there is always room for jello!!

oh advertising. how it sticks with us from day to day. how it warps our thoughts and fills our minds with disillusionment. today i pick advertising as my rant - hopefully the first of a series on commercialism, consumerism, and conciously deciding how to live instead of just going with society's tendencies.

so lets get on with it!


today while eating breakfast - a nice mixture of sauted zucinni, red bell pepper, mushrooms and garlic, with a cracked egg over top, i took the tomato from my plate and gave it to carl. he said, "please don't give me any more food - i don't have any more room in my belly." but, it was a homegrown tomato, and of course he ate it. we adore them.

in my mind, what i heard was, "there's always room for tomatoes," a play on the slogan used for the jello commercials in the 70s and 80s. there's always room for jello! it's a series of words i have heard thousands of times, both on the tv and from the mouths of friends and families. it was an advertising slogan that stuck, and then became a part of our day to day lives.

there's always room for jello! what does that mean? what are the real connotations behnd this series of words? let's investigate.

you've already eaten dinner. you should be full. but eat more - come on now, eat more - there's room in there!! force it in! there's room in your belly!!

some of you would say - jello can't be so filling, so who cares? why are you making a fuss?

i say - jello is a big bowl of sugar. sugar being better than HFCS of course, but still sugar. don't you remember being a kid and just wanting to eat it out of th envelope? it was like candy - fruit flavored sugar in a bag that mom said you could have!! alright!!

a bag of sugar, with flavoring. they say Fruit Flavoring! it's a lie. well, it is a half lie. it is fake fruit flavoring, artificial, i suppose, not fake, as in fake fruit would be........conterfiet fruit, something made to be a stand in for fruit, a totally false representation of real fruit, oh yes - all that does mean artificial!! maybe they did not lie afterall, but who noticies the non-fruit part? strawberry jello has got to be strawberries, right? i mean, if you get the pistacio kind it has real nuts in it, right? we have really had the wool pulled over our eyes.

fake fruit flavor. fake fruit color. one of the worst concoctions to ever be manufactured on this earth, and to think we all eat it every day!! food coloring!! the fakest of the fake. nasty chemical weirdness added to everything we eat. our bodies were not made to process this stuff - it is totally foreign to our systems. and it messes us up daily.

you think it is okay - the government lets it be in our food - it must be okay! bullshit. the food industry is a for profit industry, and lots of stuff is allowed that should not be. most of what is sold in a grocery store is bad for you. is foreign to your system. and food coloring is so at the top of the list!

your white cake frosting is not white - it is pale Yellow #5, the most commonly used food coloring. yellow #5 is made from COAL TAR. coal tar. coal tar is in your macaroni and cheese. it's in your cheese-it crackers. it's in all the food you thought was white, and all the food that isn't. it is the first and foremost food color used today, and it is in most of the stuff at the grocery store that comes in a package. every breakfast cereal. just about everything in a box.

coal tar. whoo hoo for the human race! let's live on coal tar!!

now, you can read about yellow #5 on many other websites, read about how it causes an amazing amount of food allergies and health problems. so i'll skip that for now - but i will tell you it's real name - tartrazine. look it up - find out what it is you put in your body everyday.


we come back to jello and it's slogan of There Is Always Room. for what? sugar, fake flavor and coal tar? or any of the other myriad food colors out there, made to mimic real fruit, made to TRICK our minds into thinking that it is real fruit - nutritious, ripe, healthy real fruit.


you see - we are an old species - we got this far through evolution of our bodies and minds, which includes a million years of collective knowledge. we did not get this far by eating poisonous foods, or things that would harm us. we have built in radar for what is ripe and healthy and if we were still living out in the woods as foragers (hunters and gatherers) we would know what was the right thing to eat. so food colors mimic that ripe factor, and they TRICK our minds into thinking that food is healthy. even if it is not. food coloring is a facade to hide the trash, a whitewash to make the old worn out wooden fence look pretty again. it is not for eating!! but we eat it everyday, in almost every food we take in.

unless you eat whole foods, natural foods, organic or unprocessed foods. but that is a discussion for a different day. right now we are talking about JELLO and it's advertising slogan.

THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR JELLO.  always is a word of absolutes. we are taught to use it it to mean forever, no matter what, from now till the end of time. always. you are gonna have room in your body to cram extra food and extra calories AND a ton of fake crap into your system no matter what for the rest of time!!

why are we so overweight? why do we have such ill health?

the science and psychology of what goes into our food and how it is marketed to us is a long, strange, winding road. you probably never thought, when eating that jello waldorf salad at christmas, or that banana strawberry mixture at easter, or the crazy brain shaped thing you served at halloween that you were being duped, lied to, reprogrammed, ect. it did not really taste right, but it looked pretty and it was sweet, and so you ate it. and your kids ate it. and you lived like that always.


our bodies were not made for this stuff. or actually - this stuff was not made for our bodies. it was manufactured (real food is grown, not manufactured) to fasely convince us that it tastes good and we like it. when really that is so far from th truth. horay for ground up horse hooves and sugar and food coloring!! hot damn can i have some more!!

there's always room for jello. would you like some now?