Talk:Fruit preserves/Archive 1

Why this page was created
This article was created as a result from a merger proposal at Talk:Gelatin dessert page.

The merger resulted in the following articles:


 * Fruit preserves is this new article
 * Some of the text of the original article Jelly was merged into the article Fruit preserves, and the page Jelly was converted to a redirect that points to Jelly;
 * The text of the original article Jam was merged into the article Fruit preserves, and the page Jam was converted to a redirect that points to Jam (disambiguation);
 * The remainder of the original Jelly article was merged into the Gelatin dessert article and it was edited to reflect the merger decision. It may need some clean-up.

The following articles were left intact but referenced with a Main article: tag in the new article, Fruit preserves:


 * Fruit curd
 * Fruit butter
 * Marmalade

Please take the time to help make this new article into a featured grade article, including citing the appropriate sources, cleaning up the structure of the text and making it as accurate as possible.

Jerem43 23:43, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Grass Jelly is what?
"Grass jelly, a fodifood from China and Southeast Asia" - what is "fodifood", apart from a Googlewhackblatt? nemo 19:26, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Gelatin dessert, Fruit preserves, Jam and Jelly edits by Milk-maid
has made a series of moves with these articles undoing the results of the discussion at Talk:Gelatin dessert. It is her opinion that they should reverted to the original articles using only Commonwealth English references and naming. When the discussion and its results were pointed out to she dismissed it and moved them anyway.

Please keep an eye on these articles to prevent her from doing so again.

-Jeremy (Jerem43 05:37, 31 October 2007 (UTC))

Terminology still muddled
[Merged "Jam & jelly naming in the US" into this section.] Sluggoster (talk) 04:20, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

This page is still a mess in it's handling of terminology.

The term "preserves" suffers the same issue as the term "jam" and "jelly", that is, not everyone means the exact same thing by it. Some count it a synonym for jam (U.S. meaning?), some consider it to be chunkier than jam, some (judging from the decision to make it the generic heading for this whole article) consider it to be a general term encompassing all the variants. For this reason I don't think it should be the main page title, the title should be something vaguer like "fruit spreads".

It might even make sense to merge this further with relishes, ketchups (in the old sense of the term, which did not have to mean tomato), chutneys etc, which are in the same family, and also overlap with these categories in some ways.

The conserve definition ("The word 'conserve' may be used as an alternative term for 'jam'") is unsatisfactory. I don't think everyone means the same thing by this term either, and it's clear from the other discussions and a quick check of the dictionary many people consider it something distinctly different from jam.

The fruit spread definition ("Fruit spread refers to a jam or preserve with no added sugar") is also unsatisfactory. In the U.S. at least, manufacturers have recently begun using this term this way to distinguish their product from jams and sell to people concerned with their sugar intake, but this hardly makes the official and only definition of the term. I think many would still consider this term as covering jams, jellies, etc.

--Ericjs (talk) 06:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

What is the source of the comment "Although these terms exist in North America, the UK and Australia, popularly most jams are generically referred to as 'jelly' in North America?" I've lived in North America all of my life (Rhode Island, Washington DC, New Jersey and Toronto) and I have never known jam and jelly to be confused with one another.

J. Rydberg 06:20, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

my personal usage has always been jelly = clear, jam = jelly with its mashed-up fruit, preserves = barely mashed up fruit held together in a jelly-like way. it's just a matter of degrees of chunkiness. in any case, it's all "jelly" when paired with peanut butter, but that's because "peanut butter and jam" doesnt have that brand-name sound to it. kind of like how i used to call all soft drinks "coke." we talk funny in illinois too :) 76.217.123.85 21:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree with the above disagreements with that statement. Some people may sloppily use the term jelly for both, but we should not confuse the ignorance of some speakers of the generally accepted (regional) distinction.--Ericjs (talk) 06:30, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

The whole "Regional terminology" section should be deleted. The US portion is plain wrong. The Commonwealth portion duplicates the rest of the page (although emphasis on Australia and South Africa can be added elsewhere). Sluggoster (talk) 04:20, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

