Green Jello With Carrots
We had a potluck today at the office. People brought meatballs, spaghetti, desserts of all varities. I brought an oldie but a goodie: green jello with carrots.
This delicious item falls under the category "Funeral Food" because there was a time from about 1938 until 1990 that you could not attend a funeral lunch without seeing at minimum one and often many more jellos with vegetables inside.
Many of my co-workers laughed at my creation, but others helped themselves to generous portions and told stories of eating it growing up.
Thankfully, I didn't indulge the old-school style of adding not only carrots but also cabbage, celery, olives and a reservoir of mayonnaise in the middle of the jello. I'm told this creation was called Perfection Salad.
At least they weren't shy about the name.
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