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The Vintage Jell-O Seafood Dish We Don't See People Eat Anymore By Joe Hoeffner Oct. 19, 2025 9:20 am EST

The trouble starts right there in the title, doesn't it? There are some things that don't go well with seafood (including, but by no means limited to, shellfish allergies, office microwaves, and trucks with South Dakota license plates), and Jell-O is unquestionably one of them. And yet, thanks to midcentury America's enduring fascination with putting random stuff in Jell-O molds and seeing what would happen, we got tuna Jell-O salad, one of the many vintage seafood dishes we're in no hurry to see on our tables again.

First, a little context. All those wild Jell-O salad recipes came about in the early 20th century because gelatin was very good at storing food an

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