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BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O

23 Aug 08 - 10:06 AM (#2420641)
Subject: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

I went to my frig this morning and to my horror I saw that sometime during the night my wife made a bowl of red quivering

Jell-O.

The horror- the horror! Now anyone who has ever spent a long hospital stay knows that the meals in the hospital consist of
Jell-O in the morning, Jell-O in the afternoon, Jell-O at suppertime.

Jell-O is the great scourge of mankind. I am convinced that all problems in the world are caused by Jell-O.
Jell-O makes people angry. Once even I - a mild mannered person by nature - threw a bowl of Jell-O against the wall in the

Hospital. World leaders who eat Jell-O wake up angry and then a war with someone breaks out.

The awful slander terms against our British friends - caused by Lime Jell-O

Religious leaders who complain about the rise in porn - caused by the bikini clad young girls jumping into large vats of

Jell-O claiming it is for charity

Poverty - caused by people spending their hard earned dollars on Jell-O


It is a curse I tell you, a curse to all mankind. Unlike the hot dog (another thread) that brings peace to the world. There

Is no place for Jell-O? Especially the kind my mom makes with all the fruit stuck inside it. I am afraid someday a reaction

To the fruit and Jell-O will cause a nuclear explosion that will take out a state.

Dear friends, you must listen to me. Avoid the evil Jell-O at all costs.

My wife and I had a deal. I was not allowed to have Cristi Brinkley, and she was not allowed Jell-O … does anyone have Cristi's number?

Now I have to find a priest to do an exorcism on my frig ...


23 Aug 08 - 10:09 AM (#2420643)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: pdq

Perhaps you could decorate it with burnt weenies?


23 Aug 08 - 10:13 AM (#2420646)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Bill D

Perhaps you, Cristi, AND jello..... in a plastic wading pool...would alter your opinion.


23 Aug 08 - 10:24 AM (#2420648)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: GUEST,leeneia

To the tune of 'Did you ever see a lassie?"


Did you ever have a supper, a covered-dish supper?

Did you ever have a supper tum tum tum tum teen

There's Jello a-quiver and casserole liver

And there's lots more macaroni than I've ever seen.

=======
I feel for you olddude, but perhaps there's some innocent explanation. Are you expecting a visit from young children? Going to a potluck?

I used to hear that eating Jello was good for weak fingernails, but I don't know if there's anything to it.


23 Aug 08 - 10:29 AM (#2420651)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Bee

Worst food with jello: shredded carrots in lime jello, moulded and served as a 'salad'. <>.


23 Aug 08 - 10:35 AM (#2420655)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

Bee
that is an image nightmares are made from ... sends shivers down my spine .... yieeeee


23 Aug 08 - 10:53 AM (#2420663)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

Ok here is the deal, she was asked to make it for a wedding shower. Clearly I can see that marriage won't last .. but now I still have to sprinkle holy water on my frig to drive out the Jell-O demons. I liked PDQ's idea. I could decorate it with the burn weenies from last nights grill tragety


23 Aug 08 - 10:54 AM (#2420664)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Bee

Could be worse, olddude - I warn you, do not look at this image without a strong drink in hand.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/2381832444_3769517d0f.jpg?v=0


23 Aug 08 - 11:04 AM (#2420670)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

Bee
I looked, now I have been stricken blind !!!
the image is burned into my head. I will not sleep tonight ... that is the scaries thing I have ever seen ...

I need a drink


23 Aug 08 - 11:11 AM (#2420674)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: gnu

J-O with fruit... isn't that a type of Asspic?


23 Aug 08 - 12:03 PM (#2420699)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Ebbie

lol

As it happens I don't eat jello- although I have drunk it very hot in the middle of winter. It's a quick warmer-upper.

The funny thing is that for the last year or so I've been making jello every week and taking it up the hill on music night. The host is legally blind- and as he says, Don't turn him loose with boiling water - and he likes jello. He is an autoharp player and not only does he like the taste of ALL flavors of jello, he swears that it keeps his fingernails heavy.

