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Sorta OT - Jello

Botch
Botch Posts: 17,335
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Tonight on PBS Newhour there was an interview with an older lady, an unexpected comedienne from TN who's actually sold out the Grand Ol Opry.  During the interview she touched on some of the abominable inclusions into Jello that were popular in TN, but she left two (possibly three) ingredients that drove me crazy, growing up in South Dakota:  shredded carrot, diced celery, and possibly sliced pimento-stuffed olives (not sure on that last one, it may have been a recurring nightmare).  
I know we have some members here from MN and IA, what are your recollections?  And anyone else, what's the worst thing(s) you've seen in Jello?  (KC's Lark's Tongue in Aspic is from another era, that don't count).  
(hey, its Friday somewhere now, right?)  
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The Christmas we get, we deserve"
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Yuuuummmmm


    not.
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  • paqman
    paqman Posts: 4,919
    It was pretty popular here in the GWN in 70s-early 80s.  I’m not home right now but I’ll dig out some impressive family diner pictures 😂🤣

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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,451
    Botch said:
    Tonight on PBS Newhour there was an interview with an older lady, an unexpected comedienne from TN who's actually sold out the Grand Ol Opry.  During the interview she touched on some of the abominable inclusions into Jello that were popular in TN, but she left two (possibly three) ingredients that drove me crazy, growing up in South Dakota:  shredded carrot, diced celery, and possibly sliced pimento-stuffed olives (not sure on that last one, it may have been a recurring nightmare).  
    I know we have some members here from MN and IA, what are your recollections?  And anyone else, what's the worst thing(s) you've seen in Jello?  (KC's Lark's Tongue in Aspic is from another era, that don't count).  
    (hey, its Friday somewhere now, right?)  
    Don’t puke on your screen, Botch! I recall that “recipe”!

    I don’t suppose your gut could handle the lime jello, cottage cheese and crushed pineapple which was an occasional Sunday delight back in MO when I grew up in the 1950’s.
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,335
    RRP said:
    I don’t suppose your gut could handle the lime jello, cottage cheese and crushed pineapple which was an occasional Sunday delight back in MO when I grew up in the 1950’s.
    Oh yeah, I'm familiar with that one.  
    "Hallelujah, Noel, be it Heaven or Hell,
    The Christmas we get, we deserve"
         -RIP Greg Lake

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 21,630
    nolaegghead said:
    Yuuuummmmm


    not.
    That is aspic, not jello.

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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 21,630
    We had a neighbor who used to make a jello cake thing with money in it.  That was what she allowed the kids to dig into for Halloween.

    I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.

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  • Jstroke
    Jstroke Posts: 2,605
    Mom didn’t use Jello very often and never put stuff in it. But every year we went to a Christmas dinner with the local Audubon club and someone always brought a Lemon Jello salad with cocktail shrimp and other “stuff”. I was amazed at “seeing” the shrimp suspended in the Jello. I tried it once. One bite. I was polite, but never again. I would just look at it and shudder.
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,677
    I don't recall the initiating circumstances surrounding my total dislike of jello, but I have avoided it for as long as I can remember.  My initial assessment was that it was like eating flavoured (nod) air. 
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,555
    i used to work in the atlantic gelatin plant boiler room in woburn mass. its the jello thats bad......the hides came in smelling like a dead cat that sat in the sun for a week. the cafe looked like a fine restaurant, they DID NOT serve jello

    fukahwee maine

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  • lkapigian
    lkapigian Posts: 11,549

    Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
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  • Buckwoody Egger
    Buckwoody Egger Posts: 1,469
    Strawberry pretzel salad is where jello is at its best.  

    Gelatin is a “use every morsel” innovation from livestock and happy to help. 
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