>> "Jell-O" is basically hide glue with sugar.
>
> I wonder what might be an advantage for hot hide glue in adding
> sugar to it?

I think the first writer intended this as a joke.  "Jell-O" is a trade
name for the largest selling American gelatin dessert.  Like "Kleenex"
and "Xerox" it has become a common word.  It is not a trade name for
a glue.

It will come as a shock to some Americans that this food is known
as "jelly" in Britain.  I don't know the French, German, or Dutch
equivalents; perhaps those cultures have better taste than to eat it.
(Just joking!)  The sugar is, in this case, no more a structural
modifier than are the added citric acid and artificial color and
flavor.

Has anyone here actually used gelatin as an adhesive?

Wallace Venable