His wife feels about as you do, olddude, and she can't abide the stuff. So I am the one who makes it. We have a running joke about it. There is only one flavor that disturbs me when I'm stirring it- the Berry Blue (or something like that) has an acrid scent to me. But my friend likes it- so what can you do. :)


23 Aug 08 - 12:11 PM (#2420703)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Stilly River Sage

I consider this literary abuse. Jello? Give me a break!

I save Joseph Conrad for far more serious culinary emergencies, like the substitution of Miracle Whip for mayonnaise.

SRS


23 Aug 08 - 12:20 PM (#2420707)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Rapparee

You can buy a Jell-0 mold that looks like a human brain! Just imagine green jello in it! Or blue! Or sit a red jello brain on the table and watch it as it sloooooooowly melts....


23 Aug 08 - 12:21 PM (#2420708)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Olddude's problem is that he hasn't had the Jello presented in an appropriate form. For that, one needs a tasteful gelatin mold.


23 Aug 08 - 12:30 PM (#2420714)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Uncle_DaveO

Ebbie posted on the virtues of hot liquid Jell-O.

I remember with great relish and appreciation drinking hot Jell-O during a week on the glaciers of Mt. Rainier. Wonderful when you're cold, dehydrated, and hungry!

I'll pass on the cold squiggly stuff, though, either plain or with fruit or vegetables in it.

Dave Oesterreich


23 Aug 08 - 12:33 PM (#2420719)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

Drinking Hot Jello and lived to tell about it
now that is what I call tough ... OMG

I hope it did not cause side effects like growing a second ear or something ... it could happen ya know


23 Aug 08 - 12:36 PM (#2420721)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Thankfully, I've been unable to find any evidence of the existence of gelatin molds in the shapes of either Barney the Purple Dinosaur or Telletubbies.


23 Aug 08 - 12:48 PM (#2420731)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: ClaireBear

One of my finest childhood memories is something I experienced many times while tenting with my folks in Sequoia National Park, where the rivers are always icy. At home we never had any kind of dessert, but on camping trips my mother would often make up a batch of Jell-O in a screw-top canning jar. She'd then close it up tightly and set it in the river (in a net beg, weighted down with a rock). It'd be firm in just a few minutes, ready for hungry kiddies like me.

By the way, the river also chills beer to perfection -- and that would my camping dessert of choice these days.

C


23 Aug 08 - 12:53 PM (#2420734)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Bee

Gelatin as floral arrangement.

href="http://www.gelartfloral.com/technique.html">http://www.gelartfloral.com/technique.html


23 Aug 08 - 01:15 PM (#2420752)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: RangerSteve

I like Jello. Lime with canned pineapple. Cherry with canned peaches. And I don't care what anyone else thinks.


23 Aug 08 - 01:15 PM (#2420753)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Stilly River Sage

Here it is.

the other one missed a bracket.


23 Aug 08 - 01:33 PM (#2420762)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Little Hawk

My grandfather found Jell-O horrifying too, olddude. Why? Because it wiggles and jiggles! He was convinced that it was still alive and regarded it as if it were some kind of monster from a bad 50's horror flick like "The Blob". He felt that it might attack at any moment.

Did you know that if you overdo the proportion of jello powder in the mix that you can come up with stuff that's so firm that it will bounce like a crazy ball? You can cast it in round balls and bounce them around to excite the dachshund. (Just picture a jello ball the size of a basketball....and think of what fun you could have with such an item.)

But if one of them gets lost under the sofa you may find it weeks later when dusting, and it's a pretty disgusting sight by that time, let me tell you.


23 Aug 08 - 02:07 PM (#2420778)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Bee

Must be seen to be believed: San Francisco in Jello. She has others as well.

http://www.lizhickok.com/portfolio_jello.html

(Thanks for fixing the other link, SRS)


23 Aug 08 - 02:08 PM (#2420780)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

Bee
I love my little old weiner dog Doolie, I could never expose him to the terrors of Jell-O. That would be cruel . Ranger Rick be afraid, very afraid. Sometime during the night the stuff comes alive .. it does - I am sure of it ... Just like the blob in the 50's movie.


