From the Jell-O Museum, Leroy New York

What? A Jell-O museum? Yup. A Jell-O museum. We encountered this place on a trip we made to Toronto to attend a conference for Layden. At the time, we were stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. We decided it would be fun to explore the East coast so we decided to drive. Along the way, in up-state New York, we encountered a BIG sign welcoming us to Leroy, home of Jell-O, and inviting us to the Jell-O museum. We couldn’t pass that up. It was actually a very informative museum. I learned a lot about that ubiquitous, seemingly un-impressive dish often presented at church picnics and back-yard BB-Q’s. While Jell-O is a rather humble thing, it was also transformative in many ways for middle-class America, allowing any housewife the luxury of serving gelatine dishes, a privilege once reserved for the wealthy who could afford servants to do what was once a very labor intensive process. Here is a link if you want to know more: https://jellogallery.org/ When this ornament goes up on the tree, it reminds us not to underestimate what might seem ordinary or commonplace.