Americans call 'jam', 'jelly', so what is 'Jelly' called?

Question

i am not saying Britian or America are right or wrong, i'm just asking out of genral curioustiy.

Answer 1

American-English : Jam
English-English : Marmalade

American-English : Jelly
English-English : Jello

Jam / Marmalade : is usually made of fruits /Preserves.
Jelly / Jello : Has a 60% Gelatin which is found in Animal bones.
Which makes Jello, with other ingredients

Answer 2

Actually, we usually don't call jam 'jelly'. Jelly in America is the gelled *clear* fruit juice, just as is, say, redcurrant jelly in Britain, that's used to spread on bread or use in cooking. Jam is jam, same as it is in Britain, a spread made from crushed, cooked fruits. What Brits call 'jelly' we usually call Jell-O, which is the proprietary name for fruit-flavoured dessert gelatine...it's exactly like Rowantree except it comes powdered instead of in jelly cubes.

To be fair, some Americans do say jelly when they mean jam, but even in America they're actually wrong to do so. However, when an American refers to a 'peanut butter and jelly' sandwhich, they do generally mean jelly, that is grape jelly. It's exactly like redcurrant jelly, only it's made from the juice of Concord grapes (an American variety, the same kind used in Welch's Grape Juice, which can be found in Britain). Grape jelly is the classic spread that goes with peanut butter, the other being strawberry jam, which is when people would erroneously say jelly when they mean jam, probably because few people would normally say 'peanut butter and jam'...just habit.

Answer 3

Americans who know, know that jam and jelly are not the same thing. It's just that most Americans don't worry too much about the difference, and so they use the terms interchangeably.

Jello is not jelly, and I personally never heard an American use the word "Jello" to mean jelly.

Answer 4

Jelly:
1. A clear, bright mixture made from fruit juice, sugar and sometimes pectin. The texture is tender but will be firm enough to hold its shape when turned out of its container. Jelly is used as a bread spread and as a filling for some cakes and cookies.
2. In Britain, jelly is the term used for gelatin dessert
www.mychefcoat.com/terms-j.html

In America,
Jell-O
n : fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder
[syn: jello, Jell-O]

jello
n : fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder [syn: Jell-O]

;-D and humorously...

Source: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

jello n. [Usenet: by analogy with spam] A message that is both excessively cross-posted and too frequently posted, as opposed to spam (which is merely too frequently posted) or velveeta (which is merely excessively cross-posted). This term is widely recognized but not commonly used; most people refer to both kinds of abuse or their combination as spam.

Answer 5

Jam has the entire fruit in it and jelly is the juice of the fruit. Americans call jam , jam and jelly, jelly.

Answer 6

I thought jam and jelly were 2 different things: Jam is with chunks of fruit it it...jelly is the jam without the chunks of fruit!

Answer 7

so there's jelly which is just the jello part and no fruit or chunks in it. Then there is PRESERVES which is mostly chunks. Then there's Polaner - All Fruit which is really good stuff since it's all fruit! Are you confused as much as we Americans are? LOL no worries.

Answer 8

You're forgetting that most Americans don't know what the English call things. What you call "jelly" is Jell-O here.

Answer 9

i'm an american and jelly and jam are the same and it doesn't mean jello

Answer 10

i'm an american, and i know the difference, as i'm sure most other americans do...jam is preserved fruit. jelly is the juice of the fruit boiled down and jelled to preserve it.

**good one starglows!! cracked me up...thumbs up to you. ;o]