speaking of weird food.....

[Kimmie]

Book Description
The author of SPAM: A Biography is back again-This time with the definitive biography of an even bigger edible American icon: JELL-0!

Who didn't grow up on JELL-O gelatin? Hospitals dished it out after your tonsils were removed and Mom always had a box stashed away in case of a dessert emergency.

For more than one hundred years, Jell-O has reigned as "America's Most Famous Dessert," selling more than one million packages a day and more than 500 million each year.

But where and when and how did it all begin? No one is more qualified than junk food authority Carolyn Wyman to tell the whole amazing truth of this fruit flavored dessert.

Complete with over two hundred photographs and illustrations, JELL-O: A Biography uncovers everything from the history of the product and its marketing and sales strategies through the year to off-the-wall recipes and alternative uses such as Jell-O shots and Jell-O wrestling.

Jell-O is not just a food product, it is part of America's history and culture. Painstakingly researched and playfully presented, JELL-O: A Biography is the sweet story of the primordial slime's success and a fabulously entertaining read. After all, there's always room for Jell-O.

AMAZING BUT TRUE: Little-known facts about America's Most Famous Dessert -- By the 1920s Jell-O was served as a good ol' American welcome treat to immigrants at Ellis Island. --Though Jell-O sponsored his radio show for years, according to his wife, Jack Benny "never ate the stuff." --Who does eat it? Residents of Salt Lake City and Des Moines are neck-and-neck in annual Jell-O consumption-a competition they take very seriously. --As a teenager, actor John Malkovich lost 70 pounds in 6 months on a Jell-O only diet. --In Cecil B. De Mille's 1923 production of The Ten Commandments, Moses's parted Red Sea was created by superimposing running actors onto footage of a quivering strawberry Jell-O mold. --A salad or a dessert? The great debate continues . . . 2-color/200 photos & illustrations

[blueribboncakes]

It's from the Sixties and one of the recipes includes using jello with fish. eek!

[Athenaeus]

Now I found out!!!

Jello is something that can be fried, it has a biography (in the States...) , people buy books to read this biography but the most interesting uses of jello can not be described in this forum!

Ok! What ever you say!

[nancya]

Athenaeus --- are you saying that you don't know what Jello is? I didn't think about the possible language barrier there.

Jello is fruit flavored [well there used to vegetable flavored too] gelatin. The, uh, wiggly, giggly fruit flavored snack.

"There's always room for Jell-O"

[Athenaeus]

Nancy!

From what I hear here, there MUST be another way to find out than plain descriptions.
The one that "My fair Lady " used to sing

"Show me"!!!

[Papa]

Dear Athenaeus:

Do not worry. They are millions of us around. It took me thirteen years of living in the States to encounter the "staff". It is not a "pretty picture". Believe me!

I love America despite its Jello!

I think that I will stick with kokoretsi!

As for the other practical applications of Jello..... I still think that fresh cream tastes better!

[Kimmie]

Now now, Papa! We are getting sophisticated!!

[Athenaeus]

Well,

since I love learning new things, I will try the jello when I find out by myself what it is, unless someone shows me.

My God!
I cannot be away for some days and you started partying without me.
Papa!
My my!
Cape Chef!! My my too.

Athenaeus, leave the sophistication to Kimmie. I can show you what jello is and how you can cook it.
I am an expert in various ways of cooking and using jello!

[Mezzaluna]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Brits call it "Jelly". "Jello is a brand name for sweetened gelatin. An American original, unique (for the most part) to our land- Thank God!

[Kimmie]

Mr. Bond,

Seems to me you're quite an expert in many fields...so YOU say!

and don't be tempted to call me SPIKY Kimmie!!

[Nicko]

Suzanne,

I don't know about the rest of the world, but quite a few Mexican restaurants serve fried ice cream around here and it is really good. When I was 13 I was a bus boy at a Mexican restaurant and they used to serve it there. Basically they took vanilla icecream formed it into a large ball and coated it with corn flakes, and placed it in a deep freeze (quite a bit colder than your average freezer). After a couple days they they fried it for a short time and drizzled hot chocolate sauce and honey over it. It was a huge seller. Warm and crispy on the outside and then the fresh taste of the ice cream on the inside.

It was good.

Farmentamina!! (You see Athenaeus I know Latin too)

I am not an expert in creme fresh, I am sorry.

Athenaeus is an innocent girl I cannot leave her to cc...

It's just another mission

I call you spicy and not spiky Kimmie and the more I am getting to know you the more I am positive about that

[Kimmie]

I'm also a «hot dish»...

Crème fraîche is very much like sour cream yet it is softer and has a little more tang. Try whipping it with a little bit of sugar for tangy whipped cream!

[Suzanne]

I only meant why would anyone want to deep fry Jell-O (my favorite flavor when I was little)? I think fried ice cream and even fried candy bars (as in the chip shops) are lots of fun!

No, no, I only questioned the frying of Jell-O. It makes me think of Chinese soup buns, but without the yummy filling -- which is as important as the spurt of melted stock -- and sort of not all there.

But I must say, I'm shocked at the innuendo that has cropped into this conversation! Well, I guess when one is not allowed to say "sex" the double-entendres take over. (OH ... when I just previewed this, I was allowed to say it!) So much for that...!