English food revisited

[bboyminn]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bboyminn" <bboyminn@> 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"?
>

bboyminn:

It was my presumably humorous and slight sarcastic way of 
referencing anything made with Gelatine (gelatin). Jello, or as
you call it 'jelly', is made from -

***This is slightly painful if you like Jello, but - ***

Gel·a·tin also gel·a·tine n. 1.a. A colorless or slightly yellow, transparent, brittle protein formed by boiling the specially prepared skin, bones, and connective tissue of animals and used in foods, drugs, and photographic film. 

In other words, horse hooves (and other similar stuff). 

What we in the USA call Jelly, which is something you spread 
on toast, is 'gelled' with fruit pectin, as are most jams and
preservers. 

Sorry, it was just my idea of a joke.

Steve/bboyminn