Serene Vannoy wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>> The stuff that comes in a packet and which is mixed with boiling and
>>> then cold water is Jell-O, and it is made with gelatine. It is quite
>>> common for people to refer to it as "jelly" though it isn't really
>>> jelly.
>>
>> Where? I never heard Jell-O called "jelly" back in the midwest, nor
>> have I here in Southern California.
>>
>> Is that a Dixie abomination, like calling all soft drinks "Coke"?
>>
> It's a British thing.

What I quoted was not from Rightpondia.

It was from Canada, I'll grant you.


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