My mom always used to give my sister and me hot Jell-o when we were kids, and I rarely think of it nowadays but on the few occasions I've made myself a cup of piping hot wild cherry Jell-o, it has been the greatest comfort.

Does drinking hot Jell-o sound crazy or gross to you, or have you done it? Most people I have mentioned it to are absolutely appalled.

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January 29, 2022 10:27 PM

We just called it Jell-O. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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January 25, 2022 11:36 PM

Are you sure you didn't just grow up with a broken refrigerator?

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January 25, 2022 11:37 PM

[quote]My mom always used to give my sister and me hot Jell-o when we were kids,

How FUCKIN' LAZY was your momma, that she couldn't even finish cooking Jell-O

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January 25, 2022 11:47 PM

R5 I didn't really like it after it had set. The texture seemed gloopy and slippery and strange. I think she grew up drinking it, which seems like a thing that people would have done in the 50s now that I think about it.

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January 25, 2022 11:53 PM

Hot horse hoof tea! Yummo!

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January 25, 2022 11:54 PM

I used to do that!!! I loved drinking hot Jell-O as a kid. Yes, I'm woefully obese now.

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January 25, 2022 11:57 PM

r6

You are delusional. You are why America lost its way

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January 25, 2022 11:58 PM

We had that during snow camp in the Boy Scouts. It was tasty. Hot juice and Kool Aid works, too.

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January 25, 2022 11:59 PM

It's something to sneak, not to be served.

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January 26, 2022 12:03 AM

r10

We had that in the 70s when we went camping in Guyana. I was in the outhouse whilst they were serving it. You can't imagine my surprise when I returned to camp

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January 26, 2022 12:09 AM

I could see a few sips but God not a whole cup of it.

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January 26, 2022 1:06 AM

When I was sick to my stomach my Nana would give me a glass of room temperature, flat coca cola. Would settle my stomach every time. I never drank jello mix though.

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January 26, 2022 1:11 AM

R14 My mom did that, too. :)

It really did help when I had bad stomach pain. I tried it once as an adult and it had the same effect.

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January 26, 2022 1:14 AM

In high school, a female body builder told me she drank warm unflavored gelatin to strengthen her nails.

How is your cuticle care regimen?

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January 26, 2022 1:14 AM

are you German r15? I have never met anyone else who's heard of it and wondered if it was a German thing? I still do it as an adult. An English muffin and warm flat coca cola. not pepsi, has to be coca cola.

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January 26, 2022 1:16 AM

R18 Kind of? My mom is from the DC area. Her parents were of Irish descent from Pennsylvania and of English anf German descent from the mountains of Virginia. The tradition may have come from her father. He had all the home remedies.

My dad is from NC, English and Pennsylvania Dutch (German) and Alsatian background. His family drank Coca-Cola like it was water, but I'm pretty sure the flat-Coke-as-medicine thing was my mom's and not my dad's.

But Coke was originally developed as a medicinal syrup, so I feel like the use of it to treat stomach ailments probably traces all the way back to its origin. Cola syrup can still be bought for medicinal use.

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January 26, 2022 1:32 AM

I used to work with a girl with an eating disorder. She would make sugar free jello, and drink it at room temperature at work. She said that she also kept cups of it around her house so that it was available at all times. The hottest guy who worked in the building next to us asked her out to lunch, and she declined, saying “you know I don’t eat”. Fucking tragic.

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January 26, 2022 2:22 AM

[quote] Hot horse hoof tea! Yummo!

[bold]NOT FUNNY.[/bold}

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January 26, 2022 2:24 AM

I grew up with the flat Coca-Cola remedy for an upset stomach, but I was only introduced to hot Jello a few years ago by an elderly neighbor, who knew that I was having digestive problems. It's just a kind of hot tea with calories and collagen, to give your stomach something when it's very touchy. It's a nice change from bullion cubes.

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January 26, 2022 2:42 AM

I'm asking. What the unholy hell is potato candy? Something she made in the Depression?

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January 26, 2022 2:54 AM

I’ve had nausea on & off since last night. I made ginger tea and it helped, but I have a box of Jell-O in the cabinet. Op, can the Jell-O be sugar-free?

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January 26, 2022 7:10 AM

I’ve always drank sprite for an upset stomach. Never tried hot jello.

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January 26, 2022 7:15 AM

Growing up, we drank ginger ale for an upset stomach. Also salt-free Premium crackers.

I also remember my mom sending my brother to the candy store to get a bottle of Coca-Cola syrup. Not sure if the people who ran the candy store were supposed to sell just the syrup to customers, but they did. They'd sell the same syrup used in the Coca-Cola fountain. They sold small glass bottles of the syrup.

Chicken soup used to work, a bit, for my migraines.

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January 26, 2022 7:31 AM

Mashed potatoes are an ingredients in certain candies and also in some doughnuts, R25.

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January 26, 2022 7:31 AM

The potato candy in my family is from the Irish side who came from Pennsylvania, but it turns out that they learned the recipe from the Pennsylvania Dutch. It may have been a Depression-era invention given my grandmother's age. Basically, mashed potatoes are mixed with confectioner's sugar into a dough and rolled out, peanut butter is spread on top, and then the dough is rolled up into a log and sliced into pinwheels. My grandmother always covered it in dark chocolate, and she also shaped the dough into eggs at Easter time.

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January 26, 2022 7:41 AM

Doesn't sound strange at all really OP. I have a slight sore throat at the moment (sucking a Ricola drop) and hot orange Jello with a splash of Cointreau or Grand Marnier sounds like a capital idea about now.

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January 26, 2022 8:38 AM

My mother gave me coke syrup when I had an upset stomach as a kid. It came in a medicine bottle.

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January 29, 2022 10:17 PM

No jello is divulging in any form

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January 29, 2022 10:27 PM