What would Mama Cass eat?

She's big boned! 60's big boned!

Is Mama bottomless in that photo?

She did Hardees commercials long before my town had a Hardees. She would have tried Weight Watchers and lost the weight had she lived. Had her own talk show and continued to do Vegas.

Chocolate mousse and grasshopper pie

Eggnog. Three times a day, all year long. Also fried chicken.

Burgers and shakes

What [italic]wouldn't[/italic] she eat, is the real question.

Pecan pies and people still deeo fried chicken in the 60s. They did it more to frazzle away all the rotten bits.

Mama was from Baltimore so I'm thinking steamed crabs dumped on a brown paper covered table, fried crab cakes and pit beef sandwiches all washed down with a pitcher of Natty Boh.

Ham sandwiches

[quote] What was her typical dinner besides ham sandwiches?

One must recognize the deep and moving intelligence of Miss R10, who answered.....

[quote] Ham sandwiches

The large platter of ham sandwiches was just an appetizer.

She once said her diet trick was to never eat anything white.

I guess that ham sandwich was on pumpernickel.

Huge roast dinners with all the fat left on the meat. Plenty of thick, fatty gravy and grits. Massive apple and cherry pies with cinnamon baked into the crust. Vast chocolate fudge cakes.

r14, oh, the traditional DL fatty diet.

Tons of hairy hippie male ass. Mama Cass was a renowned rimmer. She was known to cough up hairballs mid performance!

Everything Karen Carpenter handed her.

Here is a photo of Mama Cass eating. What the hell is on her plate?

Caption this, bitches!

Steak. Everyone ate meat and potatoes.

I'm thinking she'd first go with the rumaki and dig into the gelatin mold (maybe the aspic) for starters.

Mama Cass was not that big....she was no bigger than Adele. The 60s fashion made her look bigger.

The troll at R14 is making me hungry!

The dude at R14 must be typing from experience... reminds me of the way CS Lewis would describe Narnian feasts.

Mama Cass looks SOOOOOOOO fun! In all the performances I've seen her in, she's so lively and spirited, and she looks like she's having a blast at R19. I'll forever love her for being a part of the band that sang "Twelve Thirty". I wish Tarantino had featured her more in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Damn, now DL has to start picking on DEAD fat people? Not enough living fatties for you? F&F.

Carbs, carbs, and carbs.

R18 Steak and mashed potatoes. You know, health food.

R25 That made me burst out laughing.

That's a gigantic steak.

Class was a renown drug taker. Some get skinny from drugs. Some get bloated.

*Cass

Mama Cass would eat whatever was on John, Denny and Michelle's plate

Chrissy Metz’ leftovers.

No such things, r32.

True Fear. Can you imagine being a cheeseburger on a plate in front of her?

[quote] She would have tried Weight Watchers and lost the weight had she lived.

What an odd statement. How do you know? And Weight Watchers has been around since the 1960's, so she DID live when it was here and she DIDN'T try it.

A whole cow everyday.

[quote]Mama Cass was not that big....she was no bigger than Adele. The 60s fashion made her look bigger.

That's not true, Cass was much fatter. Adele is big boned so she looks fatter than she actually is. She's just a sturdy girl with a few extra pounds. Cass was pure fat and she was short so it made it worse.

Steak with mashed potatoes and gravy R18. Looks like some wilted lettuce leaves too. Very typical for the 1970s.

Lots of pork chops and apple sauce.

She could eat a whole Beach Boy in one sitting.

I don't understand the hate for Cass Elliot in the Datalounge. She had a beautiful voice, she did NOT die choking on a ham sandwich and has been dead for 40 years! And, more importantly, she didn't pose in a bikini, like some deluded obese "models" today

I don't think anybody is hating her dear R41. More like she's a role model for all of the XXXL sized caftan wearers

And to add to r41’s post, she was pretty abused by another member of the band.

Remember the lyric, “and no one’s getting fat except Mama Cass”?

That was from her own group.

If Mama Ass had just given that ham sandwich to Karen Carpenter ...

^^ CASS

[quote]Remember the lyric, “and no one’s getting fat except Mama Cass”?

Calm down, Dora! Back when the song was popular, "fat" meant getting rich.

[quote]Remember the lyric, “and no one’s getting fat except Mama Cass”?

Calm down, Dora. Back when this song was popular, getting fat meant getting rich.

Mama Ass is a great drag name!

Mama Ass ate ass

They meant it both ways R46, come on. It doesn't make any sense to have it mean only money because by the time the lyric does a turn-around and ends with "and everyone's getting fat except Mama Cass" she was making money, too. Unless they cut her out of Mamas & Papas profits and even if they did I doubt they'd sing about it.

[quote]They meant it both ways [R46], come on. It doesn't make any sense to have it mean only money because by the time the lyric does a turn-around and ends with "and everyone's getting fat except Mama Cass" she was making money, too.

You're missing the point of the song because you don't understand the history of the times and how the group came together. The song ends before the group becomes successful.

Throughout the first part of the song, they are talking about how Cass was a rich Jewish princess. Her parents wanted her to go to Swarthmore, which was one of the liberal arts colleges where parents could send their daughters for an education, like Smith or Bowdoin. However, Cass wanted to be on Broadway so she moved to NYC.

The song goes through the entire history of different musical groups that John & Michelle Phillips interacted with. As the song ends, John, Michelle and Denny were coming together as a vocal group but were tired of the NYC scene. They decided to leave for the West Coast but Cass wanted to stay in NYC, still having dreams of Broadway.

"Everybody's getting fat except Mama Cass" refers to them going to LA to take the next step to stardom but Cass wasn't going to go with them. They're saying, "We're all going to get rich and have success, except for Cass who still thinks she has a Broadway career." The song ends by saying "California dreamin' is becoming a reality."

Fun fact: Cass was one of the finalists considered to play Miss Marmelstein in "I Can Get It For You Wholesale." The part eventually went to an unknown actress named Barbra Streisand.

Mama Cass should have sat on Barbra's face for stealing her role, R52.

It's not a song about the "history of the times" r51 and your claim that it is sounds self-aggrandizing, as though you think your knowledge of this group makes you a historian. It just means you read Wikipedia.

You're in no position to analyze even the simplest lyric if you think the "fat" lyric didn't have a double meaning here. Of course it did. It wasn't only about money. They used that particular phrase about money and success because Cass was literally fat.