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Hotdish Hoedown

Hotdish Hoedown

  • About the Hoedown
  • Year by Year
  • Guests
    • In Memorium
  • Jell-O Galleries
    • Jell-O Contest Retrospective
    • Jell-O Gallery 1991-98
    • Jell-O Gallery 2001-05
    • Jell-O Gallery 2006-09
    • Jell-O Gallery 2010-19
    • Jell-O Songs
    • Trophy-Making
  • Recipes
  • Beyond 53704
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2024 Advance

Recipe for Success: Hotdish and You

Contact hostess for details on date, time, location. Please note a Wisconsin State Journal reporter will be covering the party in the wake of the 53704 Frame by Frame Film Festival on November 4.

‘Important’ Details

  • Guests, please bring hotdish, salad, dessert or other tasty, homemade dishes to pass, labeled with info on contents (gluten, nuts, OK for vegans, etc.).
  • In the hallway: Hostess provides half barrel of Lake Louie Warped Speed Scotch Ale, assorted house wine, plus cash bar. In the party room: Hostess offers fizzy water, nonalcoholic beer, probably juice and/or soda.
  • Optional activities for children will be in own room with nonparental supervision.
  • Jell-O singing will occur if the crowd so demands.
  • Food pantry donations accepted.
  • To stay on guest list, people who cannot attend or realize they muddled the dates should let the hostess know.

Jell-O Contest

Participation optional. Creators use gelatin and perhaps other food and/or inedible objects in their entries. Hoedown guests select winners through secret balloting — and they are encouraged to vote early (but not often) in the evening to speed counting.

Contest categories for 2024

  • Most Fantastic Artificial In-Jell-i-gence Product
  • Best Tale Told by Humans: Politics, Movies, Books, Shows
  • Best Hope for the Future
  • Best Solution to Problem Highlighted in News
  • Best Pun

2024 Invitation & Links

Forgotten items: Reclaim before June 15

2024 Wisconsin State Journal article

Online invitation with Jell-O Contest categories

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