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It's similar to Aspic. It's gelatin mixed with anything else you find in the fridge. Used to be a very popular dish used to get rid of leftovers.

Gelatin was a new thing in the early 20th century, so using it this way started long before the 60s. A layered gelatin "salad" with cold meat and veggies was very refreshing on hot summer night for supper when most people did not have air-conditioning. My mother made tomato aspic in the summer and my grandmother made souse, which was chopped cooked leftover meat (usually pork roast) in a seasoned gelatin. We ate it with sliced tomatoes, lettuce and mayo for summer meals.

Actually the answer is really interesting. WW1 and WW2. it started WAY before the 60s, there was a shortage of good during the war, and jello became a famous sorta "make a meal outta nothing" filler. you could use it to turn your limited sugar into something nice, also basically turn what little savory variety into a whole spread. Housewives were expected to put a varied beautiful meal on the table, but the low supplies made that hard, so it was a way to put some variety on the table and make it look exciting with limited resources and time. It kinda became a staple of culture, until eventually it went outta fashion due to being perceived as unhealthy.

I have a terrifying and amazing Jello cookbook from the 60s. Lots of lemon and lime Jello filled with vegetables, meats, and mayo. They were definitely working hard to market it as fun, trendy, and classy. Lots of photos of people at swanky parties and candlelit dinners eating elaborate Jello dishes.

It was a fad. I believe that instant gelatin was new (and therefore exciting). It was cheap, quick and easy to make, and it kept for longer too. Mostly in America and Canada, I think.

Well it made food very 'space-age' looking which was huge at the time.

Bumper crop of cow hooves?

it was a cultural fad, not really that hard to understand.

Ugh, I do not know! I have a Jell-O cookbook from around that time and it leaves me absolutely bewildered every single time I see it. Plus, it's one thing to have gelatin with something sweet but these aspic dishes with meats and veggies are truly disgusting. The ONLY thing I could think of is that it keeps certain foods preserved for longer? And that it's more about the presentation than the taste.

Cheap protein and novel shapes and also ewwww

Yea second that fad part. Ignore the ppl who say it tastes good and is refreshing. It's not. It was just that gelatin used to be for rich ppl since the only way to get it was slow simmering of meats, but when instant powder gelatin became a thing everyone wanted to use it everywhere Also high class housewives were expected to provide novel meals daily but ppl back then were no different from now aka many were lazy and didn't know how to cook so dishes that were max novelty and minimum effort were ideal, and 80% of gelatin stuff is essentially mix dump and chill and you're done

It taste's like feet!!

Colour photographs in magazines, and suddenly almost everyone had a fridge

I remember a lime jello salad with cabbage my mom used to make......

LSD!

Cooks weren't; the gelatin companies were.

I got a "suggestion" for a FB group today- Show Us Your Aspics

...And nutmeg. Never forget the nutmeg.

A slice were very popular. They were savory gelatin.

Maybe it preserves the food so you can eat it later the week...maybe thats the reason? 🤔 Otherwise nö idea.. I hate gelatin....but love pudding.. Live🤷‍♀️😂

They were broke and it was cheap.

It's cheap. You make a large and somewhat fancy meal out of something very little

It was cheap

Yup!

why all recipes are obsessed with air fryer in 2020's ?

Because it was cheap, and is good for your joints and tissue.

It’s because it’s one of the only ways to preserve food outside of refrigeration, or canning, so people would just…shove their leftovers into bricks of gelatin. Either that, or the 60’s were secretly from hell.

They were also obsessed with it, in the 16th century.

Surely that is brawn, from meat.

Just like some jackass obsessed with sprinklering salt in the millennial

They were obsessed with Aspics

The same reason people today are obsessed with avocado and other ingredients recently available en mass

That's why everybody was so thin back then...from not eating this $hl+ when it was served at home or at dinner parties

Some American saw a French terrine and thought they could replicate it at home

Because inflation was crazy at the time. These "cakes" weren't served as food, but rather used as a display of wealth for guests. They would layer different types of food like this then seal it in gelatin so that it could be left out on a counter for several days while preserving its color and apparent freshness. It was never meant to be eaten, but rather to tell your guests that you had enough disposable income.