This one sounds really yummy! I can’t wait to try it:)

Anyway, your story about your grandmother reminds me of my grandfather. Once he found out that we liked something, boy he would make sure we had it! Even after you’re long burnt-out on it he’s still trying to get it for you.

I’m gonna fix this now for my kids. It’s the last week of summer for them and I figure they need a special treat!

C

I just made this for my daughter’s second birthday party picnic. I wonder if you are supposed to cool the pineapple/jello mixture before adding the buttermilk (or at least before adding the whipped topping.) Mine is not as fluffy as the picture. I’ll try whipping it up a bit in the morning. I’m a bit late to the post, but in case anyone looks it up like I did:

**You might want to try cooling before adding whipped topping.**

Loved the stories!

Jo Claire

Jan I am blessed, really really really blessed! I hope you get a chance to let me know if you get to try it!!

Anonymous Aww Kristi, thank you. I know just what you mean. This past weekend we had our big family thanksgiving (another one on the big day, too) and they pulled out a video of Thanksgiving about fifteen years ago. I saw my Grandaddy walk right up to the camera, smiling and joking and talking like he always did. Then my great grandmother, Lela, talked to the camera too, she was smiling and joking…I miss them terribly but wow, do we ever come from a great family!

Okay. Tangent and it might not have been too applicable but hey….it was on my mind. 

BillGent I think we all called it that! LOL

Mel I’ll keep em coming as long as folks keep reading! Thank you!

Rachel I know just what you mean! We have some fabulous desserts but I always head to the congealed salad and fruit salad (I am in LOVE with my Grandmother’s fruit salad). We had a few folks in my family who didn’t really like children too much either (step grandparents on my dad’s side, you don’t hear me say too much about them because, well I never knew them that well and they never had an awful lot to do with us – My paternal grandfather lives less than half an hour away and I haven’t seen him in about fifteen years!), and they always seemed so very strange in comparison to my grandparents who did! Trust me though, my Grandmama and Grandaddy and great grandmother more than made up the difference!

Don’t y’all just love how I give you WAAAY too much information! LOL

Amber Hey! Let me know if you do! Thanks!

Debbie LOL Now I AM laughing!!!!!
We just have to call it what Mama says….
Coz Mama is right!

Amiyrah OOOOOOOOOH I LOVE me some jello!!

Joan Oh I know exactly what you mean!! I love the old names, too! I have a grandmother Loraine and a step grandmother named Evelyn! I also had a great aunt Myrtle, then Anna Loyce, Great Aunt Lillian, and my grandmother is Lucille with her mother being a Lela Cordelia!
Joan, I hope you know how much it means to me to have you around here, I just love hearing from you!

Jessica Thank you so much!!! I still can’t believe y’all sit through all of my ramblings! Southern Plate readers are saints, I tell ya!

Iplay hmm I did add two packs of flavored gelatin…oh my now I’m confused. LOL

JoAnn I promise it doesn’t!!!! LOL!!! I know just what you mean, too!

Stephanie Man, I wish you lived in the south,too!!!!!! But I’d just feed you too much if you did…

Lindabelle I wonder also because all of my family’s congealed salads have them as well! LOL I bet it was that pineapple was so readily available and cheap. Even now some of those canned fruits are expensive! Most Southern food traditions go back to A. Cheap B. Easy to get!

Tamy Oh yes, they are so darn good, aren’t they? I always smile when I see your name……

Tomato Lady I was just a busy body who never sat still and had to be in on everything, really. Drove my mother crazy. She used to say “I hope when you grow up you have ten just like you!” Now she says “Well, you had two ten times more like you!”

Rosemary Mahoney