This thread caused me to recall the "Kids' Table" (probably a card table) that was set up adjacent to the dining room table at mass family gatherings.

All of us kids regarded being "exiled" in such a fashion as being demeaning but even major-league tantrums didn't stop the adults from imposing it on us.

One of the ploys my grandmother tried was to serve an "exclusive" dessert to us young'uns - a "Jello Rainbow Mountain".

With as much dignity as she could muster, she'd bring to our table a very large glass bowl containing 4 individual layers of Jello (from the bottom, cherry-orange-lemon-lime) put a plate on top, upend both and Squoipppppp!!! there'd be amound of Jello on the plate which she'd transform into a reasonable facsimile of a "mountain" by squirting whipped cream at the top as close as she could in order create the resemblance of a "peak" at the top.

The youngest kids clapped.

As far as I was concerned it was as a bribe insuffficent compensation for being bumped to what I'd later equate with being the equivalent of coach.