This is why Ameircans aren’t allowed to make fun of British food.
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BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jello_salad
Jello salad is an American salad made with flavored gelatin, fruit, and sometimes grated carrots or (more rarely) other vegetables. Other ingredients may include cottage cheese, cream cheese, marshmallows, nuts, or pretzels. Jello salads were popular in the early 20th century and are now considered retro.
For those as lost (at first) and disgusted (from now one) as me.
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Americans reject most of that garbage from the 1950s-1970s.
Where British people are jolly excited over bread on bread sandwich
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
And they dare to make fun of Germans and their Nudelsalat, Wurstsalat, etc
Schal330@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thanks for the description, I hate it just as much as the order of the panels in the picture.
BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Right? It is like someone anticipated the “random bullshit go” meme in the 1920s while on drugs, and just went to the kitchen and created that.
I feel the rest of the world is not making enough fun of american cuisine yet. There is still need for more.
TIN@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I’m from the UK and we get our food dissed all the time, at length. By people who have invented jello salad.
_skj@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Very few would include all of the things listed above and I’ve never actually seen veggies in one.
The one my family makes is just a dessert that’s primarily jello with a thin layer of cream cheese and pretzels. Has a nice combo of salty and sweet.
Not sure why people are so grossed out by that, what’s wrong with it?
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
In my family it was jello, half of the half-set jello was mixed with whipped cream, other half cut into chunks, then mix in marshmallows, and fruit, and let it all set up.
I’ve never seen jello salad with cheese, veg, or nuts or anything, that’s wild, just cuz I’ve never seen it before.
BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gelatine and calling it a salad, that’s what. At least for me.
_skj@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Salad doesn’t mean vegetables. Salad is a dish made of a mixture of discrete pieces. See other things like potato salad, macaroni salad, tuna salad, antipasto salad, caprese salad, etc. You’re going to have a lot of food hangups if this bothers you.