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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Behold the jiggly, swirling, prismatic crown of joy, presented to some lucky monarch on a ceremonial cake platter with laurel leaves and a hardy handshake!

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Monday, December 8, 2025

It's .. pink! I think even Barbie might avoid this one at all costs.

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Sunday, December 7, 2025

Looks like someone just got the surprise of their lives.

Lurking in the background, carefully averting his gaze, is Gomez Addams in disguise. Not how he is positioned for a hasty exit once chaos breaks loose, which should be any moment after the pink volcano erupts.

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Saturday, December 6, 2025

It's the weekend and time for a Swinging 70's party! The dish in the rear is an incubator for the berry-shaped eggs, which are ready to be gobbled up by tulips, which in turn, will project the eggs into the guests' desserts, where they will... Tune in tomorrow for part 2!

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Friday, December 5, 2025

This is what happens when Mom goes off to a Tupperware Party, leaving Dad to make the snacks for poker night. Those are real poker chips under there. Place your bets!

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Thursday, December 4, 2025

The Daleks attempted to disguise one of their own in order to exterminate everyone at the dinner party. Their plan horribly backfired when The Doctor arrived and produced his new invention, the Sonic Fork. However, his plan backfired when he realized he had to eat the entire thing, and it reminded him too much of sunset at Gallifrey. K-9 solved the problem with his laser. Stay tuned for the next episode in which The Doctor is tasked with finding the Scrub Brush of Rassillon in order to clean the tin dog.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it. Now, how do we get this thing off of Spock's back?

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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Let's go under the sea for this dish so special that it gives off its own waves!

The undersea life swims around the cluster of seaweed while tiny die-shaped crustaceans applaud with delight. Yes, even the injured aquatic creatures appear to be happy, for the seaweed is smothering the plastic diver guy that skewered them.

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Monday, December 1, 2025

We begin this year's festivities with two layers of festive green and one of sorta red. The bottom layer was scraped from the inside of the lawn mulcher, while the middle is shredded Easter grass. The top layer is confetti, glazed with uranium oxide. The garnish started as wilted holly - that is, until the cat found it.

This dish is sure to make a statement on any holiday table. 

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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Prepare yourselves for another 25 days of gelatinous joy!

Joy may be in the eye of the beholder, but know ye that when these horrors were published, they were indeed joyful. Hence the name of not one - but two! - "Joys of Jell-O" recipe books! Seriously, these dishes were of their time, meaning they were cool. After all, they were refrigerated! The mere act of serving these up meant that not only could the family afford a refrigerator, but they could afford one large enough to fit a fancy mold or two without crowding out the rest of the food for the dinner party. Of course, it also infers that the hostess has the time to keep mixing the partially set wobbly stuff so the fruit or meats become evenly distributed or to keep making and adding layers of different colors - or both! Yes, these were truly status symbols of their time.

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