Yes yes 
When I can tell a friend who doesn’t know the game without referring to the rules what happened in the game. It doesn’t have to be weird, but weird gets bonus points.
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Oh no. Should we fork a thread here? “Tell the story of a game session and we will guess the game.”
I built an empire of donkeys and put pigs on the donkeys until everyone in the market ran in terror.
(Games, poorly explained)
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Not in this thread they’re not, surely. No way in this green earth are Marmite or Vegemite jams.
All good jams are lovely, but there’s something special about a chunky marmalade.
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Very much not a traditional British English formulation.
(Some British people doubtless use it, because standards have slipped dreadfully…
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When I was a kid (California) jams were either baggy swimsuits or songs. I think “This is my jam” (song) became “This is my anything” at some point.
In Philly, true locals use “jahn” even more broadly, theorized to have started from “joint.”
I love language trivia, even when it’s just credible theorizing.
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For me a jam is either a sticky situation (a pickle, you might say), some kind of musical improvisation, or, well, a jam. Like marmalade.
Of course jam is also a verb, and jammy is an adjective - meaning lucky, rather than covered in jam. Which it can also mean. Hence Jammy Dodgers.
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And of course jam is not jelly. Jelly is what you have with ice cream at your birthday party.
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No, that is commonly referred to as “cake.”
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I think he means jello or pudding?
Though I’ve had cake with jam between the layers.
What was the question?
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“Jelly” for gelatin dessert first appears in Hanna Glasse’s The Art of Cookery (1747). The Jell-O brand was introduced in 1897 in New York and the genericised trademark has become the standard term for it in the USA and Canada.
“Jelly” for a fruit preserve, like a jam but with any solid fruit filtered out, needs something to cross-polymerise the sugars to make the thing set. Originally that was also gelatin, though that’s now been replced by pectin. Commercial gelatin comes in some time in the late 1600s, so the fruit jelly postdates that, but I don’t know by how much. This usage is quite rare at least in British English, where we tend to prefer jam.
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And quince “cheese” just exists to confuse
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Let me get this straight.
If I spill marmalade on my lucky pajamas, I have jammy jammy jammies?
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Depends on the flavour it could be yummy jammy jammy jammies…
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Marmalade isn’t jam.
flips table
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