Jell-o, the disturbing facts....

For the record, I hated Jell-O prior to my fear of Mormons - but the irony of the lime jello phenomena and mormons is almost too much to walk away from.

A few years back, one of my managers (who was a mormon) told me about the Jell-o thing. I thought she was just kidding....she tended to be wacky...so I disregarded her whole stance on Mormons and the love of Jell-O

I thought I would share some Jell-O facts with you.....hopefully now, I can stop obsessing about Mormons and Jell-O. and baptism by proxy, and polygamy, and what really goes on in those temples, and Joseph Smith....aaaaahhhhhhh!!!

JELL-O (JELLO)

• Peter Cooper, inventor and founder of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, obtained the first American patent for the manufacture of gelatin in 1845. In 1895, cough syrup manufacturer Pearl B. Wait purchased the patent and developed a packaged gelatin dessert. Wait's wife, May David Wait named it 'Jell-O.'


• According to Kraft Foods, more than a million packages of Jell-O brand gelatin are purchased each day.


• In 1936 Jell-O came out with a cola flavored Jell-O. It was dropped the following year.


• The residents of Salt Lake City eat more lime flavored gelatin than any other city in the U.S.


• - The state of Utah loves Lime Green Jello so much it is their official state dessert.
  - Citizens of Utah eat more Lime Green Jello than anywhere else in North America


• The Jell-O Belt is a colloquial term in American English that refers to the parts of the western United States with large populations of Latter-day Saints. In academic literature, the area is more commonly called the "Mormon culture region" or the "Mormon Corridor."
  It generally refers to a roughly-defined area of land centered on Utah. The Jell-O Belt extends northward through western Wyoming and eastern Idaho to Yellowstone National Park. The belt reaches south through San Bernardino, California and Mesa, Arizona. In Arizona, the belt extends throughout all of the eastern part of the state, almost to the U.S.-Mexico border. Some of the larger cities with a significant Latter-day Saint population include Las Vegas, Nevada; Henderson, Nevada; Redlands, California; Riverside, California; Anaheim, California; and Temecula, California.
  The name "Jell-O Belt" references the affection that Mormons supposedly have for Jell-O (a gelatin-based food), particularly when served with shredded carrots, or blended with canned fruit and set in molds.[citation needed] Green (lime) Jell-O is the most stereotypically Mormon of Jell-O flavor-colors, probably because lime was once the best-selling flavor of Jell-O in Utah.[citation needed] Jell-O has been designated Utah's official state snack food


• Fruits that sink in Jell-O: seedless grapes and fruits in heavy syrup such as fruit cocktail, peaches, pears, etc.


• Fruits that float in Jell-O: fresh fruit such as bananas, citrus sections, sliced peaches, apples and fruit in light syrup.


• The original Jell-O flavors were orange, lemon, strawberry and raspberry.


• As immigrants passed through Ellis Island, they were often served a bowl of Jell-O as a "Welcome to America" treat.


• When hooked up to an electroencephalograph machine--an instrument that records the electrical activity of the brain--Jell-O demonstrates movement virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man or woman.


• According to the Gelatin Manufacturers Institute of America (GMIA), pork skin, cattle bones, and cattle hide are the predominant raw materials used to make gelatin.


• Jell-O can also be used to make finger paint, dye your hair, clean the dishwasher, scrub the shower, and deodorize cat litter.