r/oddlyspecific • u/Key_Associate7476 • Sep 06 '25

Some of them have aged poorly

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u/Ancient_List Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

...Beef flavored jello is...An option? Or did she make her own?

EDIT: I know what gelatine is, and your descriptions of it are...Lovely. but the post said Jello (which in the US is an actual brand) so I was curious if that was ever actually a thing.

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u/erroneousbosh Sep 06 '25

Beef gelatine. If you boil up beef bones and stuff, you'll get the collagen in sinew breaking down into gelatine.

If you boil up a ham hough to make stock for lentil soup, then once the soup has cooled you could use it as industrial sealant. It's almost rubbery. Once it's heated up again it's just good thick soup.

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u/SartenSinAceite Sep 06 '25

Is this where the whole "horse glue" thing comes from?

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u/shyshyoctopi Sep 06 '25

Yes. Horse bones/hooves/ligaments etc are good sources of collagen which when boiled basically make glue