OT: Best Jellies and Jams Thread
Good morning. I like jellies and jams. Do you? Let's talk together about our love for various jellies and jams. Here's my ranking:
- Strawberry jam
- Peach jam
- Raspberry jam
- Blackberry jam
- Grape jelly
What about the rest of you jelly and jam loving degenerates?
Also, I did this because Rob F dared me to...
September 14th, 2021 at 7:57 AM ^
Best jams:
1. Slow
September 14th, 2021 at 9:32 AM ^
Honorable mention: Jock
September 14th, 2021 at 11:54 AM ^
Worst jams:
1. The Grateful Dead.
2. All other jam bands.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:02 AM ^
We make:
1) Strawberry
2) Mulberry
3) Habanero Apricot (Purchase ingredients for this one) great with cream cheese.
4) Black Raspberry-Good but super small seeds.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:10 AM ^
That Habanero/Apricot sounds awesome. And I'll bet it's great with cream cheese on a good cracker.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:04 AM ^
Apricot
Apricot/raspberry
Bon maman or Smuckers.
Grape is for savages.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:08 AM ^
“Best” isn’t just flavor. It’s also producer. I prefer American Spoon Foods & Sarabeth’s.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:21 AM ^
American Spoon! Got 4 as a gift (as I love my jellies and jams) all fantastic! Saved the jars to order more. Local too!!!
[My fb+, a Northwestern grad, gave them to me... taking him the the game this year]
September 14th, 2021 at 10:15 AM ^
What is an fb+? A fuckbuddy? Plus what? Plus presents of jellies and jams?
September 14th, 2021 at 11:23 AM ^
I'm probaby not supposed to say it here, but anal. The + means anal.
September 14th, 2021 at 5:07 PM ^
I mean what did you think I meant by "presents of jellies and jams"?
September 14th, 2021 at 7:49 PM ^
Reminds me of that joke about the difference between jelly and jam.
September 14th, 2021 at 12:43 PM ^
American Spoon blueberry/lime. And peach/habanero. Wouldn't mind spending half an hour wandering their sample room--it's been too long since I've been to Petoskey.
Also, we're two pages into the thread and there's no grapefruit marmelade?
September 14th, 2021 at 8:12 AM ^
Pearl Jam
Space Jam
Toe Jam
Phi Slama Jama
September 14th, 2021 at 8:34 AM ^
The first three suck. Phi Slama Jama was quite fun!
September 14th, 2021 at 9:47 AM ^
Sorry, but Ten is one of my favorite complete albums of all time. But we agree about Phi Slama Jama. They were a fun team.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:15 AM ^
I prefer boysenberry
more than any ordinary
jam
September 14th, 2021 at 8:26 AM ^
All your suggestions without a single mention of Marionberry…
Pathetic.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:35 AM ^
Meh. Too much coke...
September 14th, 2021 at 8:40 AM ^
All your suggestions without a single mention of Marionberry…
Never heard of her.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:58 AM ^
It was a dude and he was the crack smoking mayor of DC.
September 14th, 2021 at 10:08 AM ^
"The bitch set me up!"
Yes, Marion. She invited you to a hotel room and offered you some crack. It was her fault you snorted it. (BTW, 'she' was some bimbo not introduced as 'the Mayor's wife'...)
September 14th, 2021 at 11:51 AM ^
First of all, you don't snort crack, you smoke it. Second, that whole incident was the very definition of government entrapment.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:42 AM ^
This is funny!
September 14th, 2021 at 8:57 AM ^
There has got to be something seriously wrong with me that i got a chuckle out of this.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:38 AM ^
My Mom's homemade strawberry jam is the best I've ever had. Sadly, she passed shortly before the pandemic kicked off. When clearing the house, I grabbed the case she had left and did not share with my siblings. I only have a couple of jars left, and it's hard to open them... I'll never have it again after that last jar is emptied. Anyway:
1) Mom's homemade strawberry
2) Some farmer's market strawberry
3) Some farmer's market blackberry
No reason for anything else. Well, I guess grape jelly is good with slow cooked barbeque meatballs...
Update: Thanks to Rob F for the thread!!! It's not about camping or gravy, but it's a fun one!!!
September 14th, 2021 at 8:41 AM ^
toe jam
traffic jam
pearl jam
you did mean three least favorite, right?
September 14th, 2021 at 8:47 AM ^
I have simple tastes with food so for me its always been and will always be grape jelly.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:50 AM ^
Ok, I have to put in a plug: if you ever visit Canada, go to a Loblaws (or affiliated store) and buy President’s Choice Blue Label Twice the Fruit spread. It isn’t as loaded with sugar, but it tastes amazing. Raspberry, Strawberry, Berries of the Woods… it’s unreal for a conventionally priced store-bought.
