Me too. Like when they advertise those jelly sweets that are pure sugar as being 100% fat free, or that ’1 serving’ of a breakfast cereal only contains 99 calories, then you see that 1 serving is the equivalent of some single atomic unit of measurement.
As an aside, what do you septics* call those jelly sweets, seeing as you call jam ‘jelly’? You know those chewy candies like, well, jelly beans. And why are they called ‘jelly’ beans when you can’t spread them on toast? One of life’s many mysteries…..
*Septics=Septic tanks = Yanks. Cockney rhyming slang, innit Mary Poppins?
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No, wait. There’s a distinction between jam and jelly: Jam is a runny, viscous semi-liquid which seems to have pits in it or some other sort of coarse grit, while jelly is a thoroughly processed substance entirely divorced from whatever fruit is pictured on the label. This is fine by me. As a city kid I like to believe that all food is created all pasteurized and wrapped in plastic, fresh from an antiseptic factory, without ever having spent time in the dirt, either rooting or rooted.
I can’t explain why jelly beans are called jelly beans and not something else. But I thought the Brits called these “jelly bellies.” Certainly that’s what Dr. Who called them when Tom Baker was in the role.
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Curmudgeon
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Ah. We have a range of jelly beans called ‘Jelly Belly’ which promise to be utterly authentic American jelly beans which probably means you’ve never heard of them.
Tom Baker loved Jelly babies which are something else altogether.
We have the 2 types of jam too, but they’re both called jam. Then of course there’s curds & marmalades……