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- From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
- Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
- In-Reply-To: traum@silver.lcs.mit.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 19:53:45 GMT
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:09:41
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- In article <1993Jan26.195345.20499@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> traum@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Jonathan Traum) writes:
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- Now here in the US, jam and jelly are identical. But in the British
- Commonwealth, jelly is what we call jello (which is actually a brand
- name for a gelatin dessert).
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- "Not in MY usage," says the Mandelbear. "Maybe it's an east-coast
- thing, but in my family jelly is filtered, while jam isn't, i.e. it
- has bits of fruit pulp and maybe seeds in it."
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