Contest - yet more gelatin in exciting shapes

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

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YES TIMES 3

[njbearcub1.livejournal.com]

I kinda need to know what's in the pink catastrophe at the bottom.

Re: YES TIMES 3

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I think I spy lima beans in there, but I could be wrong.

Re: YES TIMES 3

[njbearcub1.livejournal.com]

Please Baby Jeebus, don't let it be so...

They're too shiny. It has to be a dessert, and those are gumdrops, or something...

Though, knowing how things were, those big red chucks that I assume to be just plain strawberry Jell-O are actually pimiento slices.

Re: YES TIMES 3

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Actually, my second thought was jelly beans, so you might be right! Jelly beans or gum drops in Jello...man, that person's dentist probably made a fortune!

Re: YES TIMES 3

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I double-checked the ad to make sure I hadn't cropped the recipe for the pink dish, but nope, it isn't included. I suppose it was obvious to the 1940s housewife but all I can guess is that it's some sort of dessert.

YES

[medren.livejournal.com]

Gah...the middle and back ones look like they contain jellied mealworms.

YES~!

[veronica-jay.livejournal.com]

ugh, yes that's it.

YES

[extrarice.livejournal.com]

Lemon Jello + meat bullion + meat? WTF? O_O I scared...

YES

[warmdarkwoman.livejournal.com]

MY EYES! THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!

Yeeessss

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Bright Spots for Wartime Meals? Y'know, it really would take an advancing Nazi horde to get me to eat that.

YES!

[charlotterhys.livejournal.com]

I wasn't even brave enough to read the recipes.

[etinterrapax.livejournal.com]

That first one has got to be a straight-up hacked-off alien snout.

[amyangel96.livejournal.com]

The savory jello monstrosities I've seen here are definitely helping me eat lightly for lunch today. Crackers only, so far.

I find myself wondering if Jello was originally intended for all sorts of foods, and only later became associated with dessert only, or if all these were an aberration from the beginning. I imagine a marketing meeting discussing how people were scrimping by eliminating dessert, and brainstorming ways to wedge Jello into the entree instead to keep up sales.

I'm also wondering about that pink mess.

[stasia]

Yes, there used to be celery flavored Jell-O and other non-fruit types. I ... sort of want to try them, just to see if they're horrifying or awesome.

Stasia

[amyangel96.livejournal.com]

Eww... celery jello? At least that would make some sense, though. The sweet fruit ones with veggies and meat just blow my mind.

[laplor.livejournal.com]

I think these savoury gelatin things came from the idea of aspic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspic

Frankly, to me, some of them wouldn't be so bad made with celery gelatin, but overly sweet fruit flavours plus veggies? Eww!

[amyangel96.livejournal.com]

I could kind of see them as being some sort of solidified soup if the gelatin was a veggie flavor of some kind, but the fruit ones? I agree, Eww!

YES

[1girl.livejournal.com]

The pink one is a horror of epic proportions. I seriously can't get over it. Everything is wrong with it. The texture, the color...ugh.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

The one in front lured them in with its soft, pink deliciousness,

while the one in back opened its gaping maw to devour them.

[craving-vintage.livejournal.com]

Yes!

That first one looks like a deformed version of nachos.

[crabofdoom.livejournal.com]

Without reading the entire recipes, one cannot tell which goes with which dish. The cards don't line up with the picture, either, and the lemon box is next to the lime dish. To borrow from Joel and the Bots: they just didn't care.

[seamonkey-mags.livejournal.com]

The pink one almost looks like a wonderful oasis compared to the other two.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

These are beautiful!

yes

[3cthelion.livejournal.com]

gelatin is just a great way to display how terrible your meal really is.

Yes

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

What is worse than jello, mayonnaise and cottage cheese?

Jello, mayonnaise and rice. Yuk.

Yes

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Chicken relish mold? That doesn't even sound good without the jello, but with it, ack.

yes

[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

::gag:: These ads are *excellent* appetite suppressants - I may never eat again... :-(

[undergroundsea.livejournal.com]

It's an aspic-extravaganza!

yes

[whoseline_wlsc]

Lime Jello with veggies? Urgh these gelatin catastrophes just get worse. I don't even want to know about that pink dish. eeuw.

[gingerspark.livejournal.com]

it's hard to believe these are legal...

pink jello...

[radteacherally.livejournal.com]

I remember all through my childhood...late 80's and early 90's...that whenever there was a potluck dinner or picnic....someone ALWAYS made pink or green jello with fruit cocktail in it. All of the adults just allowed the stuff to mush into everything else onto their plates.

That always grossed me out.

That jello mold stuff is nasty on its own....but then to let it mingle with other things on the plate....*vomits*

YES

[vix.livejournal.com]

Good god, Jell-o must have had quite a following back then.

Yes.

[uniquelysimilar.livejournal.com]

Oh god. Can you imagine someone serving this AS A MEAL?