Like, sixty years ago

~~Probably something to do with the great depression and needing to make cheap foods interesting~~

Something to do with women having to make things look less lazy/not just serving ready made things, and like they put work into making food in the post ww1 period. Recipe books tended to have the crazier stuff trying to get you to use more of their other products

Salads are just cold foods chopped up and mixed together with some kind of dressing. I.e. fruit salad, caprese salad, egg/chicken/tuna salad, etc.

Using gelatin as the "dressing" is a regional thing. This would be called strawberry cumfart jello here, not strawberry cumfart salad.

I also think only very old people still eat this shit. Gelatin in general is much less popular among young people, who want their food to vaguely resemble food.

"Salad" doesn't mean healthy, it just means "item + goo." Sometimes it's veggies and dressing. Sometimes it's fruit and their own juices. Ham, tuna, egg or chicken salad is just those items plus mayo. Add relish, celery and onions if you're fancy. Sweet jello salads are jello chunks mixed with cool whip, fruit and nuts if you're fancy. In a savory jello salad the jello is the goo and random bits of what ever veg and/or meat was in the fridge are the item.

I mean, they're only calories, not much else. Why would you eat that as main dish?

Your Sunday potlussy

Now this makes me wonder what this would look like if this was made with jello like the thing in the post

Also searching for "meat baby " on Google is fun

because you were cowards?

You've clearly not been exposed to the wonders of yesteryears jello and aspic abominations

Maybe it was unintentional. You can't see what the topside of your jellymold will look like before it's inverted, so they could have tried for a floral pink effect and taking this picture shows they have a sense of humor about their failure.

I heard your Proctologist lost his thermometer and then said "some asshole has my pen"