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The trifle that I have had doesn't have any jello in it, but rather cake, pudding, and fruit (strawberries) all together in one dish so that it kinda merges together. Its good stuff.
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I find the fascination with green jello to be particularly amusing, because as I've learned since marrying my dear Vana, there is nothing more Swedish Lutheran than red jello.
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Our trifle has rasberry jello, rasberries, custard, and bananas stacked in a trifle dish lined with lady fingers with whipped cream on top of the whole thing. Mmmmmmmmmm...good. Even with the bananas, which I just pick out.
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I’ve been to enough Southern Baptist potlucks to know who the true kings of the green jello are. Mormons are, I’m sorry to say, Johnny- come- latelies, with your fancy dancy pineapple and carrots. Oh, we also invented carrot and raisin salad. Blech.
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I have talked about this for years, recalling this bizarre dessert that I had at a LDS function that basically involved my entire town -- it was held outdoors at the stake [roughly = to a diocese] ranch/farm and there were two very long rows of tables of food. There were 5 or 6 tables for just dessert.
Anyway, no one that I've brought this up with [and believe me weird Mormon desserts a somewhat frequent topic of conversation in both my family and peer group] knows what the heck I'm talking about. But yes, I remember seeing several rectangular pans of white or yellow box cakes that had had wholes pokes in them and Jello poured over them. Very strange. Repellant even.
EDIT: I feel completely validated.
And: the only true Jello dish is cherry served with real cream that has been whipped with a little sugar and a fair amount of vanilla.
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I'm afraid, JonBoy, that you have fallen prey to a Mormon cultural pseudo-doctrine based on a Brigham Young quote that was completely taken out of context as well as what turned out to be spurious comments made by Parley P. Pratt in the Millenial Star during the brief time he edited it -- comments that he later repudiated and acknowledged as based solely on speculation
Scriptural evidence as well as modern revelation clearly states that cherry Jello is the only true restored Jello of the dispensation of the fulness of times and that real whipped cream [no Redi-Whip or Cool Whip] is the Lord's own topping.
And turning Jello into salad by putting vegetables -- esp. carrots -- or fruit -- esp. pineapple -- or cottage cheese in it is simply wrong and one of the abominations referred to by Paul in his epistle to Timothy.
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The Baptists did NOT invent carrot raisin salad. It's North African. However, you were most likely the first ones to put mayonnaisy products in it rather than honey and cinnamon. Blasphemers.
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Except for the recipe my granny taught me. (non-denominational/methodisty granny - the other was LDS)
Lime jello mix combined with cottage cheese, cool whip and mandarin oranges. Nummy.
Sugar high - here we come!
The LDS granny did not stoop to such desserts as jello, ever! She made homemade pie crust, peeled and cored, sliced and diced, seasoned and spiced some of the best apple pies you have ever tasted. And pumpkin. And berry, and . . . ohhh - sigh of contentment at memories. Posts: 5609 | Registered: Jan 2003
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Oh, yeah, Zal? Well, I think you should take your tax-hiking, government-expanding, Pepsi-drinking, sushi-eating, import-driving, Sunstone-reading, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont, where it belongs.
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quote:While it is setting, you mix some shredded pineapple into the jello left in the bowl. Then, you spread a layer of sour cream on top of the jelled jello, and then pour the jello with pineapple on top and let it jell.
Just don't try putting fresh pineapple in jello - it will never jell. Posts: 5771 | Registered: Nov 2000
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First of all, trifle is just plain disgusting. Had a roommate make it for us once and it was just stomach-turning wrong in all sorts of ways.
Secondly, what you guys have been referring to as "poke cake" is an actual Jell-o recipe distributed by the Jell-o company. I made it for three years at the restaurant I worked at in High School.
Last thing I'll say about Jell-o is my Mom's recipe for three color Jell-o salad makes all ya'lls stuff look like congealed puke. Every year she makes it for Thanksgiving. Green on the bottom. Red on the top. The middle layer is her secret. All I know is it involves cream cheese and pineapple. Absolutely Fabulous.
Sunstone types believe that all Jellos are of equal value and that there should be room for many different types of Jellos, even those that are rubbery or don't set completely or are mixed with walnuts and sour cream. In fact, they encourage Jello experimentation. However, while they give lip service to Jello diversity, in reality they look down on those orthodox Jello enthusiasts who shy away from complex Jello dishes and instead choose to eat Jello plain (or with a dollop of whipped cream).
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My grandma made a jello-mixture with whipped cream and cottage cheese that my dad dubbed "Throw-up pudding" when he was about four. The name stuck.
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I believe I've dined on that cottage-cheese/jello monstrosity. But not since the days those primary-color unbreakable plastic kid's cups were 'in'.
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Phil: Because of your willingness to believe in the true way of gelatin, I am able to give you an exlusive discount on my seminar tape series "Unleashing the Power of Cherry Jello." That's right, for only $599.95, I will send you the complete four-tape set. Plus if you act now, I will also include "The True Way of Fanta Fruit Punch Concentrate" and "The Seven Highly Effective Forms of Funeral Potatoes" -- for FREE! That's three seminars for the price of one.
Kat: There's nothing to be freaked out about. I use my powers for good. Plus -- It's all surface. Heck, while I have heard or read a lot of talk about Sunstone, I've only read 4 articles from it -- and one of those was actually a play, and the other three were all literary-related.
Ic: Coming from a member of the CFC -- the home of Chris Bridges, former home of Bob Scopatz, not to mention you and your occassional zingers -- I take that as high compliment.
JB: It's good to be a Grammar Guru. I give you props for that. But never mess with The Master of Discourse.
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