[lit-ideas] Re: Joy and Satisfaction...

Surely the most common jam is bakeapple.

Universalizing his Newfoundlandish particularities,

Walter O.


Quoting cblists@xxxxxxxx:

> 
> On 19-Aug-08, at 3:26 AM, David Wright wrote:
> 
> > Oh.  And black currant jam is the most common jam.
> > From: "David Ritchie" 18 Aug 2008
> > I wonder if the Jam and Anchovies would be a good name for a pub?
> > Somebody responded to my thing about jam, which caused me to launch
> > into a slightly different rant concerning the proper ingredients,
> > "Jam, btw, should be made of raspberries, strawberries,
> > blackberries or apricots. Can't think of anything else suitable.
> > Only weird people like my wife consider eating jam made out of
> > grapes or gooseberries or martian anchovies." The reference to my
> > wife was hyperbole; she has a tendency to buy blends of
> > stuff--green tea and elderberries, with ginger (I'm making this
> > up, but you get the idea)-- try a spoonful and then declare a
> > moratorium on same. And I use the term "weird" with friendly
> > intent; we're all weird in someone's world view. As Firesign
> > Theater put it so well, "We're all bozos on *this* bus."
> 
> Where does orange marmalade stand in the 'most common jam' rating?   
> (Why are all others 'jam' but orange 'marmalade'?  The German  
> 'Marmelade' [note the 2 'e's] has the same extension as the English  
> 'jam'.)
> 
> In my humble yet well-informed opinion Wilkin & Sons 'Tawny' Orange  
> Marmalade [Tiptree, Essex, UK] is unsurpassed (although I have before  
> me an unopened jar of W & S's Organic Orange Marmalade which I have  
> received as a gift).  W & S has several other versions - including, I  
> believe, one containing Cointreau - and I have sampled most.
> 
> My guess for 'most common' rating here in Germany would  be:  
> strawberry, orange, black currant, bramble, raspberry.  (There must be  
> a source for country-by-country statistics - anyone?)
> 
> In recent years several German companies have introduced strawberry- 
> [other fruit or flavour] combinations as there are not enough  
> strawberries grown here to meet the demand.  (One year a local company  
> made much of using 'quality' strawberries imported from Mexico - as if  
> the reason were higher quality and not local shortage.)
> 
> I have not tasted a commercial strawberry jam that matches a good home- 
> made batch.  Here at the local market good bramble and black currant  
> jams are also available.
> 
> I am just about to nip out to the local baker to purchase a Hamburger  
> Franzbroetchen (a sort of cinnamon bun in the shape of a squashed  
> croissant) for breakfast; perhaps I'll get a croissant and sample the  
> organic [orange] marmalade, instead.
> 
> (Know Thyself. Probably I'll get both ....)
> 
> Chris Bruce
> setting up the tea-making
> and egg-boiling apparatuses, in
> Kiel, Germany
> 
> PS: Why not 'Anne and Jamchovies' (for the pub name, that is)?
> 
> Good old Firesign Theater - thanks for reminding me.  I always took  
> 'this bus' (i.e., the one on which we are all bozos) to refer to the  
> planet.
> 
> Ah - the sun has come out.  I'll be breakfasting in the garden if you  
> need me ....
> 
> - cb
> 
> 
> 
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