Life-changing stuff when I discovered it. I’ve made a regular practice of buying $20-$30 worth when I visit Toronto (or, now, Thunder Bay) to stock up for a few months.
September 14th, 2021 at 10:18 AM ^
"Berries of the woods" sounds like a euphemism for dingleberries. It is, however, also a translation of the Swedish term skogsbär, which refers to a mixture of berries (usually blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries, sometimes with strawberries or red currants in there).
September 14th, 2021 at 10:36 AM ^
(Not affiliated with attorney Bob Loblaw, or Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog)
September 14th, 2021 at 8:52 AM ^
Is this a Despicable me thread?
What about marmalades? butters? preserves?
No particular order:
Apple Butter
Fig butter
Well made grape jam
Blackberry Jam
Pear preserves
Apricot preserves
Orange marmalade
Love all on seeded rye toast with butter
or toasted bagels
Wonder what kind was on Harbaugh's PB&J?
September 14th, 2021 at 8:54 AM ^
LOL, my dare was directed at the always extremely-wordy MGoBoard member 'Ezekiel's Creatures'.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Carry on...
September 14th, 2021 at 9:14 AM ^
'wordy' ? i think you spelled mr king wrong
September 14th, 2021 at 11:44 AM ^
Stephen King Jr? Have you read Stephen King? Both make it work--Stephen King Jr has billions of points, Stephen King has millions of dollars.
September 14th, 2021 at 11:52 AM ^
I think he gets a point for every paragraph
September 14th, 2021 at 8:59 AM ^
Petroleum (jelly)
September 14th, 2021 at 10:20 AM ^
You sure do pick your spots, darontal.
(This person has made 8 comments in 7 years, and this is the first comment in almost 2 years. Make with the upvotes, people.)
September 14th, 2021 at 8:59 AM ^
Huckleberry. We went to Wyoming and Montana this summer visiting national parks. Everything we saw was huckleberry. Huckleberry beer, jam, ice cream, pop, bear claws, bread, you name it. We never even heard of huckleberry in Michigan. I tried the jam and it’s now my new favorite. Like a wild blueberry. Awesome
September 14th, 2021 at 9:27 AM ^
I forgot about huckleberry jam, something my mom used to make during my childhood.
Huckleberries are like little blueberries, only tastier. And I think Fred Jackson would agree.
And yes, there really are huckleberries in Michigan---we used to pick them in the wild in the bogs near my Grandpa's farm in the Cedar Springs/Sand Lake area. We'd pick them by the buckets, then bring them home and soak them several times over in white porcelain tubs in order to remove the twigs, bugs and little bittie worms from the fruit.
Once that process was completed, mom and family would can some of the berries in mason jars, make some into huckleberry jam, and use the remainder for huckleberry pies.
Huckleberry Pies are a true GOAT of the pie world!
Huckleberries are also pretty common in northern Michigan, especially along the Lake Superior (I know this from camping at an eastern UP state campground a few years ago west of Brimley, there was info on the park kiosk about the historic role of the lowly huckleberry for both the aboriginal people of the area and for the European settlers.)
September 14th, 2021 at 9:34 AM ^
I am beginning to think that huckleberries can be found near thimbleberries. Whitefish, Montana had plenty of both on the trails and it was heavenly.
September 14th, 2021 at 10:24 AM ^
The blueberries here in Sweden are actually bilberries. They're quite like huckleberries, I think. But indeed the ubiquity of the huckleberry in Montana--and the perverse substitution of huckleberry ice cream for strawberry ice cream--is surprising the first time you encounter it. (Sadly, Sweden replaces strawberry ice cream with something much worse and therefore even more perverse: pear ice cream.)
September 14th, 2021 at 9:03 AM ^
1) Strawberry jam
2) Raspberry jam
3) Grape jelly
September 14th, 2021 at 9:06 AM ^
Maine Blueberry jam is the best.
September 14th, 2021 at 9:08 AM ^
Like Dylan said "Strawberry. Strawberry. Strawberry Strawberry Strawberry."
September 14th, 2021 at 9:11 AM ^
Excellent discussion topic.
Recently tried pear jam from Zingermans - was amazing.
Red raspberry jam is a tangy yet sweet.
Strawberry jam with the seeds is a classic.
September 14th, 2021 at 9:34 AM ^
Yes, strawberry jam MUST have the seeds, the chunkier the strawberry jam, the better.
September 14th, 2021 at 9:11 AM ^
Kilkenny’s bar in Traverse City serves corned beef & cabbage Gaelic egg rolls, with orange marmalade on the side. Doesn’t even matter how much beer I have in me, always delicious.
September 14th, 2021 at 9:13 AM ^
I'm a boysenberry jam fan.