[mylife]

The year is 1956, we have the atom bomb, lime jello, mayonnaise and leprechauns with lucky charms...

[Viking2002]

GAAACCKKKKK! NOT THE GREEN LIME JELLO MOLD!!! NOOOOOOO!!!! 😲😲😲

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Ewwwwwwww!

[mewzilla]

Whatever happened to corned beef and cabbage and soda bread?

That’s what we’ve always done.

And we’re not even Irish.

[twister881]

As if corned beef and cabbage weren’t bad enough, green, gunky slime for your St. Patrick’s Day pleasure.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Shades of my mother’s cooking. 😆

[twister881]

Q: What’s green, five miles long, and has an @$$hole every three feet?

A: A St. Patrick’s Day parade

[dfwgator]

Best Irish Drinking Songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPhckJEyU7U

[Ezekiel]

we have the atom bomb, lime jello, mayonnaise and leprechauns with lucky charms......

[albie]

There isn’t one millimeter that’s the least bit appetizing. Looks like a variety of brain matter.

[Think free or die]

My parents came from Europe in 1950. Mercifully, that spared our household most of these mid-century horrors. Nobody who learned to cook in Europe would have used this much food dye or poured Jello into a can of pineapple. We saw plenty of Jello molds at potlucks over the years though. Whoever was in charge of marketing Jello and KoolAid was very effective in the job.

The rise of processed food has a certain cringe factor to it in retrospect, but it had some advantages. My mom related to me that when they first came to America, there was very little produce available in stores in the winter. We're accustomed now to a full range of fresh produce from California, Florida and South America, but that didn't exist out of season for most people. She used to be able to get a few types of canned veggies, but that was about it until the technology for fresh-frozen veggies improved. That's also when they started seeing frozen OJ and strawberries. Seasonal produce was abundant for part of the year, but certainly not in the variety we have today.

[Sans-Culotte]

I have never been a fan of congealed salads/aspics. I can handle fruit cocktail in jello, but that’s it.

[Joe 6-pack]

Four years ago in March, my beloved Tervuren, Ranger, had a stroke paralyzing the right half of his body. The cause was not immediately known so working closely with my vet, I tried to nurse him for a for a few days before deciding to put him to sleep. He was hardly eating and I had to hold his head over his bowl so he would drink water. On St. Patrick's Day morning in 2017, I got up early and he and I shared two of his favorite foods: hotdogs and ice cream, before I drove him to the vet to do what had to be done.

As such, I committed to eating hot dogs and ice cream every St. Paddy's day for the rest of my life.

So as delicious as some of that vegetable jello looks, I'm just going to have to politely say, "No."