On 23/04/2010 5:42 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>> My wife likes peanut butter and jam but I prefer good old fashioned
>> stir fried jellyfish.
>
> I like them both. But they just don't go together.
>

No they don’t :-)

> FWIW, Americans have both jelly *and* jam. Jam is jelly with bits of
> fruit in it. Sort of like the difference between chunky and smooth
> peanut butter. So yeah, "jelly" technically *is* "Jell-O", which here is
> a brand of gelatin. Jelly is just jell-o with a slightly different
> consistency and flavoring.
>

Thanks and to confuse things further (for the English, Brits), in my 
home town of Glasgow we called cheep jam (with very few bits of fruit) 
jeely. As in a jeely piece or a jam sandwich. Made famous in the jeely 
Piece song.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A7SAPmcwXA

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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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