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One apparently being broadly described as "Italian ice cream", while the other is a mucilaginous result--often used in glue--of boiling down animal joints and hooves. Does either use have even the most tenuous relationship to the commercial product known in the states as Jell-O?

Isn't Jell-O simply a brand name for a flavored gelatin?

Many people are in the dark about gelatin. If one thinks about it, it may nauseate. Layman's recipe for making gelatin: Boil the *@##*@# out of any part of a higher animal be it fish, fowl, cow, cat, pig, or etc. Strain out everything but the tiniest particles. You have gelatin. And you can't easily tell what part of the animal or what animal it once was. Aren't you sorry you asked?

Now consider the Muslim halal and Jewish kosher laws. Is gelatin "clean" by either of these standards? No. Or maybe yes.

Talk about feeling sorry, I made the horrendous mistake of thinking of aspic, a frequent gelatinous term in crossword puzzles. Wow, talk about a rabbit hole! Asp, spikenard, basilisk, etc. etc., all related in some way or another. I think I'll stick with Jell-O. At least there's always room for that, somewhere.