My ex-FIL not only likes Jello salad but also prefers that regular Jello be of a soupy consistency. He also prefers canned peas to frozen because of their mushiness, not despite it.
S is a major foodie who loves very nice ethnic and trendy restaurants. But he loves my MIL’s jello salad recipe (has Dream Whip and pineapple in it) and we have to make it every year for him at Thanksgiving. I admit it is good.
Ok, the soupy comment reminds me of how my grandmother used to make what she called,“Ambrosia, Food for the Gods.” Whip (already gelled) Jello, mix in whipped cream (no Cool Whip when I was a kid,) and chill.
Just saw this. I think this Thanksgiving dinner should get you 50 points:
http://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/fast-food-thanksgiving-dinner?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=spoon-email
Whip cream? Surely you have Cool Whip with jello salads!
If you want a terrifically tacky jello recipes I recommend “Bunnies on the lawn”. I can’t link as all the pictures seem to be from blogs, but it involves green jello, canned pears, whipped cream (for the tail), almonds (for the ears) and raisins (for the eyes). I have eaten this concoction as part of our grad school eating group.
I went to Waffle House tonight!
I have been skimming all of these jello and Waffle House posts without having anything meaningful to add. I vaguely recall Jell-O with I believe, canned fruit cocktail suspended in it during the 70s, but my more recent Jell-O memories are post-college Jell-O shots. I never saw the appeal of those, but they had quite the presence in the late 80s.
I still have never seen a Waffle House but apparently they are known for remaining open for business through all types of inclement weather. FEMA even uses an informal Waffle House index to help determine the scale of a storm and its needed recovery effort.
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Just wanted to throw the question out there: What are the differences between IHOP and Waffle House?
I used to frequent the former when I was just out of college with work team colleagues after a long workday. Never been to a Waffle House.
Waffle house is a more limited menu, and basically a diner setup with a counter around the grill and a few booths. Oh, and always a jukebox. Go figure. The waitstaff yell out orders to the cook. It’s kind of impressive how well they can keep up on a busy night.
FEMA apparetly considers Waffle House operations as one of the indicators of how bad a natural disaster is:
https://www.marketplace.org/2015/03/04/business/when-disaster-strikes-fema-turns-waffle-house
“What are the differences between IHOP and Waffle House?”
Pancakes vs. waffles. (sorry couldn’t resist)
I always think of Waffle House as a southern thing. That’s where I’ve seen them.
Even though I got a score of 49, I’ve never been to a Waffle House I do like Old Cracker Barrel.
Later at night, Waffle House is where people might hang, waiting for that one late bus to show up or catching up on doings. All I’ve been to are small, no pretensions, not at all. A sort of "greasy spoon"with local flavor. Not a lot of elbow room.
Both have hash browns (know how hard it is to find hash browns in New England?)
I worked in a 24 hour breakfast place in VA, one college summer. The overnight shift. We got a certain traffic when the swing shift ended or the late night data guys needed a break.
Back in the day, Waffle Houses were always pretty smoky too–partly due to being so small. Are there places you can still smoke in restaurants? If there are, any Waffle Houses there are probably very smoky.
When I took the quiz I said I’d been to WH in the past year, although I think it’s been a bit longer. I’ve certainly been to them enough times to be familiar. I even went to a Waffle House on Christmas once–or maybe it was Christmas Eve. Good times.
- It would have been a lot higher a few decades ago, when I used to eat in chain restaurants all the time and go to and/or rent a great many movies!
I will never buy the assumption that living in a town with a population of 50,000 or less and driving a pickup truck makes you “mainstream,” whereas living in a major metropolitan area – and using public transportation because you don’t even own a car – puts you in a “bubble.” Talk about a biased stereotype. But I wouldn’t expect anything else from the likes of Charles Murray.
Well, again, it was aimed at a very specific demographic (namely, NPR listeners) that happens to be predominantly more urban. A similar quiz aimed at a rural audience would presumably have questions not about pickup trucks, but about mass transit.
Not NPR listeners - it is from PBS
I could not get past Q1! My 50 nearest neighbors? That would be quite the acreage to cover!! 
Murray defines the bubble like this:
But then goes on to say this:
Not sure he is criticizing those who presumably live in his bubble.
I wouldn’t mind if he had labeled the survey as urban/liberal bubble vs rural/small town/conservative bubble, or something like that. It’s his characterization of the latter as “mainstream” that I find objectionable.
That PBS, NPR, whoever, managed to forget all the the things they loathe Charles Murray for and run something of his is a tell. Probably that they found the slant of his questions soothing to their sensibilities.