Wednesday's Wakkyfakts-April 8

Welcome to Wednesday’s WakkyFakts (unconventional
spelling deliberate), inspired at least in part by Storm Novello’s DIDYANOSE in Dandi Daley Mackall’s <<Blog On>> series.

A few years ago, while searching for vintage boxes to read online, I discovered some Jell-O flavors that are no longer being made.
Apple flavor.
I think I would have liked this, because I love apples, and when I like a certain fruit, I also like that flavor of Jell-O.
Celery flavor.
Really? That doesn’t sound like a dessert! Well, it wasn’t meant to be used as a dessert; it was meant for vegetable salads. My jury is out on whether or not I’d have liked this, probably not. If I want something that tastes like celery, I’ll eat the actual vegetable, usually filled with cream cheese.
As for Jell-O salads, I prefer [actually, I love] black cherry or raspberry Jell-O with fresh fruit, and it absolutely MUST include a banana.
Chocolate flavor.
I actually already knew about this one. I’d seen pictures of old advertisements.
Would I have liked it? I’m not sure, but somehow the taste of chocolate and the texture of Jell-O don’t seem to go together.
I’ve since discovered some more discontinued Jell-O flavors:
Bubble Gum
Coffee
Cola
Maple Syrup

And now for a flavor that never was:
Fish flavor.
All together now: “EWWWWWW!!!”
What made me even THINK of that?
Well, I once, just once, had caviar, and it may not be sophisticated to say this,but to me it was like eating fish-flavored Jell-O.

Mixed-Up Machine

Originally posted in 2005

I remember a vending machine that dispensed coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and chicken noodle soup. Cream and sugar were optional with the first two. However,what the customer ordered wasn't always what he/she got! Sometimes the machine delivered a cup of sugar, with no tea or coffee, and every now and then the beverage flowed out before the cup landed.

And then there were some interesting combinations:
Tea with noodles.
Chicken soup with cream and sugar
Coffee and chocolate
{Now, I love mocha, but this mixture bore no resemblance, so far as the taste went, to mocha!}
Coffee/tea/chocolate combo, AKA Mocha Tea
Chocolate noodle soup
And, on rare occasions, the machine would deliver the works: coffee, tea, chocolate, soup, cream, and sugar all in the same cup.

And yet, even knowing that I might not get what I wanted, I kept ordering from that machine. Why? Cockeyed optimism? No. The truth is, rather than being annoyed by the machine's mix-ups, {and I use the word mix-ups in every way possible} I found them very funny!