriad of humdrum man-flesh dishes? ‘Not human again! How passé! Let’s jazz it up by chopping it into bits and threading it onto skewers like they do abroad. Oh, yes, now that’s exotic!’
More insights into the unfathomable workings of the mid-seventies culinary mind here.
Thanks to Dylan for the tip-off.
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I feel obliged to note that sideway coiffery is a problem that still continues to this day. I have protested and thrown my hat at polatitians the world over in order to abate such abuse of folical growth, but in many jurasdictions, there are nay too few laws preventing thus.