When I was little, my mom and aunt took us kids, drove from the ranch to the nearest city to see a friend and her husband who lived there-they only had a small apt, so we stayed the night in a real hotel-two adults and 5 kids in one room-with a real dining room-first place I ever saw a jellied/aspic salad was when we got in line at the buffet-the hotel rather grandly called it a smorgasbord-it was shrimp, tiny tomatoes and some other stuff suspended in a square of pale peach colored gelatin on a lettuce leaf on a plate. To country kids used to fresh food they can instantly ID, it looked totally alien and creepy-we did not try it...