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Pet peeve of the day
Dec. 6th, 2004 09:17 amMemo to Jell-o: If it comes out of a box, it's not homemade.
I realize you're mixing it up in your house. But mixing something up in your kitchen that came out of a box doesn't make it homemade. Yet in your commercials, you say something to the effect that it's good to always have some Jell-o pudding on hand, because "it's just five minutes to homemade."
Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. If I mix sugar, flour, butter, vanilla, almond, eggs, and assorted other ingredients together, spoon it onto a cookie sheet and bake the resulting cookies, those cookies are homemade. If I scoop premade cookie dough out of a tube onto a cookie sheet and bake it, those cookies are NOT homemade. Believe it or not, there is a difference.
I can't explain why this gets on my nerves so much, but it does. Just the fact that I have to add milk to the pudding mix doesn't make it a recipe. And just because I can't eat it straight out of the box doesn't make it homemade. That's like saying if I heat up a frozen pizza in the oven, it's homemade. I call bullshit.
I realize you're mixing it up in your house. But mixing something up in your kitchen that came out of a box doesn't make it homemade. Yet in your commercials, you say something to the effect that it's good to always have some Jell-o pudding on hand, because "it's just five minutes to homemade."
Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. If I mix sugar, flour, butter, vanilla, almond, eggs, and assorted other ingredients together, spoon it onto a cookie sheet and bake the resulting cookies, those cookies are homemade. If I scoop premade cookie dough out of a tube onto a cookie sheet and bake it, those cookies are NOT homemade. Believe it or not, there is a difference.
I can't explain why this gets on my nerves so much, but it does. Just the fact that I have to add milk to the pudding mix doesn't make it a recipe. And just because I can't eat it straight out of the box doesn't make it homemade. That's like saying if I heat up a frozen pizza in the oven, it's homemade. I call bullshit.
