Jell-O is one of America's most famous desserts. In 1897, a carpenter named Pearle Wait was putting up a cough remedy and laxative tea in his home in Leroy. He experimented with gelatin and result became a fruit flavored dessert which his wife named Jell-O. He wanted to market his new invented product but didn’t have enough money or experience to do so. He sold his formula to one of the best known manufacturers of proprietary medicines, orator Frank Woodward in 1899 for the sum of $450.
The first trademark for Jell-o was a four year old girl named Elizabeth King who is the daughter of Franklin King, an artist connected with the Duchy Company - Jell-O's advertising agency. She made her first commercial debut in 1904. The actor and comedian Bill Cosby has been a spokesperson for Jell-O since the year 1974.
The desert comes with a lot of different fruit flavors. The first four Jell-O flavors were orange, lemon, strawberry, and raspberry. Today the desert is own by the company Kraft foods and there are over 30 different flavors to choose from. The different types of Jell-O products comes in gelatin, pudding and powder witch you can mix your own Jell-O dessert such as cakes and even cheesecake.
In March 17, 1993, technicians tested a bowl of lime Jell-O with an EEG machine at St. Jerome hospital in Batavia. The test, confirmed by Dr. Adrian Upton, stated that a bowl of wiggly Jell-O dessert has brain waves that are identical to a brain of adult men and women.
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