Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

[oliviabenson]

12 hours ago, PradaKitty said:

Jill called it a food sauce competiton. 
Food sauce?!!

Goes great with upstairs attic. Jill is odd.

Edited Sunday at 05:19 PM by oliviabenson

[EmeraldGirl]

I noticed that the clothes Jill is modeling are size large and extra large. Compared to her daughters wearing the size 4, xs/p, etc. She’s not in the 2,3 X’s Yet. But keep eating those sweet potatoes!

[ginger90]

It was “fruit sauce”.

[crazy8s]

10 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

One of them was bright purple. A color not seen in natural food. 🤮

So they like, and use, a product with food dye?? Whatever will they do when that is banned? 😂

reference to rfk jr wanting to ban food dyes

Edited Sunday at 03:32 PM by crazy8s

[crazy8s]

11 hours ago, PradaKitty said:

Jill called it a food sauce competiton. 
Food sauce?!!

From the comments - Heidi won 4th with cranberry/applesauce. It was Jill's "personal favorite" and was "honestly delicious" 😂

[BradandJanet]

12 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

One of them was bright purple. A color not seen in natural food. 🤮

Remember the ghastly purple cakes at Nurie's bridal shower and wedding too (I think)? While the cakes came from the now-forgotten Dinguii, Jill probably keeps a big bottle of Nurie's favorite purple food dye in her pantry in case Princess Nurie comes to visit and wants a purple dessert. 

[crazy8s]

4 minutes ago, BradandJanet said:

Remember the ghastly purple cakes at Nurie's bridal shower and wedding too (I think)? While the cakes came from the now-forgotten Dinguii, Jill probably keeps a big bottle of Nurie's favorite purple food dye in her pantry in case Princess Nurie comes to visit and wants a purple dessert. 

Nurie was the 1st place winner in the grape pie contest a few years back.🙂

[Absolom]

4 hours ago, ginger90 said:

It was “fruit sauce”.

Cousins to applesauce?  I've seen apple and other fruit combinations for sale.

[oliviabenson]

The way Jill talks , her voice just irritates me. I'd rather be deaf than hear Jill talk or sing. 

[LilJen]

19 hours ago, oliviabenson said:

SEVERELY hungry tapeworm or a precious tape worm.

but it CHOSE to fast, it was Such a Godly Tapeworm.

[CalicoKitty]

There are actual newspaper ads from the 1890's that advertise tape worms as a way to lose weight.  I guess worms are better than, say, Lydia Pinkham, which caused many, many women to become alcoholics, or Baby Percy, which was a tonic to put on a baby's gums to soothe teething pain.  My guess is the baby was quiet because of the opium content.  I think Plexus is today's "patent medicine" without the worms, alcohol, or opium.  It promises a lot of "cures, just like old time products.

[farmgal4]

11 hours ago, crazy8s said:

Nurie was the 1st place winner in the grape pie contest a few years back.🙂

But of course she was!

[Chaos Theory]

15 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:

There are actual newspaper ads from the 1890's that advertise tape worms as a way to lose weight.  I guess worms are better than, say, Lydia Pinkham, which caused many, many women to become alcoholics, or Baby Percy, which was a tonic to put on a baby's gums to soothe teething pain.  My guess is the baby was quiet because of the opium content.  I think Plexus is today's "patent medicine" without the worms, alcohol, or opium.  It promises a lot of "cures, just like old time products.

The good old days when frantic mothers could use opium and liquor to quiet screaming babies.  And you can’t forget “Mothers Little Helpers” 

 

 

[Natalie68]

18 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:

There are actual newspaper ads from the 1890's that advertise tape worms as a way to lose weight.  I guess worms are better than, say, Lydia Pinkham, which caused many, many women to become alcoholics, or Baby Percy, which was a tonic to put on a baby's gums to soothe teething pain.  My guess is the baby was quiet because of the opium content.  I think Plexus is today's "patent medicine" without the worms, alcohol, or opium.  It promises a lot of "cures, just like old time products.

I think you can still get them somewhere despite them being illegal.

[Nysha]

20 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:

There are actual newspaper ads from the 1890's that advertise tape worms as a way to lose weight.  I guess worms are better than, say, Lydia Pinkham, which caused many, many women to become alcoholics, or Baby Percy, which was a tonic to put on a baby's gums to soothe teething pain.  My guess is the baby was quiet because of the opium content.  I think Plexus is today's "patent medicine" without the worms, alcohol, or opium.  It promises a lot of "cures, just like old time products.

The difference is the worms did help you lose weight and the opium did soothe teething pain, while Plexus does nothing but take your money and poison you slowly.

