No such luck, though. The lemon Jell-O might look like a red flavor, but that's just because it's colored with beet juice! Add vinegar, diced beets and cucumbers, a bit of minced onion, and plenty of horseradish, and those little stars will be an unpleasant surprise for any midwestern kid who is used to "salad" being a code word for dessert when Jell-O is involved. Merry Christmas!
The reverse side gives you a green mold to pair with the red. (Well, it's gray in the picture, but I assume it would be green in real life.)
All those grapes and cherries in the middle probably make you think sweet, right? Well, not so much....
The lemon Jell-O gets filled out with equal parts mayonnaise, avocado, and whipped cream... So maybe weirdly green mayo, without an herbaceous flavor one might expect? Or maybe overly goopy avocado? In any case, it's sure to distract you from noticing that the cherries and grapes have been marinated in French dressing until after you've put some on your plate and know you can't dump them back... At least, not while anyone else is watching.
Maybe this is a holiday spread for somebody who wishes every day were April Fool's Day? Hopefully the guests will know enough to watch out for tricks...
Geez, I wonder why cherries and grapes marinated in French dressing never caught on. Was there a lot of holiday booze consumed before the cooks came up with these winners? Or maybe their goal was to have guests leave so they could drink in peace.
ReplyDeleteI think marinating random things in dressing used to be pretty popular. There were so few ways to flavor food that French dressing was the only alternative to salt, pepper, or sugar. (I'm not saying it was better than those others-- I guess people just got bored and didn't know what else to do.)
DeleteI am seriously convinced that the massive rise of cigarettes changed cooking. Like, a lot of those seem like the flavors would add up if your house had a midcentury tobacco haze.
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