Saturday, August 13, 2011

15 Minute Exercise: Jell-o

My aunt teaches a writing course, and she told me the first assignment she gives to her students: write everything you know about Jell-o in 15 minutes or less. So, for practice, I decided to do it. Here's the result, unedited and uncut:

What I know about Jell-o is that it's not true gelatin. Gelatin uses bones from various animals, usually horses. Jell-o uses something different. I also know that my mom had Jell-o as one of her pregnancy cravings. When she was pregnant with my brother, she ate the stuff like crazy. My brother likes it too. There's a cake recipe that our family has, where you put strawberry Jell-o inside angel food cake. I don't really like Jell-o all that much. On principle I don't eat anything that reminds me of brains. Which is squishy things in general. I don't really like the way it wiggles. I'm afraid that it might become sentient. Reminds me of slimes from the Dragon Quest series. Except for the eyeballs. And tongue. Everybody eats Jell-o. A lot of people, I think. You can put so many things inside Jell-o. Nuts, marshmallows, strawberries... the list is endless. I can't think of too much else to say about Jell-o.

It's terrible, but I only had 15 minutes, so whatever. It's a start.

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