BS: Fear the Jell-O

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 08:14 PM

Mushrooms, onions, leeks, collards, mustard greens, pop rocks, chunks of limestone -- the list of stir-ins is endless!

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 05:19 PM

As a cold dessert, (the kind Olddude fears), it can, as noted, be mixed with all sorts of fruit, shredded carrots, marshmallows,... whatever.... and colored and 'designed' to suit the most jaded Mid-Western tastes.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 05:14 PM

I should have guessed that Wikipedia would have the full story on makeup and brands of gelatin stuff

Over here, I have never seen packets of already congealed 'jelly' sold in packets in stores. It is, as far as I know, always sold as a powder and mixed with warm water, then cooled and eaten cold.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: JennieG
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 04:48 PM

When my sons were young I made traffic light jelly, first the green, allow to set, pour in the cooled yellow, allow to set, pour in the cooled red, allow to set. Very pretty in a glass dish.

You would love it, Dan!

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: gnu
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 02:03 PM

Is Jell-O half-aspic?

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 12:56 PM

unlike Jello that can't be eaten ... talk about explosive turds LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 12:54 PM

you can also eat it Rap. In WWII they smuggled it into France as Pancake batter. If the Germans wanted to test it they just made a pancake that could be eaten. The resistance then would take it add the cap and blow up communication lines and train tracks.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Nov 13 - 11:34 AM

So? C4 is stable. You can even use it as a cooking fire. Done that. Besides, it can be handy to have around for removing trees, tree stumps, neighbors, and to celebrate New Year's.

True story: my nephew was working on PhD in chemistry. "His" chemical needed toulene to start the reaction, but it also produced more toulene as an unwanted by-product. He wondered how to get this out of the solution; I suggested he nitrate it and it would precipitate out. He thought a moment and decided that doing so would violate the Chemistry Dean's rather strict rules. No fun with chemistry anymore, I suppose. Ah, for the old days!

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 23 Nov 13 - 09:42 PM

if you mix red jello and green jello Rap you get C4 and it is very dangerous FEAR the JELLO pay heed to the warning .. run run

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Nov 13 - 04:16 PM

General Foods marketed it That should have been "test marketed"...

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Amergin
Date: 22 Nov 13 - 11:52 PM

Put a whole new spin on the old phrase "Jello eating grin".

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 22 Nov 13 - 10:43 PM

chocolatey?

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Nov 13 - 09:27 PM

If you mix red jello and green jello in preparation you get brown jello. It wiggles, it's brown -- what IS it?

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: JennieG
Date: 22 Nov 13 - 04:31 PM

Thank you chanteylass, it will soon.......solid food will be good, but jelly is nice right now.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Nov 13 - 12:52 PM

Knox gelatin(e) is not artificial, and contains no sugar.
It is extracted from animal collagen, a protein substance from bones, skin and connective tissues of animals. The gelatine is extracted by hot water treatment and concentrated.

It has no flavor so can be used in setting up foods and is often used in molded salads and desserts. It is low in calories. Because it has no flavor, it can be used with most juices to make your own "jelly" or gelatin dish.
Knox now has flavored varieties as well as the original unflavored gelatin.

Knox is a trademark, there are other brands.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 10:54 PM

JennieG, I hope your throat heals soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 07:54 PM

Raspberry Jello with Cool Whip and white mini-marshmellows in it. Yummy!! Looks like brain with broken pustules.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 07:12 PM

Oh, Tami, you can HAVE the Jell-o. I won't give it house room. My ex-husband was a chemist with Atlantic Gelatins, part of General Foods, which made Jell-o. He spent a lot of time analyzing Royal Gelatin to find out why it was so much better than Jell-o. (Well, for starters, they used better quality hides and hooves...) He also helped develop a hand dispersable, gel in cold water, gel in 15 minutes Jell-o. General Foods marketed it and decided not to sell it because it would take over from the traditional Jell-o. (What? Am I missing something here? They developed an improvement and didn't market it because it was better than the traditional product? How screwed up can you get?!?)

Drop some Jell-o on a pair of leather shoes some time...if you don't mind buying another pair of shoes.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 07:06 PM

... a very scratched sore throat. Some nice cold jelly would be good

In rare instances when I use "Jello" I usually just add hot water to the powder and drink it warm (without letting it "set") as a somewhat soothing treatment for mild upsets of the innards. The Jello is liquid, or at worst "semi-solid," at internal body temperatures, so it doesn't "set up" inside you; and it seems to produce a soothing effect on irritated upper gastric areas.

