{"id":28,"date":"2007-04-13T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/get-a-blue-clue\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T05:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T05:55:00","slug":"get-a-blue-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/get-a-blue-clue\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a Blue Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KoolI just had to blog when I heard these words come out of my mouth awhile ago: “Damn it, I left my frozen blue Jello in the microwave.”<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

See, they’re really Kool-Aid&#153 brand “gel snacks,” and as Emily has pointed out, they say right on the label, clear as day, “DO NOT FREEZE.”<\/p>\n

But, scofflaw that I am, I keep them in the freezer, and I nuke them for 10 &#151 11 seconds (12 would just ruin it), and I eat them with great relish.
(Note: Great relish is nothing whatsoever like pickle relish.)<\/b><\/p>\n

I have this picture of the Kool-Aid guy because it’s impossible to find a picture of these blue jello snacks on the internet, so I will perforce have to take it upon myself to snap one at a later date.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I did come to know that most “blue kool-aid” images refer to the art of dying wool yarn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is also an adult drink made with blue Kool-Aid called the “Steve”, after Steve, the orginal host of Blues Clues&#153. The site<\/a> has this ad<\/a>, and this recipe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just had to blog when I heard these words come out of my mouth awhile ago: “Damn it, I left my frozen blue Jello in the microwave.” See, they’re really Kool-Aid&#153 brand “gel snacks,” and as Emily has pointed out, they say right on the label, clear as day, “DO NOT FREEZE.” But, scofflaw … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Get a Blue Clue”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,18,13,14,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue","category-cooking","category-jello","category-koolaid","category-recipes","category-snacks","category-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}