Aspic/Jello Molds

[Anonymous No.15956445]

Why did people actually eat this shit in the last mid-century? I usually don’t shit on a category of food as a whole, but I can’t imagine it being palatable or having any desirable features aside from novelty.

Has anyone here ever tasted a jello mold salad or dish?

[Anonymous No.15956459]

>>15956445
It actually looks pretty tasty. I'd put bits of it on crackers.

[Anonymous No.15956504]

it was a sign of wealth because you needed to have refrigerator to make it and only the wealthy had them initially . probably why it wasn’t big in euro land

[Anonymous No.15956517]

>>15956504
Interesting, thank you anon. I assumed it had to do with presentation and hosting

>>15956459
Maybe a tiny bit on a cracker....maybe. I wonder what the gelatin tastes like, or if it’s just a pop of hotdog and olive in between tasteless jello

[Anonymous No.15956587]

>>15956504
>it was a sign of wealth
Literally the opposite.
They first became popular during the depression-recovery because jello was a new thing and cheap as fuck.
So the people eating it during the 50’s did so because it was a nostalgic childhood food for them.
In the 30’s, “iceboxes” were common as fuck except for rural people, and by the end of the 30’s like half of Americans owned an electric fridge.

[Anonymous No.15956637]

>>15956445
that's the "canned food" era, post ww2. Mass production of preserved foods made them cheap so popular magazines like good housekeeping make plenty of recipes focusing on shit like hot dogs and gelatin just because that's what flooded the market.

[Anonymous No.15956885]

>>15956587
this

it was basically something working class and lower middle class people did to feel fancy. fresh produce was not available but canning fruits and meats was taking off.

jello was first popularized by traveling salesmen who targeted working class neighborhoods specifically by providing more than average free samples to people who were experiencing food shortages. and they would pass out little recipe books with their free samples.

i learned all this at the jello museum btw. it is a converted house in buttfuck new york that is basically one room full of jello shit. it has a crt monitor that plays the cosby ads constantly and you can buy underwear that says 'watch it wiggle, watch it jiggle'

if you want to break up with your gf it's a good place to do it

[Anonymous No.15956918]

Nobody ate this nasty ass shit but white Americans dying to have some form of “culture.”

[Anonymous No.15957022]

>>15956918
Yes Jamal, that's very impressive, here's your welfare check, try not to beat your baby momma in public this week, ok champ?

[Anonymous No.15957039]

>>15956504
it was a sign of wealth a very long time ago but by the 1930s when refrigeration became available it was because it was cheap. it was only really a sign of wealth before then.

[Anonymous No.15957048]

>>15956445
Just look at those hot dogs standing up like majestic cocks paired with the olives that look like prolapsed assholes. Who wouldn't want to eat that?

[Anonymous No.15958701]

>>15956885
>if you want to break up with your gf it's a good place to do it
i burst out laughing at this, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.15958935]

Aspic used to be fancy because it involved boiling cartilage for hours, then filtering the resulting liquid via various methods (otherwise every aspic dish would taste like bone broth).
Only rich households could afford it.
Instant gelatin made aspic available to the middle class.

[Anonymous No.15959434]

>>15958935
I didn't know that. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.15959447]

>>15956885
>you can buy underwear that says 'watch it wiggle, watch it jiggle'
That's something you get your gf if she's got a fat ass.

[Anonymous No.15959507]

>>15956885
This is a great post. I don't know if any of it is true but I don't care.

[Anonymous No.15959892]

I'm just old enough to remember this when it was a thing. One of my earliest memories was being at a buffet probably in the early 80's. There was a section where they had these gelatinous fish things and people were obviously turned off by them, and commenting about it.

[Anonymous No.15959906]

>>15956885
>if you want to break up with your gf it's a good place to do it

killed me with this thanks anon here's a golden (You)

[Anonymous No.15960066]

>>15956885
This post is a fucking rollercoaster

[Anonymous No.15960128]

whenever i see this shit i imagine something /pol/cels would like because it seems like something they would see in an old book at their grandma's house and think that it is "muh culture" and therefore forcing themselves to make/eat it would feel to them like some kind of victory over liberals. if you are a /pol/cel and feel like you must reply to this post (i know you will), i'll just pre-emptively tell you that i have almost certainly been on this website a lot longer since when you found your way here from reddit in 2015 (long enough in fact to remember when people here actually fawned over stephen colbert and thought he was "one of us") so whatever you say will not really affect me, and that trump stole your money and never cared about you, and you probably will be eating bugs in 10 years because it will be an ingredient in all your favourite ready-made frozen foods but you won't notice because you're used to eating low-quality filler anyway and you don't ever read ingredient lists. cope.

[Anonymous No.15960175]

autism above

[Anonymous No.15960535]

>>15956885
>one room
>constantly plays the Cosby ad
>underwear saying “watch it wiggle watch it jiggle”
I really want to go here. There’s a place in the Everglades called the Skunk Ape Museum where it also a single room with weird blurry ape suit photos and behind the store/museum there’s cages filled with uncared for parrots and pigs.

[Anonymous No.15961078]

>>15956587
prior to powdered gelatin to make an aspic you had to boil bones for hours and hours to get it, so yeah, it was a sign of wealth

[Anonymous No.15961095]

>>15956445
It's a pretty common use of odds and ends collected from pig leftovers in Eastern Europe. The best kinda to me taste like garlicy meat jello with corn beef floating around inside, and are very spreadable. Also, nice to throw in soup if you're low on bones or bullion or something

[Anonymous No.15961097]

>>15956445
I'm too sleepy to explain now the origins of this, but I find it hilarious how this is the new trend in Asian desserts. They're making some abominations with fruits suspended in jello sitting on a shortcrust base. It's really bizarre.

[Anonymous No.15961216]

>>15961078
>prior to powdered gelatin to make an aspic you had to boil bones for hours and hours to get it, so yeah, it was a sign of wealth
This. It was rich, delicious and healthy bone stock. There was usually a layer of gelatin over pate molds too.
I love a tomato aspic that my grandmother made with both lemon jello and knox plain, that was either enhanced with clamato or condensed beef. Mine is more to my tastes, with V8 and so much veggies that it's like a bloody mary or cold summer bowl of cucumber and pepper filled gazpacho.

[Anonymous No.15961231]

>>15956445
wasn't gelatin introduced in that novelty era, and they were just going crazy using it like people are now with fake-meat bullshit? lower your expectations lol

[Anonymous No.15961240]

>>15960128
huh?

[Anonymous No.15961384]

>>15956445
they were sorta fancy looking, and I heard it was a status symbol of the 50's
wasnt meant to taste good necessarily I suppose

[Anonymous No.15961394]

>>15956445
I've made aspics from really, really reduced stock and gelatin. It's like soup jello with stuff in it. Beef aspic with cherry peppers, on rye rusk with a bit of quark is fantastic.

[Anonymous No.15961490]

>>15960128
Are these "pol" people here now, in this room?

[Anonymous No.15961522]

>>15956885
have a (You)

[Anonymous No.15961564]

>>15956885
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