Talk:Jell-O Belt

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I can find no evidence for the existence of this term outside of Wikipedia and its mirrors. Please source this or remove it, since I don't see the use of this term at all.

You aren't Googling very hard, then. It's a real term, used and understood both by Mormons and by gentiles, exactly as described. ➥the Epopt 18:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I grew up in the supposed heart of the "Jell-O belt" and am hearing it first used here. The fact that you can find it on Google is just a testament to the intense copying of wikipedia. I suggest this article should be deleted as well. --Will (talk) 14:19, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

VFD results

This article has survived a VFD nomination with the result of No consensus. --Allen3 ^talk 12:28, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

have you seen the map?

Is it just me or is that red area on the map just a bit phalic? P.S. Utah Native --Xercessthegreat 21:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

So are half of the clouds in the sky. Grow up. XD - Gilgamesh 13:19, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Got to keep this term.

I personally have never heard this exact term before though I have lived in Utah for a few years and just outside "the belt" for most of my life. However, the instant I saw "Jello Belt", I knew exactly what it meant, and had to "click-it" to read it. This article should be saved if only to give us Mormons--and our friends who know us well--a smile and/or chuckle. And as for the content of the article? It was right on the money.

StevenWBenner 04:15, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Like Steven, I had never heard "Jello Belt" used to describe the "Mormon Corridor," "Zion Curtain," or "The Wasatch Front." However, long ago I was well aware of marketing data that indicated sales of Jello -- particularly and inexplicably lime jello -- were unusually robust in an area of the West I knew as the Mormon Corridor and one very small area in Minnesota, apparently similar in makeup to Garrison Keillor's Luthernan-besotted mythical hometown of Lake Woebegone. As to "Jello Belt:" it works, it fits and it's kinder and as maleable as its name implies.

RB Scott Boston, MA. but native of the Jello Belt—Preceding unsigned comment added by RB Scott (talk • contribs) 15:07, 17 April 2007

Sorry, but I feel compelled to throw a spanner. I am a Mormon living in Melbourne, Australia who knows many Mormons from many parts of Australia, New Zealand, the islands of the South Pacific and the USA. It appears to me that the popularity of "jello" among Mormons in the Jell-O Belt as described in the article is an isolated cultural phenomenon. In fact, I will have to take Wikipedia's word that it exists at all. With respect, it is not part of general Mormon culture. Mormon culture exists well beyond the Jell-O Belt. It would be good to make this distinction in the article. Your comments are welcome. Angus Robertson (talk) 15:02, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

This section of a serious article about the Mormon population distribution is just out of place, as much as some people may like a chuckle. Can some one explain to me why Jell-O and Mormons go together? Or why some article on black Americans shouldn't have a "Love dat watermelon" section? Catholics and fish for Lent in the past...OK. I see that. So what's the connection between Mormons and Jell-O? If there's none, this is something akin to a small town pointing out on highway signs that they have some obscure Guinness Book of Records entry that no one cares about. It's demeaning to the religion and its history, IMO. 121.163.188.1 (talk) 12:33, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Merge with Mormon Corridor

As noted in the article, "Jell-O Belt" is slang for the Mormon Corridor, which has its own wiki article (using the same map). So why not merge the two articles? Plazak (talk) 18:26, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Dont merge

The "Jello-Belt" discusses a marketing phenom... "Mormon Corridor" discusses a demographic geography. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.45.153.40 (talk) 00:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I disagree - this article says nothing about marketing. The opening sentence clearly identifies "Jello-Belt" as being a demographic/geographic term. "Jello-Belt" and "Mormon Corridor" are the same thing, they should have just one article, so merge. – jaksmata 20:15, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Merge. This article could be reduced to a single paragraph within the other article. Thmazing (talk) 03:11, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Merge. The terms are completely synonymous and do not require different pages. Trevor328 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 19:57, 3 January 2009 (UTC).

Merge. I think "Jello-Belt" could easily be merged into "Mormon Corridor", with the redirect retained for the reader. WBardwin (talk) 07:55, 15 January 2009 (UTC)