trillian

Sissy? hmmm. lets see:

Who wears 137 pads with plastic armor, mouth guard, helmet, neck brace, and plays for a whole 10 seconds in a row? And which sport is more likely to have a guy continue playing with a fractured ankle and a giant gash on his head?


trillian

VonEvilstein

Pickles, jams and chutneys. Or so my Mum says.

mecca777

Heh. In the 1956 FA Cup Final, Manchester City's goalkeeper Bert Trautmann stayed on the field after breaking his neck. They didn't find that out until well after the game, but I imagine it was still probably quite sore at the time.

And of course, who can forget Terry Butcher (apart from Sunderland fans)?

BigJim

sigh. The fishing is too easy round these parts. Caught me a 'Merkin and a Brit.

Boro Nut

Only after I'd thrown them back in.

Treacle Worshipper

Originally posted by BigJim
Have you heard of a few chaps named Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle?

Ah! *light dawns* Monty Python's Flying Circus. Thank you. Round here it usually gets referred to as "Python" (no further explanation necessary) hence the confusion.

Originally posted by Nowhere357
Righto, sorry mate.

That's okay.

How could anyone forget about Wales?

Very easily. People do it all the time. ~shrug~

TW

keyser_soze

There is Jello
There is Jam
There is Jelly
There are preserves.


None of these things are the same...you people need to learn a bit.

PJPSYCO

There is marmalade as well.

BioBeing

No no no.

Preserves are the general class of "preserved" fruits and vegetables.

Jelly, in the sense of preserves, (and as someone mentioned above) is from strained fruit - i.e. it is smooth.

Jam has the pips and stuff still in it. Raspberry jam is my favourite.

Marmalade is a specific name for preserves made from oranges, and can be chunkey or smooth (although smooth marmalade is an abomination), so could theoretically fall into either "jam" or "jelly" class. Paddington Bear eats marmalade sandwiches.

Chutneys are generally made from vegetables instead of fruit, and tend to be savoury instead of sweet. Pickles, as in Branston Pickle, is a chutney. Pickles, as in pickled dill pickles, are not a chutney, but a pickled (stored in vinegar or salt water) preserved vegetable. Pickeled garlic turns blue and is very tasty.

Jelly is also the name of what the Yanks call jello - the gelatin stuff you use for making trifles. This, however, is not a preserve.

anti-X

Good quip! You have my respect.

:notworthy