Peanut butter jelly time.

Ladders are ladders, whether to climb or in the stocking. I suppose the ladder in the stocking came about because it really does look like a ladder. I know lorry is English but we call them trucks. The English pick-up is a ute here (utility: ute for short). What is it there? A suitcase here is a port (although now it is more often a case) I carried a port to school. Any advances? Car is an interesting one. Carrier sounds logical, but who knows? And of course, our boot is your trunk. Do you have lollies there?

hi cloudwatcher I am an American and I call the thick gooey stuff jam jam. and the clear wiggly fruit jelly I call jelly. so there too and so how.also jelly is jelly not Jello which is gelatin. now all clear on this. also when peanuts are finely ground and mixed with a bit of oil it is the consistency of butter that is why we call it peanutbutter. Us screwy Americans.

Hi cloudwatcher, an interesting response with an Australian take. Well as far as I know there is no such thing as either cotton candy of fairy floss in Greece, and in the UK it was always known as candy floss, which I think is the best of the three versions here. My son has expressed a wish to taste that as he's read about it, but no wish at all to taste peanut butter. If I had a carpet, which I don't, I would most definitely hoover it, regardless of what I was using to do it with, it's just one of those terms which sticks. Australians in coach parties used to call crisps chips and of course be directed to the frozen food section for frozen chips, to their complete bewilderment. Creamed honey, is that the dreaded honey of my childhood, I think it must be. I asked to try honey and this cream stuff was purchased and put into a sandwich. It was the most ghastly thing I had ever tasted, but as I had asked for it I was meant to eat it. I remember it to this day. It is only three years ago that I began to eat honey, real clear runny hunny, which I now have every day in yogurt. It took me that long to overcome my aversion and realise they were two different things. They don't sell creamed honey out here.

See this is where I get a little confused. Jelly, Jam, Preserves, their all the same to me, Thea. They can all be spread... I guess some easier then other. We usually get Jelly tho...

So you're confused as well now. Jelly to me is a dessert which sits in a bowl and wobbles. As far as I knew JEllo was something which they seem to serve in American hospitals. And jam is a preserve which goes on buttered toast. I suspect it could be the latter that you put with peanut butter but am clueless as you now say they are all the same thing.

Finally someone willing to clarify the jelly situation. So when you say jelly, as in preserve, to go with peanut butter, you mean jam. But then again jam is most easily spread. HElP me out here Amber, jelly IS jam, is that right?

Thanks for volunteering to go down into the crypt of no response!....muhahahaha Me,I don't get this fascination with orange or lemon peel in a marmalade..You don't EAT orange peel when eating a fresh orange,do You,so why have it in the Jar? If it didn't have the peel,I'd probably be eating more marmalade..as is,I'll pick the shred bits out,as spitting them out afterwards tends to annoy folk..

I just hope I didn't say when I'd hit the zero responses but I will. On Greek time though.

Hi ShepherSpy, I'll be getting rid of some of your no responses when I have the chance, expect the standard response if they have links in but it will be enough to clear them out for you. We don't grow butternut squash round here so they must be from another bit of Greece, I hardly think we'll conquer the world with it though. Saying that just ten years ago I struggled to buy an aubergine in the UK but I expect you have them all over the place now, but just the perfectly shaped ones to comply with an EU directive. Now I would just call shredless marmalade marmalade but not buy it, but only buy the thick one. I may have mentioned that the Greek word for jam is actually 'marmalatha'.

Hi jillhill, I'm overdosed now on peanut butter and jelly, really hoped you enjoyed your supper.

Hi Aunty, do avoid the song at all costs, it is truly dire, but recognised so far in both America and Australia, but I have no idea which continent is responsible for it. The more I've read about peanut butter here the less inclined I am to try it, and it is very pricey as imported I noticed when checking the shelves to see if it is sold here. He declined my offer to buy some but if he ever has it somewhere else he will either want it at home or never want it again, but I don't really see any of his friends Greek mamas offering up peanut butter sandwiches in favour of a nice tomato.

I love tomatoes to. I'm sure i'll miss the song unless ryan turns up singing it.

Hi solared, no never once tried peanut butter, but as you say it is an American thing to eat it all the time, and I've been across the pond. And I loathe milk with a vengeance. Our staple foods are olives, tomtoes, saganaki (a special kind of fried cheese) and mousaakkas. If a Greek person ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I kid you not, they would put lemon and oregano in it.

Yes, a money belt is another name for it I guess, only these are a bit more than a belt - it's like a belt with a purse attached, worn around one's middle. Cheese and onion is also great. We have gourmet cheese here, a soft cheese with bits of fruit through it and sometimes chopped nuts as well. There is also a cheese and chives one and cheese and pepper, there are several types actually. My favourite is the fruit and cheese one...you're missing out mate.

Well Ms Tickle you've gone and confused me there as I'm not familiar with either type of bag but the first one you refer to I do get the other reference but can't recall which country uses it. So I think if you're not talking about a back pack you must be talking about a money belt. Having heard the descriptions of peanut butter now as a greasy spread consisting of crushed peanuts I'm not tempted, even though it has now been imported into our local shop no doubt for foreign visitors. I've been told that the price here though is indeed outrageously high compared to the rest of the world. As for cheese and jam together the mind boggles and I will stick with cheese and onion.