To clarify for those where markets vary, in the US "Jello®" is a trade name. Their most common product is probably the flavored gelatin powder that maxes with hot water and then sets up into "jelly" (a soft "rubber") when cooled. The "standard" variety contains more sugar than gelatin, but they also offer "sugar free" (artificial sweetener) varieties, with both kinds available in about a dozen flavors.

Jello® also markets "puddings," similarly packaged, that usually are prepared with milk (or some other "milkish stuff"). Both "instant" and versions that require "cooking" are offered in the "puddings."

Unflavored gelatin is also commonly available as a powdered or granular product, but so far as I've seen this is not produced by Jello®. The most commonly seen brand in areas where I took note is Knox®. The Knox people may offer the unflavored gelatin in "cake" form, but I haven't seen that kind for several decades in local markets we've patronized.

The unflavored gelatin is used by some to make the same sort of noxious (is it then Knoxious?) kinds of stuff as with Jello, to cater to special dietary preferences, but may be more often used to simulate "jellied meatish stuff." I can't comment much about such uses, as I've been averse to commiting such atrocities against things otherwise resembling food.

There has been some debate about whether "KoolAid®" is just "Jello without the gelatin," but I doubt whether anyone really knows.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 05:00 PM

I could do with some right now......have a very sore throat from an operation a few days ago, the tube which was stuck down my throat while I was out to it has left me with a very scratched sore throat. Some nice cold jelly would be good.

In Oz, it comes powdered.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,leenia
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 04:17 PM

1. Make some red jello.
2. Put some in a pretty dish.
3. Pour some half and half on it.

Eat. Delicious!

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: gnu
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 02:00 PM

Parotidectomies - partial on right, full on left. 3 days in hospital each time. I could have as much Jell-O, popsicles, ice cream, and juice and icewater as I wanted from the post-surgery ward fridge. You can lose weight on popsicles ya know. Cleaned em out between 5PM and 9PM the first evening. Gave my buddy $20 and said, "Popsicles." He said, "There's Jel..." I mumbled, "Fuck Jell-O. Popsicles." He was back from The Coop (a 90 second drive away) in less than 30 minutes.

Jell-O sucks. But it's fun watchin kids try to eat it with a straw.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 01:57 PM

the making of gelatin goes back centuries... but the commercial processing came in the 1800's.

Around 1897 in America, the patent was bought by the family in LeRoy that came up with the marketing label of Jell-O. And the rest, as they say, is history... LOL.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 01:07 PM

Well, I buy Chivers jelly. It's a little waxy packet containing 12 shiny rubbery cubes (squares) all joined together in a block. You cut off with scissors however many you need, and dissolve them in a little boiling water. You then add cold water according to the directions on the pack. I add juice of the fruit too. Chivers comes in many flavours, each of the appropriate colour. Lemon, orange, raspberry, strawberry etc. But the squares of 'raw' jelly are absolutely delicious. You can chew on them as they're rubbery and sweet. As a little girl, I once got stuck into my mum's Chivers jelly and ate square after square, my cheeks were bulging. I tried to do up the packet again, but she was livid! It's never been called jell-o here in UK as far as I know. I seem to remember a skipping chant that went, "Jelly on a plate, jelly on a plate, wibble wobble wibble wobble, jelly on a plate!" (To the tune of 'Knees up Mother Brown') It continued, "Sausage in the pan, sausage in the pan, turn it over, turn it over" etc. We've always loved our jelly!

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 12:14 PM

it seems that the UK has both packets of the powdered gelatin and squares... so perhaps Canada might have both as well.

We used to add packets of plain gelatin to the horses' feed to keep their hooves in good shape. Corn oil was to put a shine on their coats.

And the Aunt Helen holiday special was orange jello made with orange juice instead of cold water with shredded carrots & crushed canned pineapple added to the mold before pouring.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,highlandman at work
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 10:47 AM

This thread reminds me of...
(sorry U.K. folks and anyone too young to remember)
The TV series A.L.F., when Lynn sneaks a Thanksgiving dinner plate up to the Alien Life Form:

ALF: (poking wobbly orange mass on plate) What is that? Rubber dog vomit?
LYNN: (insulted) It's pumpkin jello.
ALF: I can't eat that! Hey -- I never heard myself say *that* before."

I have unfortunately had many opportunities to use this quote. Mrs Highlandman is rarely amused.

-Glenn

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 10:19 AM

Squares???? Squares????? Ours is a packet of powder. Where can I get squares?

