50’s Jell-O Salad is Actually a Shoggoth

September 22 2009, 5:37am

“It was a terrible, indescribable thing… a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light.” - H. P. Lovecraft Many thanks to Paul Komoda, ever the friend of Coilhouse, for pointing out the eerie similarities between this 1952 advertisement for vegetable-flavored salad Jell-O, spotted in a  SocImages post discussing “how tastes are shaped by history” (see also:  “The Social Construction of Prunes“),  and this 1936 cover of Astounding Stories for Lovecraft’s  “At the Mountains of Madness.” If you wish to further penetrate the Mysteries:

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Post tags: Cthulhu, Food, Madness, Surreal, Testing your faith, Ye Olde