[littl3chocobo]

unflavored gelatin is not always artificial, it usually is meat-based or at the very least animal based.

for sure though if potpot is looking at a 1911 recipe then they are 100% looking at an aspic-style "instant" jello(which would still be called a jello/jelly salad), the 15 minute instant jello that does not require boil, strain, settle and chill is still several years off at that point XD the jello in the ad is mid-century and my comment on that still stands true(and galla's variance is legit, it was a thing for a while to add mayo)

do know that the jello brand has been around since the victorian era and even though 1950s-1970s americana is where the stuff gained a lot of the contemporary notions of what is and is not acceptable aspic(for sure though some of it really does not qualify on a technical level)it is NOT the only time it was in vogue or even the time where it was most popular



if coda prefers the taste of instant jello topped with sweetened canned goods that is his prerogative but i have spoken to a /lot/ of people who were there serving and eating the stuff and for the most part it is agreed it's not very good at all XD of course i have also asked around and a lot of people from those decades have never tried anything other than instant flavored variants XD soooo that is a thing to take note of