This abomination
Copies of this kept coming up on an Ebay search I was doing for an author with a similar name. As luck would have it, it came out a couple of years after Frances Bavier died.
She hated playing Aunt Bee.
She was from New York, was classically trained and hated having the bloated corpse of this old bag hung around her neck. She also was a pain in the ass to work with, apparently. She died as a sort of recluse in rural North Carolina, surrounded by no-one.
Aunt Bee’s Kerosene Cucumbers was some kind of running gag in an episode about terrible pickles, but I don’t really get the joke and wasn’t motivated enough to work it out.
Posted: November 12th, 2025 under personal.
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Comment from Teej
Time: November 12, 2025, 6:15 pm
She had to have been an awesome actress, because when I watch those old episodes (even the pickle one) I truly believe she was kindly and loving and just a little bit ditzy. Instead of a mean old misanthrope.
If she’d been skinny, and had cans like La Sweeney, she’d have swept up every acting role there was. Waistline is destiny.
Comment from RushBabe
Time: November 12, 2025, 11:41 pm
I just so happen to be in possession of said cookbook. The recipe doesn’t appeal to me, and I’m okay with dill pickles. It calls for hot peppers, garlic, onion, whole spices, alum and vinegar.
I asked a MAJOR fan of the show what the deal was and she said Aunt Bee just had a horrible recipe for dill pickles, never ate them (or even tried them), and foisted them on everyone else.
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