fandomhigh | Nightmare Party Planning from the Mid-Century; Tuesday, Third Period [08/13].

When the students came into the classroom that Tuesday, there weren't any cloches on the counter in front of Summer, which might have been equally a relief and a concern, except that they were, instead, replaced with several cases of 7-Up soda. And once everyone was there, Summer smiled and placed a hand on one of those cases.

"So," she said, "this week, I was planning on actually doing a bit on beverages to serve at your nightmare party, especially since, you know, the whole bartender thing, that's sort of my whole jam? And the crux of that was this really popular mid-century recipe for what sounds absolutely awful if you ask me and that's 7-Up and milk. Like, they were promoting just giving that shit to literal babies. But then I found out there was a whole 7-Up cookbook from 1953, and, like, this was a thing a lot of advertisers did back then? Those of you who were in my last banana class found out that a lot of the recipes were taken from cookbooks released literally by Big Banana corporations. Because Big Banana was a thing. Most of the ubiquitous mayo in everything was because Hellmann's knew how to fucking work that marketing grift.

"And so, today, in honor of corporate cookbooks to push certain products, today I want to explore 7-Up specifically and have a 7-Up party, and you're making the menu! Of course, I've got several recipes from the cookbook to share with you all, and also a couple from the '60s, but I also also encourage you to be creative and see if you can take some inspiration from them and come up with something all your own. And remember: coming up with something actually good is nice, but something terrible is actually way more fun."

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Head's up, 7-up!

Wonder if Summer herself is currently being paid by Big 7-Up....or if she just actually had a ridiculously large shipment of the stuff come in at the store yesterday. Maybe it's both!

It's a crisp and refreshing lemon-lime soda that's been around for nearly one hundred years now! Flip through the pages of the cookbooks for inspiration or points of interest, and see what you can bring to this 7-Up party!

Don't worry; Summer is already all over the cheese and aspic mold.

Yeah, she's doing a whole class based around a soda that's really only good for when you're sick or for mixed drinks at house parties. She does feel like she sort of lost the plot on this one, but whatever.