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Jell-Oh NO!

In my digs on history of Jello-O… came across some interesting stuff..

Mary Bellis

Updated January 28, 2019

Jell-O: It’s now as American as apple pie. Once a twice-failed processed food made from a mash-up of animal parts, it managed to become a hit dessert and the go-to food for generations of sick children.

Who Invented Jell-O?

in 1845, New York industrialist Peter Cooper patented a method for the manufacture of gelatin, a tasteless, odorless gelling agent made of out animal by-products. Cooper’s product failed to catch on, but in 1897, Pearle Wait, a carpenter turned cough syrup manufacturer in LeRoy, a town in upstate New York was experimenting with gelatin and concocted a fruit-flavored dessert. His wife, May David

Cooper also operated a successful glue factory in Gowanda, New York that produced glue for decades.[9][10] A glue factory was originally started in association with the Gaensslen Tannery, there, in 1874, though the first construction of the glue factory's plant, originally owned by Richard Wilhelm and known as the Eastern Tanners Glue Company, began on May 5, 1904.[10] Gowanda, therefore, was known as America's glue capital.[10]

There was a mention of the success of the glue operation was its location being near the heart of slaughterhouses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cooper

Same guy started this…

++Children's Village (New York)++

++Purpose:++

Hundreds of homeless and runaway children were present on the streets of New York at the time, and many of them were arrested every year.[6] As part of its mission "to care for, train, and morally uplift a mixed group of the City's poor children," the New York Juvenile Asylum provided housing, education, and reform for those children, and eventually placed them in apprenticeships.[6][5] It provided a non-punitive alternative for children who had been arrested,[6] and taught disobedient or unoccupied children "self-discipline of body, mind, and heart."[5] In its earliest days it was not particularly effective, and became primarily a place to house disruptive children.[5]

The mission and purpose of the Children's Village has evolved from its origins in the 1800s, and it now exists to "work in partnership with families to help society's most vulnerable children so that they become educationally proficient, economically productive, and socially responsible members of their communities."[7]

++Services:++

As of 2015, the Children's Village serves over 10,000 children per year.[2] 425 students are accommodated in the residential school at Dobb's Ferry.[2] It also provides services to children in areas such as:

Immigration services[2]

Foster care[2]

Family preservation[2]

Short-term shelters and housing[2]

Community outreach programs[2]

A multi-generational community center[2]

Summer camps[10]

Affordable housing[2]

Crisis services[2]

Day students[2]

Daycare[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Village_(New_York)

Sold Jell-O ..

Cooper never commercialized his invention, but Pearl and May Wait of Leroy, New York, did. Sort of. Gizmodo says they started out running a cough syrup and laxative business, and they stumbled on a way to combine that business with their love of desserts. They started with bland, tasteless, gelatin, then added flavored fruit syrups.

It was a brilliant discovery, but they couldn't afford to market it themselves. In 1899, the Waits sold everything — including the formula and patent — to one of their neighbors for what's roughly $12,000 in today's money. It was the neighbor, Orator Frank Woodward, who made Jell-O into a sensation.

History says the non-name-brand versions of Jell-O — gelatin and aspic — have been around for centuries. The ancient Romans had a version made from fish (but they used it for glue), and starting in the Middle Ages, gelatin was made by boiling pigs' ears and feet.

https://www.mashed.com/138856/the-untold-truth-of-jell-o/?utm_campaign=clip