Actual thought I had in the shower!
Gelatin was originally and still often is derived from meat by-products, so wouldn’t it make more sense as a meat dish?
I looked it up, and it turns out that accounts of aspic (a savory gelatin dish) predate the earliest record of gelatin desserts by more than half a millennium!
Maybe the mid-20th-century meat Jell-O trend makes more sense than I thought
Ahh, I was talking about extracting it yourself from hide and bones, the store-bought stuff is definitely refined enough that taste wouldn’t be an issue
Omg. Yeah. I would never attempt to extract it myself. It’s just bone broth at that point for me.