It’s about time we had another jello/jam/jelly/conserve thread. :eek:
huh?
If you mean heart? - I am vaguely aware that it can be bought. But it’s hardly routine, I’d imagine very rich and/or eccentric people eat heart.
Nah, I’m just countering one ignorant prejudice with one of my own. 
So they separate the red corpuscles and the white corpuscles? Cool. Wait . . . white corpuscles . . . that’s essentially PUS.
Pus pudding . . . has a certain ring to it . . .
Lobsang, I understand the jelly–jello thing. I read romances in which English women are always hungry after flights because all they had to eat on the plane were “hard biscuits”. Hard biscuits? What kind of airline serves passengers stale bread? I was confused.
I was watching an English T.V. show one day and somebody said “Pass me the biscuits” and he was handed a plate of cookies. OH!
P.S.–
Hey! What kinda snubblebear are you?
I take it you’ve never been across the pond? My circle of friends include, but not limited to a Hispanic from L.A. who speaks spanish/english. A Philipino…aww heck the list goes on & on…
<<----TM shuffles off to make a smoked salmon spread sandwich mmmm…
In Britain we have cookies and biscuits. cookies have chocolate chips in them and are nearly always the same crumbly material. but biscuits come in loads of different forms
hob-knobs, chocolate hob-knobs, crunch-creams, rich-tea, nice, bourbons, custard-creams. to name but a very small fraction.
IN UK superstores there are whole aisles devoted to biscuits.
We have biscuits here too, but they ain’t cookies. Cookies with chocolate chips in them are called chocolate chip cookies. I think what we call biscuits are close to scones.
This seems like the perfect thread in which this Missouri-born Whose Line Is It Anyway? fan can ask a question which has been bugging me for just ages.
What the hell is a twiglet?
Not everybody lives out the stereotypes in your head Lobsang.
When (if) you figure that out, you’ll be a better person.
Ciao
“Grits” isn’t nearly as bad as the name implies. It’s just ground hominy (a type of big-kerneled corn dried on the cob) boiled and served as a gritty mush. They use they same kind of hominy to make corn tortillas. The word apparently came from Old English “grytt” for “bran”, or “greot” for “something ground”.
And yes, our jelly is your jam, more or less. You thought we eat peanut butter and gelatin? Ick!
Hehe peanut butter and Jello sandwhiches. 
I’ve been told that American peanut butter is different from UK peanut butter. Is this true? I have a friend in the UK who swears that American peanut butter is absolutely terrific and very different from the UK varieties.
I was going to post that I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for breakfast this morning, but now I see that you would understand that as what I would call peanut butter and Jello, and I can understand why you would be disgusted. Also, looking at the jar, I see that it is labeled “jam”. We Americans tend to use “jelly” to mean any of ths sugary fruit-based spreads referred to in this thread.
I’m not sure if there’s any excuse for the lunch of pasta with sauce made out of powdered cheese, though.
The only product I’m aware of named “Ocean Breeze” was some sort of facial wash my older sisters used to use back in the 80s. And they never drank it.
**pravnik wrote:
“Grits” isn’t nearly as bad as the name implies. It’s just ground hominy (a type of big-kerneled corn dried on the cob) boiled and served as a gritty mush. They use they same kind of hominy to make corn tortillas. The word apparently came from Old English “grytt” for “bran”, or “greot” for “something ground”.**
This pretty much describes grits. Tho it’s not “gritty” unless you don’t cook it long enough. Think of it as a type of corn porridge, I guess. It’s pretty plain of its own. I like adding cheese to mine, and salt. Other folks like to add something like butter or other flavorings. Some folks even add sugar and cream, just like oatmeal. You can also eat it with “red eye” gravy (gravy made from pork fat/drippings).
Yellow Coke? Are you pehaps wondering about Lemon Coke? it is Coke with some lemon flavoring. It seems to be one of those things you love or you hate. I have tried the Pepsi Twist, and did not care for it.
Pepsi Blue is supposed to be berry flavored pepsi. My sisters like it, (16), and i find it has a sopy flavor, whil managing to be too sweet and somehow not quite berry flavored. Another sister, the BIL and I, all think it sucks a dead rat.
Vanilla coke is alright, but I think it could use a little more sweetener.
Pot kettle black lobsterback.
American peanut butter generally contains sugar…at least thats what I’ve heard. Over here most PB is sugar-free by default. Dam healthy nanny state! I have been misfortunate (is that a word?) to buy a jar of sugar-free, salt-free Peanut Butter. Ug. Tasted exactly like cardboard. I sprinkled sugar and salt in it, but that didn’t improve it at all.
I read ‘My Year of Meat’ a couple of years ago. I went vegetarian until I learnt that NZ doesn’t import meat. phew
I’ve always wondered - what, exactly, is a “wine cooler”?
Same stuff they put in American hotdogs; youdontwannaknow-meat.