How wonderful to have a distraction during the pandemic! CHRISTMAS! For many, this will not be a wonderful Christmas, for far too many reasons. But, as in everything, we do the best we can with what we have. So, here are a few Christmas distractions for you. First, a laugh or two.
Since many/most of us are staying home for our Christmas meal, you may want some ideas for the menu. Here is a menu, dated December 25, 1944 for dinner at the U.S. Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois. H. G. Kruithoff mailed this postcard to Miss Opal Kruithoff in Sioux City, Iowa on December 26. He checked off the items he ate on the postcard. Notice his little checks in the first image below. On the back of the card, in the second image below, the message states: "Well Opal this what I had. I took every thing and I'm so ful that I'll bust if I eat any more. Some how the meal didn't taste has good has Moms. What did you have?" This is exactly as written.
Perhaps your meal will include JELLO. The Minneapolis StarTribune had a little snippet about Jello, copied here.
"The base ingredient of this well-known product has been part of dessert dishes as far back as the late Middle Ages, but it was a cough syrup maker in 1897 who made it into what we know today. Pearle Bixby Wait started mixing powdered gelatin with fruit flavors and sugar. The result was sold to the Genesee Pure Food Co. in 1899, and within a few years, advertisements in the Ladies Home Journal and the distribution of Jell-O cookbooks as a marketing tactic set the product on its way. The gelatinous dessert has an entire museum devoted to it in Leroy, New York, where it was created."
Following is one of the early booklets, dated 1930. Inside it notes that Jell-O won awards at 1) the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Mo in 1904, 2) the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, OR in 1905, 3) the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, WA in 1906, 4) the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition in Norfolk, VA in 1907, 5) the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, CA in 1915, 6) the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Diego, CA in 1915, and 7) the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia, PA in 1926. Impressive!
More recently, in 1973, "The New Joys of Jell-O" was published.
I hope you enjoyed this mish mash for your Christmas diversion.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL.
TAKE CARE AND WE'LL SEE YOU IN THE NEW YEAR!
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