On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 3:14:05 AM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 22:05:12 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <dsi1yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> >On Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 1:27:09 PM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >> Tough times made for odd meals
> >> http://www.countryliving.com/food-dr...n-era-recipes/
> >>
> >> "In the 1930s, gelatin was considered a modern, cutting edge food,"
> >> writes Rudie Obias at Mental Floss. Back then, people apparently enjoyed
> >> a food called Corned Beef Luncheon Salad, a mix of canned corned beef,
> >> plain gelatin, canned peas, vinegar, lemon juice, and, sometimes, if you
> >> were lucky, cabbage.
> >
> >There's not much point in judging the way people ate who are far removed from our place and time. People in the future will think it abhorrent that we killed animals so that we could partake of their flesh.
>
>
> I think gelatin has been around since the first human boiled a joint
> of Mammoth.

Gelatin has always been around. It took a lot of time and effort to prepare aspic dishes and it was probably considered sophisticated, upper-class, and exotic. Actually, it still is today.