23 Aug 08 - 03:43 PM (#2420824)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: GUEST,frogprince, on Martha's Vineyard

Just got back from a flea market outing. Someone had what appeared to be a translucent plastic clothing manniquin torso, of the female variety. When I got closer, I saw that the back of the figure was open, and it was tagged "jello mold". After I cracked up, the owner admitted that it really was a manniquin variant, and he had just decided to have fun with the tag.


23 Aug 08 - 08:00 PM (#2420929)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: The Fooles Troupe

A while ago, there was a competition to see how much alcohol could be incorporated in what we Aussies call "Jelly" - the product burnt with a blue flame - not by itself, but would hold a flame ...


23 Aug 08 - 08:10 PM (#2420930)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: The Fooles Troupe

Jello is more common than you realise...

"By its very nature, Earth's reference frame is moderately uncertain no matter how it is defined," said Donald Argus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. "The problem is very much akin to measuring the center of mass of a glob of Jell-O, because Earth is constantly changing shape due to tectonic and climatic forces."


23 Aug 08 - 08:14 PM (#2420933)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Art Thieme

An early edition of MAD MAGAZINE featured tales of the creeping red death called DORMANT GOOKUM that slithered and slimed it's way inside anything through any possible opening and proceeded to do it's dirty work of enveloping and killing and then digesting everything in it's path. It was revealed at the end of the expose piece that this dormant gookum was really cherry Jell-o.

Thanks to this thread, that dumb memory is back up in my current consciousness. Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!

Art Thieme


23 Aug 08 - 08:30 PM (#2420938)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

It is my job Art
to share the horror of Jell-O
you are welcome

;-)


23 Aug 08 - 09:10 PM (#2420953)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Sorcha

My dad said he wouldn't eat anything more nervous than himself! (My mom used to make a lime jello 'salad' with shredded cabbage, 7-Up and cottage cheese!.) She only dared to take it to carry ins.


23 Aug 08 - 09:17 PM (#2420956)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

Sorcha,
you win, you beat Bee on the scariest image. I won't sleep tonight ..

Hey where is Severn tonight?
I am suprise he does not have a polka for me to listen to while the young girls do their jello jumping into the wading pool filled with the evil stuff


23 Aug 08 - 10:32 PM (#2420989)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Rapparee

Visit the Mudcat Tavern. There's a jell-o pit there, but you have to share it with the Giant Squid.


23 Aug 08 - 11:16 PM (#2421004)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

Mike
can I bring Cristi Brinkley ?


23 Aug 08 - 11:47 PM (#2421010)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Little Hawk

Why do I get the feeling Paris Hilton knows all about the alternative uses of jello?


24 Aug 08 - 12:21 AM (#2421026)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Art Thieme

yes


24 Aug 08 - 04:31 AM (#2421070)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Richard Bridge

Old dude, at your age is it really wise to frig every morning?


24 Aug 08 - 12:45 PM (#2421251)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Little Hawk

The world's most terrifying celebrity: Jello Biafra!


24 Aug 08 - 05:08 PM (#2421401)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: SINSULL

I love Jell-O. Jell-O shots - have not made those in ages. Maybe for the Getaway. Yet another way to slip something alcoholic past the keepers.


24 Aug 08 - 05:23 PM (#2421409)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: pdq

I realized how awful life could be if I pissed off my mon (at least for any exnded period of time) when she served lunch consisting of a pile of cole slaw next to a lump of lemon jello.


24 Aug 08 - 05:54 PM (#2421420)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

The vision of the lump of lemon Jello is disturbing ... it reminds me of my mom's with the pears stuck inside it screaming to get out. Like the pears had just been eating by the mass of giggling alien life from another galaxy. You have my sympathy PDQ


24 Aug 08 - 07:37 PM (#2421465)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: RangerSteve

something for you Jellophobes out there: http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knox/index.html

sorry, I can never get these blue clicky things to work. If someone can do it for me, I promise it'll be worth your while.


