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It's a lot of work to make. And then you still have to wait HOURS for it to set.

― Curt, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it worth the trouble???

― Curt, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not if you put raisins in it. Yech.

Maraschino cherries, however, are mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

― xwerxes, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread isn't about jel?

― ethan, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blech, it's the worst. It does look pretty, though.

― Sean, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, it isn't? I thought by referring to him as "Jel-lo" (but with a misplaced hyphen), Curt was making a snide comment about his backside. Which made me think of cherries.

― xwerxes, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If I can borrow a slogan from Twizzlers *pauses* it Makes Mouths Happy!

― Curt, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We call it jelly.

In what slacker hell is it 'a lot of work to make'?

― N., Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh shit, memories of poor people.....dirty ass skid I had nothing in common with yet for some reason hung with for a short period in highschool went to some mall buffet with me....he actually got quite annoyed when he saw me stocking up on grape jello.....i'm like Who gives a shit man.....he goes "this is a buffet man, why you filling up on that? all that jello problee costs about 5 cents, get some more entree or some soft serve, get your money's worth".....made sense, actually, but still irritated me.....he got me into Spice 1, Ill give him that

― Ramosi, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well first I'd have to find out how to make it, and then I'd have to make it. Jesus you think I'm delia smith or something???

― Ronan, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For a minute I thought..."this is it jel, your moment in the lime- light"...oh well :)...

Jelly and custard = RoXoR! It is worth the wait!

Don't really like any Jelly except for Strawberry flavour.

― jel --, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well first I'd have to find out how to make it, and then I'd have to make it. Jesus you think I'm delia smith or something???

It says it on the boX(or)! You pour boiling water on cubes! That is all!!!

My mum used to put tinned mandarin orange pieces in orange jelly when I was little - is this because we were poorish and northern or was it a delicacy, d'you think?

― Ellie, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My Mum did this as well and she was well-off-ish - though originally Northern so maybe it was a universal. A pox on her for doing it though as it was less than the sum of its parts.

― Tom, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my grandma used to make that for me, lovely, yet my cockney Auntie used to put madeira cake at the bottom of the bowl of jelly when she mmade it, this was a little odd, maybe an approximation of trifle.

― chris, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum used to do this BUT WITH REAL SATSUMA PIECES. We were clearly very very posh. Actually, I think it's much nicer with tinned mandarin - real satsumas are too tart for this purpose.

― N., Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes of course N. is right! My Mum used real pieces too! That's why I didn't like it since the idea of tinned pieces and jelly seems numful to my adult brain.

Jelly is great - even I can make it Ronan.

― Tom, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Real satsumas!!!!! posh gits.

― chris, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and all this talk of jelly reminds me that ATP is just around the corner. mmmm vodka jelly num num

may branch out into alternatives this time though, poss Tequila.

― chris, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

obviously i don't eat jelly (unless it is that veggie stuff which is actually quite tasty esp. with soya ice cream mmmmmm but i digress) but have you noticed how lately, the manufacturers have to label it "pork gelatine" or whatever instead of just "gelatine"? perhaps for kosher or halal reasons... oh well. anyway my mum EATS raw cubes of the stuff. she says it makes her nails stronger. *shudder*

― katie, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh come on, everyone eats raw jelly cubes*. It's prime num num. Never heard of the nail strengthening justification.

*actually I haven't since I was 14 and became a half-hearted vegetarian who eats fish and wine gums.

― N., Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eating jelly cubes = viscous wee

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In what slacker hell is it 'a lot of work to make'?

Considering all the measuring and boiling and stirring (two whole minutes!) and pouring, and all the dirty dishes you wind up with, isn't the result kind of ordinary? That much effort should at least produce something you can't see through.

― Curt, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess I could make it, I'm probably just not arsed. I like jelly but I can safely say I won't make any in the next 5 or maybe 10 years. Think how much ice cream I could shovel into myself in the time it takes to make jelly, and that'd be from the comfort of the couch.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jelly is great - even I can make it Ronan.

I am overawed by Tom's mad Franksteinian culinary skills.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think you're ready for Tom's jelly. Neither am I.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ARGH.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

just remember: the darker the Jell-o, the more stuff you can hide in it.

the reverse corollary to this is the stupendous success enjoyed by a friend of my mother's, who, when invited to a potluck at our house, brought a huge jello in the shape of a GUITAR and had embedded CHRISTMAS LIGHTS deep within it, which sparkled and shone thru when the dish was "plugged in".

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I built an iMac out of jello once, for a contest sponsored by Apple. The winner got a free iMac (back when the old iMac came out.) Mine had circuitboards embedded in it and everything, but it collapsed. Eventually my team gave up, and submitted what we called the Open-Source jMac.

The judges were not amused.

gk

― geeta, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer, I don't know what I'd rather - that this actually happened, or that you (someone) has an imagination fertile enough to make that up. The real question, though, is were there also mandarin segments in there? Tinned or real?

― Ellie, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no, it was real... all too real... no mandarin segments (thankfully), just PIECES OF ELVIS'S SOUL (it was a tribute to the King. she should have had a plug-in radio playing a tinny version of hound dog too... all-singing all-dancing jello-o molds haunted my dreams...)

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Christmas lights thang is brilliant, but doesn't jelly conduct electricity being largely water and that?

― RickyT, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmm jelly with tinned fruit in. Mmm jelly cubes straight from box (in small quantities).

and all this talk of jelly reminds me that ATP

WAAAAAAH. I was asked by loads of people I'd seen at the last ATP (er, well, three) whether I was going this year, as well. I'm going to cry now. No, I can't, I have no money and my chalet-mates from the last two years aren't going, don't rub it in, blub. I so so sooooo wanted to see Oxes when they came over but I won't see them at ATP and I don't know when their other UK dates are because BigSmoke haven't updated their website and the tour manager's already left and they're probably all in places I can't get to so I won't be able to go anyway and it's not fair I want to see Oxes and and and... erm. Sorry. Yes. *cries more quietly in the corner*

― Rebecca, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

asked by loads of people I saw last time *on Thursday*. yes. so struck with envy that I couldn't type. er, carry on...

― Rebecca, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

colloid conductivity pointers for rickyT

(arthur eddington btw the way is the guy who first said that thing about monkeys and typewriters and shakespeare: what's cool is that he described the monkeys as STRUMMING their typewriters)

― mark s, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Dead Kennedys were okay but I don't really dig his spoken word stuff.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheers Mark. No information on the extent to which solid emulsions of water + something else conduct tho.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"something else" = horse hooves and strawberry flavoring IIRC. elvis would have loved it. (no one was shocked, btw. at least not like that.)

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No. My grandmother used to make Jello with peas and carrots in it. :(

― Mandee, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mom made yummy lime jello with grated carrots and pineapple in it. It looked neat, and the carrots gave it needed texture.

― Curt, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My brother used to LOVE drinking raw, unjelled Jell-O. We could have a whole thread devoted to his freakish childhood food obsessions.

― Michael Daddino, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

This stuff makes me very sad.

― Abbott loves her turtle (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 21:16 (seventeen years ago)

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