• nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        My great aunt put them on a bed of lettuce with a layer or cottage cheese.

        We didn’t touch them either and always laughed at calling them salads too.

      • Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com
        820·
        6 months ago

        But-but-but America bad!

        Seriously though, are Europeans so desperate to stroke their egos that they need to make fun of a trend so old it’s slipping from living memory?

        • Dasus@lemmy.world
          133·
          6 months ago

          https://lemmy.ca/comment/8745479

          I feel like a thing isn’t “slipping from living memory” when it’s still being used to the extent that non-nationals even know the usage.

          Why does saying that ‘calling Jello a “salad” is weird’ mean “America bad”?

          Seems like you’re a bit sensitive about this topic…

    • jjagaimo@lemmy.caEnglish
      121·
      6 months ago

      Probably something to do with the great depression and needing to make cheap foods interesting

      Something to do with women having to make things look less lazy/not just serving ready made things, and like they put work into making food in the post ww1 period. Recipe books tended to have the crazier stuff trying to get you to use more of their other products

      • Krauerking@lemy.lol
        4·
        6 months ago

        I think people forget how much MRE style preserved food drove the nation for a bit and why a lot of good cooking was lost for a period.

        Than maximalist cooking using all theass produced food followed and it’s all atrocities for a while.

    • scoobford@lemmy.zip
      41·
      6 months ago

      Salads are just cold foods chopped up and mixed together with some kind of dressing. I.e. fruit salad, caprese salad, egg/chicken/tuna salad, etc.

      Using gelatin as the “dressing” is a regional thing. This would be called strawberry cumfart jello here, not strawberry cumfart salad.

      I also think only very old people still eat this shit. Gelatin in general is much less popular among young people, who want their food to vaguely resemble food.

    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
      15·
      6 months ago

      “Salad” doesn’t mean healthy, it just means “item + goo.” Sometimes it’s veggies and dressing. Sometimes it’s fruit and their own juices. Ham, tuna, egg or chicken salad is just those items plus mayo. Add relish, celery and onions if you’re fancy. Sweet jello salads are jello chunks mixed with cool whip, fruit and nuts if you’re fancy. In a savory jello salad the jello is the goo and random bits of what ever veg and/or meat was in the fridge are the item.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        “Salad” doesn’t mean healthy, it just means "item + goo

        Yeah apparently we’re using very different definitions on this side of the Atlantic.

        a cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked vegetables, usually seasoned with oil, vinegar, or other dressing and sometimes accompanied by meat, fish, or other ingredients.

        • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          The Midwest US is pretty well known for their “salads” of whatever the fuck gelatinous mess they want to throw together. It’s a loose definition of salad.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        52·
        6 months ago

        What…?

        My problem isn’t whether it’s s main dish or not (and are you not aware salads can be main dishes?), my problem is that it’s sugary jell-o in cake form. Sort of the opposite of a salad.

  • Lemmeenym@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    6 months ago

    It’s fake. It looks like that so she can bring the same one to every picnic.

  • Maxnmy's@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    We used to have a jello mold like that, but we didn’t make them with the color and texture of flesh.

  • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml
    143·
    6 months ago

    This is ai generated right? Like someone told chatgpt to cross a butthole with a jello right? No one would actually create something this terrible?

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
        4·
        6 months ago

        The butthole of yesterday always seems more delicious than the one in front of you.

        (Damn, sometimes I accidentally compile a random assortment of words into something so profoundly wise I scare myself)

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      6 months ago

      Maybe it was unintentional. You can’t see what the topside of your jellymold will look like before it’s inverted, so they could have tried for a floral pink effect and taking this picture shows they have a sense of humor about their failure.