Wtf is that jelly? Why does it come in what appears to be a ketchup squeeze bottle? Why does it mix homogeneously with the PB? That’s not jelly, it’s some kind of synthetic grape-flavour paste!
Out of curiosity, are you British/European?
In the UK at least (and by extension other European countries which tend to prefer UK nomenclature when using English) jelly has a different connotation than it does in the US.
British jelly is gelatin, set in a mold. In the US, that dish is more commonly known as Jell-O, a name brand of gelatin that has entered common use.
American jelly is what the British would call seedless jam, a fruit spread made like jam but with the more solid parts of the fruit like seeds filtered out until it is a single consistency. It traditionally comes in jars, but its viscosity makes it easy to put in a squeeze bottle like ketchup.
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.
It’s a little weird, here’s an article that would describe the process of making some if you’re curious:
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-make-easy-homemade-jelly-basic-jelly
I prefer jam in general, but a lot of people find this stuff easier to spread on a pb&j sandwich (like softer untoasted bread) or other uses where a thick texture would make jam more difficult to use but they still want the fruit goo (like filling a pastry with maybe). Usually we would use the word jam to mean like a chunkier fruit preserve, and jelly specifically refers to this stuff.
You’re a Canadian and you’ve never seen Welch’s grape jelly, or jelly in general?
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.
I guess they don’t have sieves or strainers in Canada? It’s very interesting technology, I’d look into it! I recommend a chinois for starters, but if you really wanna go all out, get a tamis.
Because he’s already experienced it here on earth 😎
An offense to everything Good and Right. Off with their head.
I did that as a kid on occasion and have done it as an adult to relive my childhood.
Don’t knock it until you try it. In the right proportions, the sugar of the jelly mixed with the fat of the peanut butter, creates PB&J flavored frosting.
For example eating a stick of butter is gross or eating a cup of sugar is too much. But mix them together and you get frosting which when spread on cake is amazing.
They make that peanut butter and jelly combo jar but it’s not fully blended like this. I could have sworn there was a squeeze version with both too back in the day but I can’t find evidence.
