English food revisited

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bboyminn" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
 
Geoff:
> > With regard to jelly, the word is not used on the context you
> > give but usually refers to the packet jellies which are made 
> > up with boiling water and used in trifles of combined with 
> > fruit such as peaches or pears as a pudding.
 
> bboyminn: 
> You mean 'jelly' is Jell-o. I know Jell-o is a brand name, but 
> at least where I am, it is the name used for all fruit flavored
> horse hooves with a jelly-like consistency. 

Geoff:
I'm sorry, I don't understand your reference to "all fruit flavoured
horse hooves"?