Can you come up with a meal based on this idea?...

[Phentex]

So I'm doing a countdown to my husband's 50th birthday and I've been making meals (or making them fit into the theme) based on events that happened this day in history. I've tried to stick to 1961 but I've had to veer off a little when nothing too interesting happened. Today in history:

April 25, 1961

Noyce Awarded Patent for "Integrated Circuit"

The U.S. Patent Office issues Robert Noyce a patent for the integrated circuit, starting a long battle with Jack Kilby over who had rights to the patent. Kilby had invented a germanium version of the circuits, while Noyce developed the silicon integrated circuit -- the one that grew to be more accepted. Integrated circuits replace transistors in computers, allowing the machines to be significantly smaller.

Another story: http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Microchips+still+changing+world/4668334/story.html


HELP!

It can be cheesy or hokey or loosely related al a Kevin Bacon.

Thanks.

[Lucinda]

1. Hmmm

LOOK Magazine printed an article on carribean food on that date.
http://2neat.com/magazines/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_31&products_id=836

Foods containing silicon:
http://www.ehow.com/about_5449447_foods-contain-silicon.html
http://www.articlealley.com/article_131521_17.html


I'm stumped otherwise lol

[Phentex]

4. Well, who knew?...

I didn't like the sound of "Foods containing silicon" lol but I can do something with apples and maybe play on Apple as well. ;)

Thanks!

[Lucinda]

6. You're very welcome!

Love the idea. Hope it's a great meal. :)

[Vinca]

2. The opener must be a Jello "salad."

One of those horrid concoctions created with a can of mixed fruit or pineapple and some maraschino cherries. My miserable stepmother used to add a dollop of a mayo/Cool Whip mixture on the side. Yecccchhh!

[Phentex]

5. Would you believe...

he told me his grandmother used to make the jello with fruit cocktail in it and he always thought it was special? I DO have some leftover pineapple and I usually have a jar of cherries in the fridge for ice cream sundaes. I can pick up jello at the store. The last time I made just plain jello, the kids thought it WAS THE BEST DAY EVER. I guess I don't make it very often. :)

Thanks!

[grasswire]

10. my former neighbor made a salad with lime jell-o, avocado chunks..

....pineapple, and mayo mixed into the shebang. Wow, that was a humdinger.

[Vinca]

12. LOL - avocado was way too foreign for my stepmother.

She did, however, have a way with miniature marshmallows.:rofl:

[Blues Heron]

3. lets see....

How about a square quiche with an integrated circuit pattern on top, woven out of bacon strips?

[Lucinda]

7. Niiiice!

:toast:

[Phentex]

8. Anything with bacon is good!...

what the heck does an integrated circuit pattern look like? Off to google I go!

Thank you! :hi:

[Warpy]

9. A pound cake frosted to look like a minidip IC is all I got.

Anything with bacon is good, especially if the bacon is on top and especially obvious.

[trud]

11. what's not to like?

[trud]

13. actually, I forgot

no Jello for me, it's not vegetarian, darn.

[Phentex]

14. the first and third look okay...

I cannot figure out what is IN that second one! :scared:

[trud]

15. olives, celery, pineapple, shredded cabbage, plus? n/t

[Phentex]

16. why?????

for the love of jello - WHY????? WHY????


:rofl:

[trud]

17. that and a tuna casserole and you're good to go :-) n/t

[trud]

19. apparently not pineapple, but tuna

[Duer 157099]

18. Saltines with cheeze whiz in a circuit pattern

can even dye the crackers green