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Actual thought I had in the shower!

Gelatin was originally and still often is derived from meat by-products, so wouldn't it make more sense as a meat dish?

I looked it up, and it turns out that accounts of aspic (a savory gelatin dish) predate the earliest record of gelatin desserts by more than half a millennium!

Maybe the mid-20th-century meat Jell-O trend makes more sense than I thought

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Wait until you learn what head cheese is.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Terrine in general is fantastic as charcuterie. I'd be totally fine with head cheese. I get that the process is gross, but it tastes great. Kind of like pate.

The whole process of farm to table is gross if you think about it.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

The whole process of farm to table is gross if you think about it.

It is. But when you kill the animal, you can at least eat all of it.

head cheese

But that name is extremely disgusting.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It got the name by having the entire head of a pig in it.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago

The head part is not my issue. The combination grosses me out.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Yeah. Terrine is a better generalized word for it.

[–] CubitOom 2 points 5 hours ago