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Thread #152892   Message #3577779
Posted By: GUEST,Eliza
21-Nov-13 - 01:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Fear the Jell-O
Subject: RE: BS: Fear the Jell-O
Well, I buy Chivers jelly. It's a little waxy packet containing 12 shiny rubbery cubes (squares) all joined together in a block. You cut off with scissors however many you need, and dissolve them in a little boiling water. You then add cold water according to the directions on the pack. I add juice of the fruit too. Chivers comes in many flavours, each of the appropriate colour. Lemon, orange, raspberry, strawberry etc. But the squares of 'raw' jelly are absolutely delicious. You can chew on them as they're rubbery and sweet. As a little girl, I once got stuck into my mum's Chivers jelly and ate square after square, my cheeks were bulging. I tried to do up the packet again, but she was livid! It's never been called jell-o here in UK as far as I know. I seem to remember a skipping chant that went, "Jelly on a plate, jelly on a plate, wibble wobble wibble wobble, jelly on a plate!" (To the tune of 'Knees up Mother Brown') It continued, "Sausage in the pan, sausage in the pan, turn it over, turn it over" etc. We've always loved our jelly!