24 Aug 08 - 08:37 PM (#2421496)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knox/index.html

Ranger Steve
It is a modern horror show


25 Aug 08 - 08:57 AM (#2421703)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: SINSULL

One year my sister-in-law attempted to make Jell-O eASTER eGGS USING REAL EGGS AS THE MOLD - THE RECIPE CAME ON THE BOX.
dAMN cAPSLOCK!

Anyway...
She made pin holes in each end of the egg, stuck in a skewer to break the yolk, shook it up really well and blew out the contents. She should have let them dry out for a week or two because the Jell-O eggs were coated with egg slime - pretty but too revolting to eat even after washing.


25 Aug 08 - 09:26 AM (#2421713)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Little Hawk

You should have given them to a dachshund, then.


25 Aug 08 - 12:20 PM (#2421820)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Donuel

You all must have seen the movie BLOB as a kid.


25 Aug 08 - 02:42 PM (#2421902)
Subject: RE: BS: The Hurrah! - The Whore-er of Jell-O
From: Severn

Did somebody call for me upscroll?

If it behooves you, olddude, must I be the one to rescue you from a hospital-lunch-green fit of Jello-Sea?

I can send you some cassette tapes of the old Jack Benny radio shows when Jello was the sponsor and announcer Don Wilson used to read Jello recipes weekly on the air and see how many plugs for the sponsor he could work into the show.

Sandy & Jeanie Darlington on (Folk Legacy FSI-28) have an original song called "Jello" in which they pretty much feel the way you do. The great blues songwriter Willie Dixon, however, felt differently in "Shake For Me", as he wrote fondly about a "hip shakin' mama" who shook like a plate full of the stuff (Life through a rose colored gel, as it were). So there's both sides of the spectrum for you No red hot polka to stick you with this time and no Jello themed CDs, (or Jello Con-jerti) alas, like there was for a barbeque.

The Jello has yet to find its Yo Yo Ma, but it sure found "yo' mama"!

And thanks to Ferdinand Magellatin, it's a global phenomenon, though it tends to work better in a partially flat mold instead (Otherwise, it just rolls for a little while and then collapses, unless you use Little Hawk's recipe.).

Jello Shots, SINSULL? I'm sorry, but I cry every time when it comes to the part where they shoot "Ol' Jeller". You can call it what you want to, but Youth In Asia would have eaten him for dessert!


25 Aug 08 - 03:36 PM (#2421946)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Donuel

Bill? Bill Cosby is that you?


25 Aug 08 - 04:07 PM (#2421962)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

OMG
Severn is at it again.... can't stop laughing


25 Aug 08 - 04:12 PM (#2421969)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Jim Dixon

Olddude: Whatever you think of Jell-O, I congratulate you for spelling it correctly.


25 Aug 08 - 05:11 PM (#2422003)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

Thank you Jim, I thought I had better be precise in case there was a song called Jello that everyone liked, then I would be in trouble.


25 Aug 08 - 07:58 PM (#2422082)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: open mike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmCkjrimXXs
jell-o shots..an action-packed instructional video


28 Aug 08 - 01:14 PM (#2424510)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Lizzie Cornish 1

Heck...olddude has a Jelly Song! :0)

Jelly Jelly Jelly

Awww...I *like* it, Dan, it kinda makes you wobble when you listen..


28 Aug 08 - 11:24 PM (#2425097)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

That is funny Lizzie but it is the Jelly that you put on toast AHHH yea that is it, not the evil Jell-O my


29 Aug 08 - 12:24 AM (#2425120)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror of Jell-y-sy
From: Severn

If it were the same thing, Lizzie, I'd be eating peanut butter and Jell-o sandwiches and Jell-o beans while listening to Jell-o Roll Morton.

And God save us from Naval or Petroleum or KY Jello!


29 Aug 08 - 12:30 AM (#2425124)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: Alice

I thought the great scourge was Spam (the state food of Hawaii).


29 Aug 08 - 09:50 AM (#2425372)
Subject: RE: BS: The Horror - The Horror Jell-O
From: olddude

Alice
Noooooooo ! Spam is the cousin of the Hot Dog, well maybe second cousin, you must wisper, we can't have the hot dog hear you say that. It could cause a lot of world problems