Break the Mold: A New Look at Jell-O Salad - No. 114

Love or hate them, tomato aspic, bing cherry mold, and other refrigerated classics remind us of perfection and salad days gone by

At top, Glorified Tomato Aspic, The 1905 Perfection Salad, middle, and Eugenia’s Bing Cherry Jell-O Salad, at bottom.

As I boarded my Southwest flight home to Nashville recently, women in line behind me boasted about the Jell-O shots they’d just inhaled at the bar. I smiled and couldn’t remember a Jell-O shot.

But Jell-O and I go way back.

And I’m not talk…