This strikes me as not-quite-right. She's correct that the campus protest in particular has lost power, but social media isn't where we should be looking for an explanation. Simply put: universities used to take student disruption more seriously because they took *their students* more seriously.

Have you asked at a grocery store with a butcher shop? I think they might be able to special order you a batch of them once a month or something, so you could depend on it.

Well, most of the people at the party asked me if I'd used cottage cheese, so that seemed to be what they expected.

I think I am just more culturally comfortable with cream cheese.

This one actually has cream cheese and whipped cream in it, no cottage cheese, but I agree that cottage cheese seems to be more traditional.

It has pineapple *and* a real lime in it. I was morally unable to add the ham, macaroni, carrots, peas etc that some people do.

But if anyone ever makes you make a jello salad for a party, take it from me, invert it when you arrive at the party, and not before.

It got there safely! Was fine!

Sadly, I did not realize before inverting that I now i have no safe way to get the thing to the picnic for which it was requested. Baking a backup challah bread in case the jello salad collapses en route, which is way more inside my comfort zone.

I block people just because they seem likely to say something offensive in the future, even if I don't really know for sure. If I wouldn't speak to you at a party, or at a conference, then I don't need to hear from you here, either. I'm willing to guess based on bios, who they follow, and posts.