# what's your favorite jam/jelly/preserves/fruit spread? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 11, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971 "2002-04-11T03:59:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![king\_of\_spain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7cd45c/32.png) [@king\_of\_spain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/king_of_spain)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/1 "2002-04-11T03:59:26Z")
Me, I’ve become a serious apple jelly partisan lately. My diet has consisted to an alarming degree of bagels with apple jelly in the last couple days. I’ve also enjoyed cherry and blackberry All-Fruit, and classic strawberry jam does have its appeal. What’s that you say? Orange marmalade? Get thee behind me! I don’t know how you Brits stand the stuff. So what’s your choice? Is this even in the running for “most mundane & pointless IMHO poll ever?” The sad thing is, around here, I really doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/2 "2002-04-11T05:30:14Z")
Nothing can top my grandpa’s marmalade! He makes tons of the stuff. Behind that I’d have to say home made apricot jam. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/3 "2002-04-11T05:35:29Z")
My personal favorite is lemon curd. Yum. I love to make jams and fruit butters in the summertime, and I make a very good strawberry-rhubarb jam, blackberry jam, and apricot butter. I hold onto them and give them as Christmas gifts. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/4 "2002-04-11T06:33:53Z")
Anything home-made is usually wonderful. Eg my grandmother’s plum and rosepetal jam. When buying jams I always go for the most ultra-expensive I can find, with only natural stuff in and maximum fruit, so it tastes more like home made. I particularly like cherry (“cerise griotte” in the Confiture Bonne Maman range). Bonne Maman abricot/apricot is also very good, and framboise/raspberry. I like the jam to have a bit of tartness. My mother told me that in WW2 when food rations were tight they used to make fake jam for the soldiers with colouring and sugar, and they would put in woodchips to imitate raspberry pips. ---
**Author:** ![greenlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@greenlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greenlady)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/5 "2002-04-11T12:56:30Z")
Feeling a bit jeolous of those with grandparents who make it homemade…can’t say I’ve ever tasted any in that category. My current fav is Smucker’s cherry preserves. Whole cherries in there. Yes. Lemon curd always sounded kinda ewwwww to me, but I’ve never tasted it, so I can’t make any judgments 'til Ive actually had it. ---
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/6 "2002-04-11T14:09:23Z")
My favorite commercial jelly is Welch’s grape jelly, but I prefer homemade anything. My late grandmother made the best apple jelly I ever had. In fact, everything she made was delicious. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/7 "2002-04-11T14:43:53Z")
Beach Plum jelly No, not plum. Beach plum. They are an obscure little fruit that grows near the ocean or saltwater bays, mostly in places like Cape Cod and Long Island. Delicious. If God made jelly, it would taste like beach plum. My grandmother and later my mother made jelly from it (they’re too tart for anything else). Now I’ve found some commercial Beach Plum Jelly in my local supermarket and I’m in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/8 "2002-04-11T15:00:27Z")
1. Grandma’s homemade orange marmalade. 2. She also made this incredible strawberry rhubarb sauce that she’d serve warm over vanilla ice cream. The mouth waters just thinking about it. 3. Hi Opal! 4. Honey, of course. 😉 Honey ---
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/9 "2002-04-11T15:17:44Z")
Oh, this takes me back to my childhood. My grandmother’s fig preserves, they’re heavenly and I don’t care if God hates figs or not! ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/10 "2002-04-11T15:19:29Z")
I tend to agree with the consensus of homemade over anything store bought. But…Bonne Maman Cherry is THE exception. I second **istara** ; Bonne Maman Cherry Preserves is very good. This tastes so close to my grandmom’s cherry jam that I may not even be able to tell the difference. I’ll have to try them side-by-side. Apricot sounds like the flavor to try next. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/11 "2002-04-11T15:41:37Z")
Oh, greenlady, you should give Wilkin & Sons Lemon Curd a whirl! I agree that lemon curd sounds yucky, but it tastes like a lemon bar sans the crust. It’s delightful! ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/12 "2002-04-11T16:16:19Z")
Bonne Maman strawberry and peach preserves (that’s two separate flavors, not a mixture) on warm buttered toast. I could eat it all day long. Also, lemon curd and orange curd - either on scones with jam and cream or straight out of the jar is good too. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/13 "2002-04-11T16:45:37Z")
For sandwiches, seedless blackberry jam. For most any other purpose, strawberry preserves. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/14 "2002-04-11T16:59:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > **For sandwiches, seedless blackberry jam.** You’re a good man, **Shibb** , excellent taste. I’m also keen on boysenberries and red raspberries. And I’ve never had homemade, so all I have to go off of is store bought. I’m sure fresh is much better, but so be it. I relish in my store-bough jelly. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-jam-jelly-preserves-fruit-spread/102971/15 "2002-04-11T23:23:16Z")
I’ve always liked guava jam. My mom used to make the best, fresh off the trees in our back yard. The house would smell sooooo good, and the jam oh god! Except for the time she didn’t have anything to strain the seeds out, ouch!