[CalicoKitty]

2 hours ago, Natalie68 said:

I think you can still get them somewhere despite them being illegal.

Capsules with tape worm eggs are available on line through some very sketchy sites, but there are a lot of medical warnings on several real medical sites.  So I guess you really can give yourself tape worms.  According to one article, they don't provide much weight loss, however, and there have been very severe health problems documented.  I guess the saying is true--there is a sucker born every minute.

[Natalie68]

3 minutes ago, CalicoKitty said:

Capsules with tape worm eggs are available on line through some very sketchy sites, but there are a lot of medical warnings on several real medical sites.  So I guess you really can give yourself tape worms.  According to one article, they don't provide much weight loss, however, and there have been very severe health problems documented.  I guess the saying is true--there is a sucker born every minute.

I watched some show on it and the person was talking about what you do to kill the tapeworm. Cannot remember what it was but they said you could feel something happening.  It is all too grisly for me to mull about too much. 

[oliviabenson]

All this tape worm talk is making me lose my appetite. 

[crazycatlady58]

11 hours ago, oliviabenson said:

All this tape worm talk is making me lose my appetite. 

Which does help you lose weight ( not saying you need to) so even talking about tape worms help you lose weight.

[Tigregirl]

She has a couple of new “outfits” posted in her Curdled Cream shop.  Poor  Kaylee (I think) is modeling a top that is just huge on her.  It looks terrible.  She could be 9 months pregnant and still have room in the top.

[oliviabenson]

Her trim kids are modeling size 12 clothes. At least dress them in sizes that fit.

[oliviabenson]

Bri looked pissed during the card game. Girl needs a chill pill. Sam should not marry her imo. 

[oliviabenson]

Sounds x rated!

[BradandJanet]

2 hours ago, oliviabenson said:

Bri looked pissed during the card game. Girl needs a chill pill. Sam should not marry her imo. 

I haven't seen the card game photo, but I've noticed in other pictures that even when she's smiling, Bri somehow manages to look angry. Poor Sam. I hope this relationship turns out OK for him. 

[EmeraldGirl]

There is nobody around to buy the clothes that fit her kids. Those extra smalls are not flying off the shelves. Like I said before, Jill’s fan base are always buying plexus reset to lose weight, so I doubt they wear those sizes. I also see that Kaylee has blondish hair. It looks very pretty on her, if she would just give up that weird style of pulling half of it up.

Bri was very weird during the game. If they were up there as a couple why didn’t she say a word? And keep an eye on her, she is incessantly blinking.. Like one of those weird ticks that people have.

I have a 1896 Sears catalog,! Oh how I wish those drugs were around now. I bet when you took something for “ female weakness” they weren’t messing around. You probably got a nice dose of morphine or something. 

Edited 5 hours ago by EmeraldGirl

[Salacious Kitty]

Bri looked like she was trying to keep sweet while Sam struggled to articulate. His clues were, well, clueless. 

[CalicoKitty]

2 hours ago, EmeraldGirl said:

There is nobody around to buy the clothes that fit her kids. Those extra smalls are not flying off the shelves. Like I said before, Jill’s fan base are always buying plexus reset to lose weight, so I doubt they wear those sizes. I also see that Kaylee has blondish hair. It looks very pretty on her, if she would just give up that weird style of pulling half of it up.

Bri was very weird during the game. If they were up there as a couple why didn’t she say a word? And keep an eye on her, she is incessantly blinking.. Like one of those weird ticks that people have.

I have a 1896 Sears catalog,! Oh how I wish those drugs were around now. I bet when you took something for “ female weakness” they weren’t messing around. You probably got a nice dose of morphine or something. 

There were many "women's tonics" around to give women a boost.  They were very high in alcohol, and many, many women became alcoholic.  Most patent medicines had alcohol as a main ingredient.  During Prohibition you could not buy any alcohol in any form.  Even cough medicine.  I have a special prescription for cough medicine written during Prohibition, and it has a special liquor stamp.  Special stamps were the only way any prescription with alcohol could be filled.

They also used to give a shot of heroin during labor.  How times have changed.

My dad was a pharmacist, and he bought a store that had been in business in the same location since the 1910's.  There were a lot of old patent medicines in that store.  My dad and I collected medicine bottles and tins for many years.  Some had really great graphics on the label.  I remember selling some items like Humphrys and Beef Iron and Wine tonic when I helped in the store in the 1960's.  There was no alcohol or drugs in the product by then, but some of the ingredients in them would raise eyebrows.  Lots of strange weeds and herbs which sounded disgusting.  The claims of what the product could do were very widespread.  Just like Plexus today.