"Jam" is a good title for this page. Americans would not consider jelly a subset of jam, but given that it's technically jam without the fruit pieces, putting it in a "jam" article makes sense. "Fruit preserves" is a bad title because I don't think that's a common term for anybody. "Preserves" seems more formal; something written on a jam label to make it look higher quality. "Peanut butter & jelly" is just a stock phrase; you say it even while you're spreading jam on the sandwich. That doesn't mean jam is jelly; it just means "peanut butter & jelly" is a stock phrase. Just like "fish n chips" means fish and french fries. The fries are "chips" when they're with the fish, but they're still fries. "Peanut butter & jam" exists and means exactly the same thing, but it's a much less common term. I have never heard of "conserves" or "config", so I wouldn't consider them a good article title. Sluggoster (talk) 04:20, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

How dare you sir! (mock outrage here) I object to your claim that the "chips" in "fish and chips" are fries. They are ALWAYS chips (at least to an Australian or Brit)... and therein lies the nub of the terminology issue for jam/jelly. (MESSAGE ENDS)


 * Chutney is a fruit relish
 * Jam already exists
 * as does Jelly
 * Look at the discussion that created this article and you will see the reasons for its existence. --Jeremy ( Blah blah... ) 06:53, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Chutney
Should there be a link to chutney? To me it's indistinguishable from jelly (US usage). Sluggoster (talk) 04:22, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Chutneys are different from fruit preserves in that they are a savoury relish containing spices. Their origin and history is also different.Gymnophoria (talk) 15:56, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Popularity of jams and jellies in the U.S.
Here's a citation:

http://www.jelly.org/spreadstats.html

I'm deleting that bit claiming jelly as more popular. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ericjs (talk • contribs) 06:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Jam was one of the first foods ever discovered
This is nonsense, surely? How can it have been one of the first foods ever discovered - it's a man made product. So unless it was left on earth by aliens before any natural foodstuff evolved, this can't be true. This seems to be a semantic error - it may have been one of the first foods invented, or made, not discovered.

Treeturtle81 (talk) 15:24, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Its vandalism. I'll remove it. --Jeremy ( Blah blah... ) 17:36, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Extra Jam
There is something called extra jam, which has a higher fruit content than jam. Someone with more expertise ought to write something perhaps.--Mongreilf (talk) 18:18, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've added a short para to the section Fruit preserves, as it's these that defined "extra jam" (which I've always assumed must sound better in some other EU languages than it does in English). Qwfp (talk) 20:50, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Fruit Cheese
I've added a section on fruit cheese which seemed to be missing - there was a link to Quince Cheese under the Jelly section, but fruit cheeses are made using the whole pulp of the fruit and so are different from a jelly (or a jam), as described in the referenced book (and others). Luke Harris (talk) 22:17, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Singular versus plural
has suggested that the term "fruit preserves" is idiomatic here, and that the singular "preserve" is wrong. I've got a jar in my cupboard now which suggests otherwise (it's labelled "strawberry preserve") and I've never heard of the idiomatic use of "fruit preserves" in the first place, so I'd appreciate some further input. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 00:32, 8 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Traditionally the plural is used in the United States and Canada, I do not know what they use in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. A quick Google search finds that most major brands use the plural (Smuckers, Knotts Berry Farm, Welch's), as well as a search on wikibooks shows that most recipes refer to them in the plural. It appears that some smaller manufacturers use the term Fruit Preserve on their products to differentiate themselves from other producers, but that appears to be in the minority.


 * As it stands, I believe that this is a WP:Engvar issue and since the article was created using American English it should stay under the American naming standard of Fruit preserves. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 03:51, 8 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I suspected as much. Very well, no objections to a move back on the condition that the engvar distinction remains in the lede (ideally by restoring and editing the recently-improved version). Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 10:02, 8 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I fixed the lead, please put it back. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 16:00, 17 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Done. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 16:33, 18 October 2009 (UTC)