Only thing I’ve ever put on a PB&J is fruit preserves from a glass jar. The kind that is a heterogeneous suspension of small fruit chunks in a medium. I would use the terms jelly and jam completely interchangeably talking about that stuff.
Never heard of or seen “seedless jam” like that in the OP image before.
Jell-O and jelly are completely different in my mind. Jell-O is Jell-O, jelly is the thing I described above.
We seem to have stumbled onto a very strange cultural/linguistic oddity. I legitimately never considered that Americans put this “seedless jam” stuff on their sandwiches. I always assumed American PB&J was identical to Canadian.
I’ve seen Welch’s gummies before… Never jelly in a squeeze bottle like that though. The jam aisle at most grocery stores I’ve gone to is pretty much just Smuckers and similar jarred jams
Interesting. We have jars of smucker’s jellies here in America too, but it’s the homogenous seedless kind as described above, same stuff that’s in the squeeze bottle. We don’t really call it “seedless preserves” here though, that’s just implied with jelly. I might call the heterogeneous kind you described “jam” or “preserves” instead of jelly, but that distinction might be a local thing.
i too, grew up calling it “jam”… preserves were actually the extra heterogeneous variety, usually homemade… and jelly was the congealed, grape flavored, high fructose corn syrup…
and then there’s apple butter… which is just made out of apples…
Canadian.
Only thing I’ve ever put on a PB&J is fruit preserves from a glass jar. The kind that is a heterogeneous suspension of small fruit chunks in a medium. I would use the terms jelly and jam completely interchangeably talking about that stuff.
Never heard of or seen “seedless jam” like that in the OP image before.
Jell-O and jelly are completely different in my mind. Jell-O is Jell-O, jelly is the thing I described above.
We seem to have stumbled onto a very strange cultural/linguistic oddity. I legitimately never considered that Americans put this “seedless jam” stuff on their sandwiches. I always assumed American PB&J was identical to Canadian.
From what I know, jam is what you described as the heterogenous fruit preserve. It’a basically fruits roughly choped, sugar and pectine.
Jelly is kinda the same thing, but instead of using whole fruits, you use juice (with sugar and pectine).
Jell-o is generally artificially flavored gelatine (which comes from animal bones).
If I’m not mistaken, in Canada there are laws specifying what can be labeled as jam and jelly, like sugar concentration and stuff like that.
You’re a Canadian and you’ve never seen Welch’s grape jelly, or jelly in general?
I’ve seen Welch’s gummies before… Never jelly in a squeeze bottle like that though. The jam aisle at most grocery stores I’ve gone to is pretty much just Smuckers and similar jarred jams
Interesting. We have jars of smucker’s jellies here in America too, but it’s the homogenous seedless kind as described above, same stuff that’s in the squeeze bottle. We don’t really call it “seedless preserves” here though, that’s just implied with jelly. I might call the heterogeneous kind you described “jam” or “preserves” instead of jelly, but that distinction might be a local thing.
i too, grew up calling it “jam”… preserves were actually the extra heterogeneous variety, usually homemade… and jelly was the congealed, grape flavored, high fructose corn syrup…
and then there’s apple butter… which is just made out of apples…
In the US jelly, jam, and preserves are all close to the same thing (fruit spread that you put on sandwiches)