{"id":13127,"date":"2011-12-14T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13127"},"modified":"2013-11-09T04:53:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T09:53:02","slug":"jell-o-for-salads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/12\/14\/jell-o-for-salads\/","title":{"rendered":"JELL-O For Salads!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It&#8217;s been way too long since we&#8217;ve talked about one of my favorite foods-lost-to-history: vegetable flavored Jell-O. \u00a0I added some more examples to the end. \u00a0They&#8217;re truly awe-some. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another great example of how tastes are shaped by history: JELL-O in the flavor of celery, seasoned tomato, mixed vegetable, and italian:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13128\" title=\"jello\" alt=\"jello\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/jello.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A box of various flavors:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/12.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41993\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/12.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/12.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/12-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you do with it? Well, fill it with things like chopped celery, olives with pimento, and squares of&#8230; something:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13131\" title=\"3882147687_abb2c645d9_o\" alt=\"3882147687_abb2c645d9_o\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/3882147687_abb2c645d9_o.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"483\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/21.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/21.jpg\" width=\"438\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, um, tuna&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18491\" title=\"apday07011949022m32b1fd\" alt=\"apday07011949022m32b1fd\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/apday07011949022m32b1fd-502x1024.jpg\" width=\"456\" height=\"976\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget the hard-boiled eggs:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/31.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41995\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/31.jpg\" width=\"511\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/31.jpg 710w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/31-500x647.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also our post on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/15\/the-icky-era-of-aspic\/\" target=\"_self\">aspic, meat-flavored gelatin foods<\/a>. \u00a0And, for fun, here&#8217;s a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/04\/nyregion\/04jello.html?_r=1&amp;ref=dining\" target=\"_blank\">history of JELL-O<\/a> that includes a brief description of how you would have to make it if you had to make it from scratch, which will leave you wondering how we ever bothered to invent and make gelatin to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>(Ads found at <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/vintage_ads\/1324741.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/vintage_ads\/1591705.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/vintage-ads.livejournal.com\/2978798.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/vintage-ads.livejournal.com\/2981770.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diet-blog.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/26\/celery_and_tomato_flavored_jello.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been way too long since we&#8217;ve talked about one of my favorite foods-lost-to-history: vegetable flavored Jell-O. \u00a0I added some more examples to the end. \u00a0They&#8217;re truly awe-some. Another great example of how tastes are shaped by history: JELL-O in the flavor of celery, seasoned tomato, mixed vegetable, and italian: A box of various flavors: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,253,23705],"class_list":["post-13127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-history","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13127"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58573,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions\/58573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}