dave keon invites you to try...

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The 1970s. You have a pantry full of Campbell's Vegetable Soup. You can't decide what kind of sandwich will taste best while playing spelling games with the alphabet pasta. Who do you turn to!

Toronto Maple Leafs hockey star Dave Keon, of course!

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Dave offers plenty of suggestions, from the simple (leftover meatloaf on Wonder bread) to the kid-pleasing (who doesn't like to make happy faces out of their salmon sandwich?) to recipes Elvis Presley might appreciate (the PB&B, though the King liked his fried).

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The backside offers a variety of savoury and sweet sandwiches, though some, like maple french toast, sound like assemblies you'd eat on their own or enjoy for dessert.

One wonders how many extra copies of this tipsheet Dave had when he departed the Maple Leafs for the World Hockey Association's Minnesota Fighting Saints in 1975.

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