[Persevero]

“Lileks even managed to dig up a recipe - I almost want to say “THE” recipe - that my grandmother would inflict on us during the holidays. “

Do tell! What was it?

[niteowl77]

Jell-o with embedded bits of shredded cabbage and carrots. I hated it, dad hated it, mother merely tolerated it and my sister found it incomprehensible if not necessarily indigestible. I had talked about this bit of family dining history over the years - wondering who came up with it, etc - and then Mr. Lileks goes and digs up the original ad/recipe. Acid (reflux) flashback!

To be sure, the "Jell-o thing" was actually quite benign compared to the other stuff seen in "The Gallery of Regrettable Food," but since I had to suffer through it at least once a year from toddlerhood through high school, it loomed large. Most of the other foods he scared up for the gallery would have been even more repellent to me, and a great many of them would likely gag a goat.

(If the goat had any self-respect.)

Mr. niteowl77