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Some educational jello
Nov. 25th, 2021 10:23 amI don't like jello. I think I can tolerate the texture now, but it was off the menu for me when I was a kid.
We were given a pamphlet of jello recipes to choose from. I still remember the one which had slices of cream cheese with pimento symmetrically arranged for ornamentation embedded in it, but since I wasn't planning to eat it, I chose the best-looking one-- green jello with canned pineapple and mint extract. Thinking about it now, I'm a fairly adventurous eater, but I'm not sure mint and pineapple would be a good combination.
As many of you might know, you can't use fresh pineapple with jello, it won't set.
Here's where I learned the thing I will never forget-- I assumed the mint extract would have a top with a little hole so that it would come out in small quantities. It didn't. Half the small bottle went into the jello. I made it anyway. It didn't occur to me to even ask if I could start over.
It was so strong I sat upwind of it.
But, and here's the other thing worth knowing, a few classmates came around for seconds and thirds. One of them said it tasted like chewing gum. So the thing worth knowing is that there are outliers. Maybe you can connect with them.
It's funny that I couldn't even take the smell, considering that one of the quests of my youth was finding stronger mints. Altoids curiously strong mints are false advertising for me. Vick's ice blue cough drops were the best.
We were given a pamphlet of jello recipes to choose from. I still remember the one which had slices of cream cheese with pimento symmetrically arranged for ornamentation embedded in it, but since I wasn't planning to eat it, I chose the best-looking one-- green jello with canned pineapple and mint extract. Thinking about it now, I'm a fairly adventurous eater, but I'm not sure mint and pineapple would be a good combination.
As many of you might know, you can't use fresh pineapple with jello, it won't set.
Here's where I learned the thing I will never forget-- I assumed the mint extract would have a top with a little hole so that it would come out in small quantities. It didn't. Half the small bottle went into the jello. I made it anyway. It didn't occur to me to even ask if I could start over.
It was so strong I sat upwind of it.
But, and here's the other thing worth knowing, a few classmates came around for seconds and thirds. One of them said it tasted like chewing gum. So the thing worth knowing is that there are outliers. Maybe you can connect with them.
It's funny that I couldn't even take the smell, considering that one of the quests of my youth was finding stronger mints. Altoids curiously strong mints are false advertising for me. Vick's ice blue cough drops were the best.
