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There's always room for it. Characteristic of the period in which it was introduced, the suggestion is one of abundance and neighborly generosity in Eisenhower-era America. One can also see Jell-O as indicitave of alienation between consumer and the means of production; it is, after all, rendered horse protein. One only must look to the Teamster's official emblem to note the symbolism of the repurposed horse.
By taking the shape of any mold, Jell-O negates any sense of Platonic form, and is therefore Aristotelian. One wonders if St. Augustine, in his continuing quest to synthesize the teachings of the classical world with his faith, might add fruit slices, thus reinserting life, and by extension the concept of eternal life, into the otherwise featureless gelatin. In this formulation, the Jell-O represents the divine and formless, the slices represent the divine-made-human.
