Is anyone old enough to remember these foods?
Looking at them now, they must have been concocted by the jello industry. (Just one more before I blow up the site. pls reduce file size to under 25 kb if you post photos)
@lovendures You have to have biscuits and cornbread. If you are of the gravy eaters persuasion biscuits with sausage and cream gravy.
@coyote the gay bashers whose boaty went explodey were raised so poorly that they never apologized to, nor even thanked, their rescuers. It just goes to show, you can't save every "drip" in the ocean.
@dannyboy Did you hear about the guy in Mississippi who recently completed the 'Waffle House Challenge" after losing a fantasy football tournament with his friends? What I find hilarious about that story is that it was featured in the New York Times and a bunch of other media outlets. It shows how starved we are of innocent fun.
@jeanne-mayell I wonder if the proliferation of jello dishes in the 1950s is a result of the US armaments industry having to unload a surplus of mystery ingredients the were used to manufacture WWII bombs.
@jeanne-mayell are those the "Congealed" salads? Or are they just coagulated?
I used to love jello when i was a kid, especially the ones that were mixed w whipped cream- you know, the kind that looked like a bowl of terrazzo flooring?
But now, having seen how gelatin is made, i would never want to eat it again. (Do yourself a favor, and Never search youtube for the video of where gelatin comes from). There is a vegan Chinese buffet here that makes fancy jelled desserts out of agar-agar and exotic fruit flavors, like lychee, and dragonfruit. Yum!
As someone from the south and living really far away, I really miss hush puppies and fried okra. Those are pretty much non existent in Europe. Anything else I really like, I have had to learn how to make from scratch. I definitely don’t miss anything with jello or cool whip!
@polarberry I don't remember the lime jello and cream cheese thing having a name. But I think it did have pears in it. Canned pears of course. And I'm thinking also chopped walnuts but I'm not sure.
Ew! Yes unfortunately! My children have no idea how lucky they were born a different generation. I must say however, nobody in my family made this concoction, but other families did. @Ana, I remember the lime jello with walnut thing and it was gross too.
I am having nightmares now over salmon loaf gel chemistry food. Who would do that to salmon??? I think my grandparents did actually. But they also ate spam sometimes . They also ate fruit cake. Willingly.
Ew! They also ate deviled canned ham with mayo on sandwiches.
I also didn't like ambrosia salad with marshmallows, coconut (sometimes) and canned fruit, not that it is much better with fresh fruit. And it would have nuts. Fake dessert!
I can't think of anything this set of grandparents ate that wasn't from a can or a box...
My other set of grandparents cooked lots of homemade food, some southern even. Wow! Same generation but such different cooking.
( My apologies to anyone who ate these foods and liked them.)