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 09:33 AM

This 'gelatin dessert' that Brits call 'jelly'..... does it have a brand name when you buy it at the store? Can you buy Jell-O as a brand... and if so, why call it jelly?

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 09:10 AM

the village of LeRoy here in western NY is the "Home of Jello" and has an annual festival each July. www.oatkafestival.org

if you get get there, you can check out their site for a good laugh

my favorite Jello memory is from the Bill Cosby comedy skit "chicken heart"... I won't give it away because I'm sure you can find it on line somewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 07:36 AM

Yes Pete, I make it with strawberry jelly on home-made sponge, with luscious home-grown strawberries, ladles of sherry, some crushed walnuts, cold custard made with Jersey milk and lashings (shades of Enid Blyton?) of thick cream on top. Imagine the calories and the cholesterol in that lot! (But at least the jelly doesn't fatten you.)

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 21 Nov 13 - 06:03 AM

Sherry trifle, Eliza, now you're talking...

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 10:01 PM

Beware:

It has no arms, no legs, it has no private part
it is orange, it is green, as red as your heart
a blanket, wet though not warm, but ne'er cold as snow
it slides o'er throat into bone, this lovely Jello

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 05:17 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 04:55 PM

olddude, that might be the most exciting thing I've had in the night for quite a while!! Bring on the Jelly!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 04:51 PM

No Eliza,   run don't walk away from it ... you could wake up next to a green blob it will attack you while you sleep .. fear the Jello

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 04:41 PM

I love jelly (Brit for jell-o) and I like to eat the squares 'raw' from the packet. Did you know that it toughens your fingernails, so if you play guitar or banjo, you'd find it to be a Good Thing! We used to be given a pink blancmange rabbit nestling on a bed of green jelly at Birthday parties in the fifties. I always asked for some of the 'grass' rather than the blancmange. And don't say you hate sherry trifle. It's gorgeous!

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 02:44 PM

Blow up nun dolls for the sexually inhibited catholic.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: gnu
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 02:40 PM

Dan, you ask for understanding but you send Nun dolls? When did you get into this habit?

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 02:28 PM

that's it Sins, now you are getting little nun dolls for xmas

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 01:43 PM

My one shortcoming, Dude.




heh heh

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 01:34 PM

Remember....don't fear the jello!

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 01:22 PM

Sins,
Oh the horror, the horror .. say it ain't so

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 12:35 PM

Cranberries are honest food. I slather turkey and dressing, roasted chicken and toast with the sauce- haven't tried it on calamari or catfish, but might do.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 12:10 PM

I love Jell-O but hate the molds filled with fruit, nuts, sour cream and lord knows what else. Yuck!


I also love jellied cranberry sauce. Sometimes eat it for dessert.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 11:54 AM

It wiggles and jiggles. Frightening! Oh, the nightmares! And the mock flavors- orange, lemon and slime.

Ban it, I say! Demonstrate before the White House. March on Fifth Avenue. Man the barricades!

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 11:20 AM

Noooooo   I fear the Jello the blob is alive I tell you ...
you open your fridge and bam   you are covered in the blob ..

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: David C. Carter
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 11:12 AM

Dan,I just sent(At amazingly great expence)10 DVDs,1 thru 10,about Jello.Thay are made in Albania,so is the Jello

I went to great lengths to get these,but with friends in low places
it was a piece of cake.

I'll send ya the cake another time.
You don't need to thank me,I'm like that!

Good luck



David

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 10:52 AM

Dan, I've sent (at great expense, I may add) a lime Jell-o turkey to you and yours for Thanksgiving -- a 22 pounder! Cook it if you wish -- it's your oven. Or use it in Jell-o Turkey a la King. With red sprinkles it's very festive.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 10:18 AM

Joke I invented many years ago to make a point about how people differ:

He:"So, honey... wanna come back to my place for a night you'll always remember?"

She: "Why would a night with YOU be special?"

He: "Oh, I have some special aids to "enhance" things."

She: "Oh, you're one of the kinky ones, hmm? I dunno... what kind of things?"

He: "Ummm..just the goat, a Nun, mirrors on the ceilings, a leather corset, and a trampoline filled with Jello."

She: "Hmmm.. that doesn't sound too bad- might be fun...... wait a minute... what flavor Jello?"

He: "Uh...lime.."

She: "Pervert!"

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 10:07 AM

Oh yeah, I forgot, you need to "marble" that with some whipped cream...

