What’s your most controversial opinion?

[crazychemgirl]

Marmalade is so good occasionally… like a yummy piece of toast with orange marmalade or peach

 

[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

Isn’t jam and jelly the same thing?

Sacrilege!

 

[crazychemgirl]

Clearly I’ve touched a nerve here

 

[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

Clearly I’ve touched a nerve here

Have you ever made either?

 

[crazychemgirl]

Have you ever made either?

Why make it when you can buy it at the store?

In my fridge currently … grape jelly and raspberry jam … I put both on all the same things.

 

[Xerxes82]

It's peanut butter and jelly.
Not peanut butter and jam.

Could have avoided all this drama, because the correct answer is peanut butter and honey in any event.

 

[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

Why make it when you can buy it at the store?

In my fridge currently … grape jelly and raspberry jam … I put both on all the same things.

I have made both and jam is way more labor intensive. Mine was so much better than store bought. Just my opinion. lol

 

[crazychemgirl]

I have made both and jam is way more labor intensive. Mine was so much better than store bought. Just my opinion. lol

Oh I don’t doubt homemade is better …, cuz that’s almost always the case…

I’m just saying I have no distinction of the two in my house.

 

[Dirt_in_the_Ground]

I have made both and jam is way more labor intensive. Mine was so much better than store bought. Just my opinion. lol

When I was a child, I'd fill grocery bags with pears and plums and damsons from the trees in our yard, and my grandmother would make preserves for me. Now I'm wondering if Grandma was too lazy to make jam, but after reading this thread, I'm not sure I know what jam is anymore.

Picking back up on the less controversial topic of abortion, I strongly believe that . . .

 

[BadAmy]

Preserves.

Motherfucker!

 

[EroticSearcher]

Most people who are parents probably shouldn’t be.

You know... I'd agree with that! Especially when I see the way some youngsters are these days!

 

[RjThoughts]

Preserves.

Motherfucker!

Damn straight! I love those pieces of strawberries!

 

[RjThoughts]

When I was a child, I'd fill grocery bags with pears and plums and damsons from the trees in our yard, and my grandmother would make preserves for me. Now I'm wondering if Grandma was too lazy to make jam, but after reading this thread, I'm not sure I know what jam is anymore.

Picking back up on the less controversial topic of abortion, I strongly believe that . . .

My great-grandmother made raspberry preserves, even though only TWO people in the family liked them. She'd use what was left in the cellar the following month before Ash Wednesday to stuff some paczkis with, then only three of us would eat those LOL

 

[crazychemgirl]

Preserves.

Motherfucker!

Preserves = jam = jelly

 

[RjThoughts]

Preserves = jam = jelly

*Pulls out recipes from the country*

Jelly: Jelly is made with strained fruit juice. There are no pieces of fruit in jelly.
Jam: Jam is made with mashed fruit.
Preserves: Preserves have whole fruit or large pieces of fruit

 

[KatieDoes]

There’s a lot of jam jelly preserves blasphemy going on in this thread.

 

[crazychemgirl]

*Pulls out recipes from the country*

Jelly: Jelly is made with strained fruit juice. There are no pieces of fruit in jelly.
Jam: Jam is made with mashed fruit.
Preserves: Preserves have whole fruit or large pieces of fruit

I saw potato … you say potato

 

[RjThoughts]

I saw potato … you say potato

I have far too many women and men in the families who would HAUNT me if I did not say the differences. They'd most likely remove my sense of taste when I'd open a jar of raspberry preserves!

 

[RjThoughts]

For my daughter's lunches, I would mix peanut butter and Hershey's chocolate syrup together and spread that on bread, then add apples or banana slices or both.

 

[MindYaBitness]

I have far too many women and men in the families who would HAUNT me if I did not say the differences. They'd most likely remove my sense of taste when I'd open a jar of raspberry preserves!

Samesies! I know the difference, but I don't care what you call which

 

[Noor]

Women should come first. Apparently not all men agree

 

[MindYaBitness]

if we can't agree on the jam/jelly/preserves debate, can we at least agree that toast & jam (or whatever you call it) is better than bread & butter?

 

[RjThoughts]

Samesies! I know the difference, but I don't care what you call which

Wait until some read that I STILL put peanut butter in a bowl, knife out some strawberry preserves, mix it up, then spread it on bread!!

Older sister did it with grape.

 

[RjThoughts]

if we can't agree on the jam/jelly/preserves debate, can we at least agree that toast & jam (or whatever you call it) is better than bread & butter?

Toast and fruit stuff - can't say fruit spread because that was a thing in the 70s and was GROSS! - is a perfect midnight snack at 3 AM

 

[Dirt_in_the_Ground]

My great-grandmother made raspberry preserves, even though only TWO people in the family liked them. She'd use what was left in the cellar the following month before Ash Wednesday to stuff some paczkis with, then only three of us would eat those LOL

Making preserves is just another one of those things people used to do to pass the time while they were waiting for somebody to invent the Internet, I reckon.