I ate an uncomfortable amount of Jello, both by itself and full of other things, back in the ‘60s. You can’t overstate how many recipes in women’s magazines had Jello in them.
Oh they got me
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TomMasz@piefed.social 3 weeks ago jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Jello… expires?
Excuse me, I need to go check something…
Flower@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They’re made from gelatin, and that’s made with collagen, an animal product.
The hides and bones of certain animals — often cows and pigs — are boiled, dried, treated with a strong acid or base, and finally filtered until the collagen is extracted. The collagen is then dried, ground into a powder, and sifted to make gelatin.
That’s some recycling there.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
lol I assumed she was talking to Jesus about this at first
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Then on the next line I saw fish, and thought this was going to be some kind of loaves and fishes story.
Then I saw jello and really wondered how they would tie that in. What would Jesus turn jello into?
Then ultimately I was disappointed. Worst Bible story ever.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 3 weeks ago Who could forget Jesus’s sermon where he fed all those people with only two cans of tuna and a box of jello mix
Geobloke@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Just like grandma should never have made
farmgineer@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
If there’s nothing else in the pantry, boil the noodles and serve with tuna. Separately make the jello for dessert. If you have other things, do that but make a sauce for the noodles as well.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago Tuna Mac. Super easy, filling, has protein, and dirt cheap.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago Honestly those ingredients really do seem like they’d be in some sort of gelatin desert.
deathmetal27@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What?
Godort@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s an interesting bit of American history, actually.
During WWII there was a small revolution in food preservation technology to keep the army properly fed. Then when the war ended, a lot of those highly processed foods started to make their way to the grocery stores and onto pantry shelves.
The problem was that because a lot of these ingredients were new, no one really knew what to do with them. This led to a lot of absolutely heinous recipes being shared in magazines.
These recipes usually took the form of sweet and savory jello-based salads
For reference
Akasazh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What helped is that gelatine pre-industrial food processing was very hard to make and prohibitively expensive. Hence it a was only for the very rich.
Like with grass lawns, when they became attainable for the middle class people jumped on those, because regardless if it’s actually good it showed your status as recently affluent.
This is why they became a staple, only the lawn stuck, though.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
esc@piefed.social@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I would at least try it, looks nice!
Bipauler@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure that’s going to be fire. Dinner and dessert all in one!
jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This dude, who is as gay as the day is long, does a Vintage Recipes series where he makes and eats all this weird old shit from the 1950s. It cracks me up, though I realize it’s not for everyone.
Godort@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I am shocked that this link was not to a B Dylan Hollis video. There must be a market for flamboyant gay men that make bizarre vintage recipes.
An example
jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Haha I love how they have damn near the same reaction face when finally eating it!