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 10:04 AM

Green Jello just isn't quite right unless you stir in walnut chunks, apple bits, carrot shreds, cranberries, and maybe a little spinach...

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 09:56 AM

LiK has a "family recipe" that everyone calls "the green stuff." When the elders of the family began to pass on, there was "great panic" throughout the entire remaining generations of the family that "the GREEN STUFF RECIPE MUST BE FOUND!!!!. It appeared that no surviving person had the recipe, or remembered how it was "brewed."

The recipe was recovered (and was called "green stuff" in her mother's old diary), and copies were distributed to all the surviving descendants of the curse. For a while "green stuff" appeared at every "meeting of the accursed." So far as I observed no one every ate it, although a few of the younger kids suggested it might be "ammunition for a food fight;" but it was ceremonially exhibited and "homages to the green stuff" were duly rendered.

More recently, it has (thankfully) been relegated to complaints at every get-to that "nobody brought the green stuff," and hopefully within another generation or two it will be just a "dim memory" of an ancient family curse.

Green Jello is definitely one of the ingredients. I REFUSE even to attempt to identify what else was in it.

Be warned that I also have no knowledge of what was done with all of it that remained after the earlier meetings, or where it might be lurking to reappear as a curse on some unsuspecting others, or on future generations of her family.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: gnu
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 08:32 AM

JiK... agreed. Vile and disgusting says I.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 20 Nov 13 - 07:22 AM

Ugh.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 10:28 PM

The good thing about jello is that it's a dessert. Eat everything else heartily. Then say, "I never have enough room for jello."

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Amergin
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 09:15 PM

Ah, olddude...that's what you get when you stalk about fearing jello....when that song is going through my head.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 08:55 PM

During shopping, my mom and her friwnds used to take me to a department store resaurant when I was a young boy. I recall the desert of "mock strawberry shortcake" with white graham cracker crumbs,strawberry jello and a foamy mock whipped cream on top. It may have tasted ok then, butI would likely find. It yucky now.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 08:16 PM

Never mind the Jello.

It's that $@#%! Cranberry Sauce that's lethal.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: gnu
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 08:15 PM

Heheheheheheheee! Great one!

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 08:06 PM

Amergan
Now I can never listen to that song without singing don't fear the jello

Dang stuck in my head now

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: Amergin
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 07:34 PM

Don't Fear the Jello


Thanksgiving has come
Here, but soon it's gone
Seasons don't fear the jello
Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain
(We can be like they are)

Come on baby
(Don't fear the jello)
Baby take my hand
(Don't fear the jello)
We'll be able to fly
(Don't fear the jello)
Baby I'm your man

La, la la, la la
La, la la, la la

Halloween is done
Here but now they're gone
Romeo and Juliet
Are together in eternity
(Eating their lemon jello)

40,000 men and women every day
(Like Romeo and Juliet)
40,000 men and women every day
(Redefine good dessert)
Another 40,000 coming every day
(We can eat what they are)

Come on baby
(Don't fear the jello)
Baby take my hand
(Don't fear the jello)
We'll be able to fly
(Don't fear the jello)
Baby I'm your man

La, la la, la la
La, la la, la la

Love of two is one
Here but now they're gone

Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn't eat on
Then the fridge door opened and jello appeared
They dished it out and it disappeared
Their buttons flew and bellies appeared
(Saying, "Please me out now")

Come on baby
(And she had no room)
And she ate dessert
(Then they started to sigh)
They looked downward and said goodbye
(She had become like they are)
At their receding waistlines
(She had become like they are)

Come on baby
(Don't fear the jello)

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 07:32 PM

Like olddude now, I used to fear Jello. When I was about 9 years old my dad told me whence gelatin. Until my late teens I never again ate it. But I love Jello now--its easy to gum.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: ragdall
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 06:55 PM

Is it cherry flavoured? Put me down on the list of people willing to eat extra to save you from it, Dan.


rags

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 06:10 PM

I like jello. I will eat your share, Dan.

Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: gnu
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 06:04 PM

Jell-O? Pretty hard to fuck up Jell-O. I hate it when they fuck up the turkey... the spuds... the carrots... the...

I can pass on the Jell-O but I gotta take some of the rest of it. It's only polite.

Subject: BS: Fear the Jell-O
From: olddude
Date: 19 Nov 13 - 05:41 PM

Thanksgiving is one of the holiday's that for some reason relatives think any great meal is better with the dreaded dare I say Jello

don't give in to it ... run I tell you ...

fear the Jell-o

didn't you ever see the movie the blob ... well ya should cause it is all true