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red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean jam is just made from any fruit right? Or is jelly not jam and truly a specific thing?

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  • arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    jam is made from mashed fruit, jelly is made from fruit juice. basically the same process except the solids are strained out

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We just use jelly beans and peanuts around here, I dunno what you folks are on about.

      Who the fuck can afford jelly or grapes these days?

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      • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I still have some from the before times

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Grape jelly is made of grapes …

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  • Phantaloons@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    looks harder at label

    Grape-flavored Jelly

    nahhhh

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• Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • Jelly is fruit juice paste made with gelatin or pectin.

  • Jam is the exact same except with mashed bits of fruit.

  • Preserves have whole chunks

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    …if you’re in the us.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes in some other places what we refer to as jello (gelatine-based fruit-flavored wobble) you call jelly. But the jelly in a classic PBJ is assumed to be made from concord grape juice and sugar, jellified by pectin. Do you guys not distinguish between the pectin and gelatin kinds?

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        no, the distinction is the same, it’s just that from what i’ve seen of american grape jelly i would call it a jam.

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• cadekat@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or, more enjoyably, from raspberries.

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  • mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or, more enjoyably, from strawberries.

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    • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But black cherries

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  • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I knew about all kinds of jam/jelly. Just never once grapes.

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    • wunderkatze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve had jam made from red wine. Soo…

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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I too have had the experience of learning something I just never thought about from childhood on. And I will note that most jelly (and purple grape juice, and Manischewitz passover wine) is made from Concord grapes, which are not the same kind as are usually eaten raw from a grocery store. So no judgement, just curious: do you mean you never noticed the jar says “Concord Grape Jelly” or do you just not eat/encounter jelly?

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  • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not in the US. Grape jelly just isn’t popular here. You get jam/jelly from all kinds of fruit, strawberry, raspberry, cherry, orange, lemon, blueberry, apricot, peach, … I just never, ever saw grape jelly. I am sure that you can get it in well-stocked supermarkets, but as I rarely eat jelly, I never came across it.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Okay that makes total sense then. The fruits you listed I have mostly seen as jam or marmalade or preserves rather than jelly.

      As a person who doesn’t like grape seeds or squashy grapes I don’t think I’d like grape jam. I wonder if a winery with extra grape juice made the first grape jelly?

      Concord grapes don’t make great wine, but their growers are probably doing better than the fine wineries right now with the wine glut and people pinching pennies with cheap food like PBJs for the kids.

      I grew up in a strawberry town and make my own strawberry jam using my mom’s recipe. So even though the “iconic American PBJ” uses grape jelly we always had strawberry jam in ours.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The fruits you listed I have mostly seen as jam or marmalade or preserves rather than jelly.

        Wait, jelly isn’t the just American name for Jam/Preserve? You put wibbly wobbly stuff between slices of bread?

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• Phantaloons@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You mean it isn’t ham?!

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