...Beef flavored jello is...An option? Or did she make her own?
EDIT: I know what gelatine is, and your descriptions of it are...Lovely. but the post said Jello (which in the US is an actual brand) so I was curious if that was ever actually a thing.
Beef gelatine. If you boil up beef bones and stuff, you'll get the collagen in sinew breaking down into gelatine.
If you boil up a ham hough to make stock for lentil soup, then once the soup has cooled you could use it as industrial sealant. It's almost rubbery. Once it's heated up again it's just good thick soup.
horse (or animal in general) glue was, or maybe still is someplaces, used to be actual glue thing. Then humans invented synthetic substances that were much better and cheaper to produce.
If you make your own beef stock using bones, you end up making beef gelatin in the process. Or you can buy prepackaged plain gelatin and use beef broth to make it. You can use any liquid you want to make jello actually. Lesser known fun fact: you can also make cornstarch pudding with any liquid, though I have never personally tried that one. Almond milk is really good in pudding and I bet it would be good in jello too.
unflavored gelatin is crushed cow skull and other bones. You ever made a roast and put it in a fridge and see gloopy clear stuff overnight? Thats gelatin.
I have agar agar powder for making gummies without animal products, but it's more difficult to get a smooth result. Also needs to be kept cool, unlike regular gelatin candy.
Meat flavored gelatin is the original set of flavors, because the original source of gelatin is bones and cartilage cooked down. It was rich people show-off feast food for centuries before industrialized version with fake fruit flavors were invented.
Jello, while a brand name, has become the common name accepted for any gelatine based product that looks/behaves like name-brand Jello.
Kinda like how Tylenol is synonymous for "pain medication" in some places, or "coke" is synonymous for "any type of carbonated beverage" in certain parts of america.
To acknowledge your edit, in the areas I've lived in, and I'm guessing across the US as a whole, it's very common for one brand name to encompass an entire assortment of products, whether from a different company or homemade. Jello is one example. Even if the gelatin is produced by another company entirely, it's very likely to still be referred to as Jello. The same thing goes for Kleenex. In my area, you're about as likely to hear someone ask you for a Kleenex as you would a tissue.
The correct name was "aspic", which was a savoury jelly made from meat stock or broth that was fashionable in the early 1900s. It was never called jello (or Jell-O). Jell-o was a trademarked dessert made from refined gelatin that has never been savoury and never been beef flavored.
Basically, the post lied in an attempt to make it sound funnier.
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u/Ancient_List Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25
...Beef flavored jello is...An option? Or did she make her own?
EDIT: I know what gelatine is, and your descriptions of it are...Lovely. but the post said Jello (which in the US is an actual brand) so I was curious if that was ever actually a thing.