Hmmm. I don't know if I have a scary one? We've always been a "give it a try" family and I like a lot of stuff. What we don't like was then passed over or not forced on us, as a general rule.
Think think think.
I guess the worst thing was discovering that mum had to sift some of our grains and flour and stuff for weavils, overseas. That was gross, but I was also pragmatic about it? (Though we never ever told my brother.)
I'm sitting here at nearly 2 AM laughing out loud at these food...things.
My mom did make a couple of Jell-O loaf things in the 70s. Never anything with meat or seafood mash. I think there was one thing she mixed with sour cream and canned pineapple...? I probably still have the pamphlet with the recipe. She also did that rainbow Jell-O thing where you tilt the wine glass in the fridge and add more colors once the layers chill. That was pretty. Huh. Maybe I should...nah.
Actually the layered colors of jello is pretty neat. I just can't deal with jello that has creamy or chunky things in. Jello should just be, well, jello, right?
It gets an interesting ice-creamy texture if mixed with creamy things and then frozen. In a loaf shape. And then sliced. With colored chunks in it. Like maraschino cherries. Which I remember buying in the 1970s but I don't think I have touched in decades. So pretty, though!
It's the creamed seafood with artificial fruit-flavored gelatin that sends me right over the edge, screaming.
Fortunately, my mom never made any of those concoctions. Strictly meat, potatoes, and veg. No salad at all... which is better than being served jello salad I'm sorry, but JELLO IS NOT A SALAD!!! It is a DESSERT! Sorry to yell, but although I never had to face one of those things in my own home, Paul's aunt Marie and her compatriots used to make them and call them "salad". I would just pass it along the table without taking any and without comment, unless someone was rude enough to point out that I hadn't taken any. Then I would simply say that I don't eat "sweets". Which isn't entirely true. I eat sweets on occasion. But NEVER as a salad course!
Jello salads! What a thing to be confronted with over morning tea! I'm certainly awake now!
In my house (I think I'm slightly younger than the target audience here, but not much), Jello was strictly a dessert option. But what an option! We had all sorts of canned fruit in our Jello, plus Jello parfaits, plus Knox Blocks (Jello with extra gelatin, if I remember correctly), and cakes that had been dyed and streaked with Jello. :) M.
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Hmmm. I don't know if I have a scary one? We've always been a "give it a try" family and I like a lot of stuff. What we don't like was then passed over or not forced on us, as a general rule.
Think think think.
I guess the worst thing was discovering that mum had to sift some of our grains and flour and stuff for weavils, overseas. That was gross, but I was also pragmatic about it? (Though we never ever told my brother.)
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Would that be the lesser of two weevils lol?!
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My mom did make a couple of Jell-O loaf things in the 70s. Never anything with meat or seafood mash. I think there was one thing she mixed with sour cream and canned pineapple...? I probably still have the pamphlet with the recipe. She also did that rainbow Jell-O thing where you tilt the wine glass in the fridge and add more colors once the layers chill. That was pretty. Huh. Maybe I should...nah.
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It's the creamed seafood with artificial fruit-flavored gelatin that sends me right over the edge, screaming.
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On a related note, I have performed this delightful novelty/cabaret song by a legit composer, and I'm not sure that I ever appreciated its verisimilitude.
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Jello salads! What a thing to be confronted with over morning tea! I'm certainly awake now!
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You're preachin' to the choir here, sister. I'm with you 100%!
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In my house (I think I'm slightly younger than the target audience here, but not much), Jello was strictly a dessert option. But what an option! We had all sorts of canned fruit in our Jello, plus Jello parfaits, plus Knox Blocks (Jello with extra gelatin, if I remember correctly), and cakes that had been dyed and streaked with Jello. :) M.
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