[Closed] Is jam going out of fashion?

Jam on plain yoghurt as well, smallest lump has a bagel with jam and butter for lunch fairly often. Also needed when making trifle.

Honestly can’t imagine a world without marmalade. How anyone eats toast without it I don’t know.

newrobdob earlier:

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where's jam bo?

& lol @ dez.

He's dead now though.. coincidence?

grated tomato

expresso

Hang your head in shame.

Strawberry jam on sourdough toast this morning.

There'll be a trip to Greggs shortly though for bacon.

expresso
Hang your head in shame.

Apart from the fact I hate tomatoes, how do you grate a tomato? I suspect you may grate one or two passes of tomato skin and then crush the rest in your fist?

It's best to use fleshy tomatoes like the "beef" ones. I was sceptical at first but it does work. In any case, the Spaniards are grating tomatoes all over their toast with abandon so must be possible.

how do you grate a tomato?

perchypanther - Member
Not in our house.

"Carluke Steak" is the most commonly requested breakfast of the youngest panthercub.

Carluke steak? Explain more. Given my son has just bought house there i see a piss taking opportunity.

Apparently chlorinated American eggs need to go in the fridge. Or something. Ours don't. The moisture breaks down the natural seal on the shell and lets the germies in.

And Jam is jam. It's never gone away?? But if I am horribly out of touch and if it has, I await the hipster craft jam revival coming out of a shoreditch mk1 transit van in the coming weeks.

I sense a pop up opportunity.

6 types of bread, 8 types of jam and conserve, all artisan of course. Apart from obviously sliced white and tesco value strawberry as a hipster nod to the staple of sunday tea in the 70's of the 3 day week.

£4.50 a round, they'll be queuing down Hackney High Street to get in.

(Cue someone turning up with a link to where it's already been done)

Still have it as an occasional brekkie, bit less than I used to but only 'cos I work from home now so have more time to make proper food.

Carluke steak? Explain more

A humorous name for a Jam sandwich. A play on the fact that Jam is manufactured in Scotts Jam factory in Carluke and was the poor man's sandwich filling.
Nobody wanted to admit to having the povvy lunch so made a joke out of it to avoid embarrassment.

Miners / Steelworkers / other assorted workies often like to compare sandwich fillings on a lunch break.

"Whit's oan yer piece the day, Wullie?"

"It'll be Carluke Steak again. We're pratted. I tanned my wages doon the bookies at the weekend"

Someone needs to have doggycam sectioned.

C'mon, don't knock it till you've tried it. Classic sweet and savoury combo.

Try marmalade and sausage,,,,, yum ! 🙂

Think camambert with cranberry, or turkey

I sense a pop up opportunity.

....in a church.

Will be called ....."Saints preserve us"

To selectively quote the OP

I’d posit jam is only for posh people

I always knew I was posh

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We always have a few jars of Marmalade,jams and Lemon Curd knocking about.There's a lot of baking done in our house so they get used up.
We made 12 jars of jam this summer (4 Raspberry..8 Strawberry).
Home made jam FTW.. 😀

Oh,and

Strawberry jam and [s]cheese[/s] peanut butter is where it's at.

Many thanks perchy. Msg sent to the impoverished new home owner

Bit off topic, but am I right in thinking a rubber buccaneer is a sex toy?

Whatever you want me to be Jamie 😉

"Whit's oan yer piece the day, Wullie?"

"It'll be Carluke Steak again. We're pratted. I tanned my wages doon the bookies at the weekend"

For a second I was transported back to a Broons cartoon strip. No Christmas was complete without a Broons or Oor Wullie annual.

 

Jings, crivvens and indeed, help m' boab.

Still get the Wullie book / Broons from my Mum every Xmas.

Tradition dictates that you never read it till Ne'erday.

That stuff in doughnuts is jam, like the brown shapes you get in advent calendars is chocolate.

theotherjonv - apparently San Francisco is saturated with hipster toast cafes.

I think the decline of jam might have something to do with people realising it’s not actually in any way healthy to start your day with a massive hit of carbohydrate, sugar and fat (toast, jam and butter)?

it’not actually in any way healthy to start your day with a massive hit of carbohydrate, sugar and fats

Where's the fun in that?

No, it's just.... going underground....

Oh, well played.

Why do they give you an egg holder for the door then?

Supply and demand.

Apparently chlorinated American eggs need to go in the fridge. Or something. Ours don't. The moisture breaks down the natural seal on the shell and lets the germies in.

Pretty much. In the US it's illegal to sell pre-washed eggs, in the UK it's illegal to sell washed ones. The washing process breaks down the shell leading to a risk of salmonella contamination, so US eggs must be refrigerated. In the UK it's unnecessary, putting them in the fridge means they can pick up odours and tastes from other things (I don't think there's a great health risk though, just you might end up with oniony eggs). We also vaccinate our chickens, the US doesn't.

8 types of jam and conserve

What's the difference?

That stuff in doughnuts is jam, like the brown shapes you get in advent calendars is chocolate.

It's well known to those who know it well that the stuff in doughnuts is Merjel.

[i]It's well known to those who know it well[/i]

Mmhmm.

It's well known to those who know it well that the stuff in doughnuts is Merjel.

Ijamminati?

Ijamminati

I thought I recognised their sticky fingers all over this.

It's well known to those who know it well that the stuff in doughnuts is Merjel

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interesting

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We're fully down the rabbit hole now...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_(doughnut)

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Global conspiracy innit!

"Ich bin ein Berliner" - John F. Kennedy

Given his participation in a global doughnut conspiracy, it is somewhat ironic that he ended up with a hole in him.

That was strawberry jam all over the back seats in the Zapruder film.

Look into, sheeple!

like the brown shapes you get in advent calendars is chocolate

apart from the racist element, I always thought the brown shapes were faithful depictions of the Three Kings of Leyton Orient (one in a taxi, one in a car, one on a scooter, if I remember the religious text properly)

I do indeed come from a time when there wasn't food behind each door.

I do indeed come from a time when there wasn't food behind each door.

Given the surge in demand for food banks, that could be 2017.

like the brown shapes you get in advent calendars is chocolate

I got my advent calendar from the Jehova's Witnesses this year. It was rubbish. Behind every door was two more Jehova's Witnesses.

I've spent so much this Christmas that every time I open a door on my Advent calendar, there're bailiffs.

[i]I do indeed come from a time when there wasn't food behind each door.[/i]

theotherjonv, yesterday.

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At least we know what the v stands for now.

I ****ing love the stuff.

So much so, that I really have to limit my access to it. I generally try to keep a reasonably tight rein on my sugar intake and don’t find it too difficult to stay off the cakes, sweets and biscuits. However, sweet preserves are another matter entirely. If they’re in the house at all, I tend to consume them with all the restraint of a Pattaya sex tourist.

A good sharp raspberry is a favourite, especially paired with decent peanut butter on toast. And as for marmalade, Christ, [i]Paddington ****ing Bear[/i] doesn’t love marmalade as much as I do.

Lemon or lime curd too. The latter, spread on a slice of ginger cake is sufficient reason to go on living in any circumstances.

So, the upshot is, I don’t have them in the house, except when I’m granting myself a holiday from abstinence. I’m off for a week and a half at Christmas, during which my house will be a den of sheer jammy debauchery.

TLDR

Jam on toast makes up about 50% of my diet at the moment, A world without jam is a world I want no part of

Lemon or lime curd too. The latter, spread on a slice of ginger cake is sufficient reason to go on living in any circumstances.

I make home-made lemon & lime curd on occasion. It's balls amazetotes, or something.