Hi scarlet_woman, Zeph mentioned that same TV programme but didn't say it was a cartoon. I will have to put a ban on cartoons I seek. Maybe they haven't translated the hamster dance cartoon into Greek yet. I don't think there's much chance of 'fluff' reaching our shelves, the imports are mainly geared for the Brits and I can't really see them being much into that.

i doubt the british would eat that too. it's ungodly sweet.we have way too many sugarfied things when i think about it.

How much does a central heating oil there costs? Same here; peanut butter is most costly than say, butter or milk and eggs. I'm sure your son is a very sensible child and knows not to ask things that are pretty expensive.. good mom, that you are.

Hi Zed, I think the Americans are to blame for that dreadful song, you really don't want to hear it. My son doesn't dislike peanut butter, he's just never tasted it and children don't like something they've never tasted before unless it looks like a sweet generally. It's very expensive here so I'm quite happy that he didn't want me to buy it. Brr it is freezing here, I thought it would have warmed up by now, I'm going to have to mylot madly to buy some central heating oil, I never even think about putting any in the tank until December normally.

I've not checked out the price of oil yet but I invariably buy it at the wrong time, last winter if I'd held out another week I would have saved 27 euros on my 800 litres. Times are tight though now and it will need replenishing, I expect I'll have to make do with 500 ltrs for the winter, last time it was 67 cents a litre which would cost me now 335 euros ( one euro = $ 1'67) but will last no time at all if used. An actual warm house for the winter would cost me over 2000 euros so I forsee it is going to be pretty miserable this year.

I'm not fond of jelly myself (Holly's description - jam with the fruit bits removed). I'd rather have the fruit bits...

I have to say reading all these that my first assumption about jelly was right, best to be avoided at all costs. My marmalade has to be orange too which amazingly as oranges are in season all year round is hard to find sometimes, as they like to fob us off with peach instead.

I only like mint sauce with lamb not mint jelly. The Greeks are disgusted by what they consider this foul habit as it isn't Greek.They never fail to comment and if its in a jar they like to pass it round and sniff the contents.

pate? I've never thought of peanut butter as expensive! I love making sammichs out of it with bananas.

Imported my dear. Thus pricey.

So what are you actually putting with this butter stuff on your sandwiches, is it so difficult to get a straight answer or is it a secret guarded by Americans. Is jelly jelly, jam, or jello? Zeph, you're saying a dog makes that foul noise

jelly is too wobbly for a sandwich. jam might be ok.

jello is a brand name. i don't call things by brand names - a computer program is not a microsoft, a packet of crisps is not a walkers, a dodgy website is not a wnd. jello is a brand of jelly. case closed.

Do so. But are you a jelly or jam?

oh am 100% original jelly! Jam has tried duplicating me but still can't get it right

oh am 100% original jelly! Jam has tried duplicating me but still can't get it right

Hi sunny, it's funny how we start getting all these imported foods which we've never seen before. I really don't buy any because of the high price of imports, except worcster sauce of course which I add to lots of things in the winter. Luckily my Indian spices appear to last well beyond their sell by dates as I have very large bags of things like cumin and gram masala. The tiny little jars of it are really pricey here.

I wonder why the bother putting an expiration date on the packet then? I'm glad to hear that though Sunny as I can add them without worrying about them, I also find that my huge tubs of Thai curry paste have an indefinite life long beyond their expiration date but keep them in the fridge once opened.

...yeah..they try to impose upon us some very strange things. i tried watching some cookery shows on TV....i failed to understand them... btw - spices never expire...just keep them in a dry and cool place.

Hi Garden Gerty, thank you, you are the first person ever to explain what an American biscuit is, they are always eating them with gravy and savoury things in my American books and no one ever gave an explanation before. So a biscuit is a bread roll. The English muggins are flat bread rolls but taste better than normal bread rolls and are heavier than baps, which you call a bun, the kind of thing they use in those awful fast food places to fill with burgers. Zucchinis are courgettes. Fudge is fudge. We don't get that here either and I have never managed to make it successfully, it's just a runny mess whenever I've attempted it, but I wouldn't attempt it now in case my son became addicted.

Hi dlr, believe me you don't ever want to hear that song, it is truly dreadful and consists of just the one line repeated endlessly. I have only just discovered that peanut butter has no butter in it, and you are the first American here to apparently know what jam is, so bravo. Despite repeated explanations of what jelly actually is I can now conclude from what you so clearly say is that jelly is simply jam without the chunky bits in.

Are we in the peanut butter discussion, I've lost track its gone off in so many tangents. I think I'll not bother buying it as if we dislike it it is a waste and if we like it it is too expensive. Thanks for noticing I kept on touch with the mass number of responses.

So we really do have America to thank for that noisy drivel, well done. I've got Australia on here denying responsibility as they've heard of it too.