Posted by:
Brother Of Jerry
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Date: October 23, 2018 07:46PM
I think the best use of Jello I have seen is the annual passing out of the Jello shots during the intermission of Saturday's Voyeur, the annual fund raiser / biting satire on Utah produced by the Salt Lake Acting Company.
This is the perfect satire on so many levels. Saturday's Voyeur is a satirical take on the name of the popular Mormon musical Saturday's Warrior, about being born in these, the latter days, and blah blah blah.
The building SLAC has is a former LDS ward house in the Marmalade District on the hill west of the Utah State Capitol building. I believe the name "19th Ward" is cast into the concrete nameplate on the building. It has a Russian-style onion dome, reportedly a flourish added by the Church Architect back in the late 1800s when it was built. He was trying to impress some fair young maiden, to make her his plural wife, or so the story goes.
Utah, in an effort to jerk Gentiles around, wrote some incredibly convoluted liquor laws that basically contained verbiage that the only way liquor by the drink could be served was if (a) you bought or brought an entire bottle, or (b) if you wanted a single drink, that could only be served in a "private club", which was technically an extension of your private home.
I know, the private club thing makes no sense, but it was the law. As it turned out, said convoluted law did allow for a business to allow customers to bring their own liquor and consume it. No requirement to have a liquor license or be a private club or anything. The business just couldn't charge anything for the liquor.
SLAC used this loophole to allow, even encourage patrons to bring their own food and drink of choice to Saturday's Voyeur. A well lubricated crowd added to the enjoyment of tweaking the nose of the Utah establishment. BTW, I've been to about 25 productions of Saturday's Voyeur, and have never seen a customer removed for drinking too much and behaving badly.
Anyway, the Jello shots are the perfect nuanced cherry on top for Saturday's Voyeur. Not only do they tweak the Jello compulsion of the local culture, but there is no alcohol in them.
Yes, like everything else in Utah, the Jello shots are fake.
Perfect.