Okay, so. I was making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich the other day, and i look at the bottom of the jelly cap and realize there is jelly on the inside of the lid.

How does it get there???

If you think about it, there is no way for it to get there. After using the jelly for a bit, it's ALWAYS there. It's not like the jelly slides there, as I proved when I turned the entire jar over and no jelly even shuddered in its flaunting of gravity. So it's not like it slid onto the lid.

I also ruled out residue jelly attacking the lid from the sides of the jar. This would explain residual jelly on the sides of the lid, and possibly even the edge of the bottom, but certainly not the middle. There is just too much jelly on the inside of the lid, and for the life of me I cannot understand why.

[edit- it has been brought to my attention that spoons/knives often rest on the lid, but I do not do this. I use a spoon and a knife to make my sandwich, as to not contaminate either substance, and after the spoon is used it goes to the sink, not to sleep in the lid.]

I reckon the vacuum sealing process has something to do with it.

[This catchphrase has been beaten to death. And the large red letters is not needed -JG]

Well, scientifically, jelly is called a "suspensive semifluid", which means that it can at as a solid, liquid, or gas, depending on the situation. In the factory where it is packed into jars, it is first heated up in order to have it flow better. However, the heat also makes it act somewhat like a gas, in that it expands to fill its container. So when it is vacuum-packed into the jar, it fills the entire jar and therefore touches the lid. Then as the jelly is cooled, it goes back to behaving like a liquid, which leaves a small amount of vacuum in the jar (that's the "pop" you hear when you first open a sealed jar), but due to its stickiness, there is always a bit of jelly stuck to the underside of the lid.

Yes, this is all bull****.

You used the wrong mother****in shade of red, mother****a.

@ Avenger- My first thought. But after opening a fresh jar of jelly, there was NO jellification residue present on the lid. After several days of usage, I remembered the quandary and examined the lid.


JELLY.


@kyle90- the above invalidates your entire scientifically flawed theory.

Okay, well then the obvious answer is that some devious trickster has maliciously put jelly on the bottom of the lid for the purpose of confusing you.

Someone else must be using your jelly then.

Then perhaps the jelly is sentient and trying to escape.

I use your jelly, dud. I made a sandwhich with it for lunch.

Kyle loses.

I don't know.. but I bet it has something to do with the Mystery Box...

It's all one damn big consipracy. >.>

A peanut butter and jelly sandwich sounds good right now.

I forgot to mention, when examining a virgin jar for lid molestation, no evidence is found. It is only after the jar has been used does the mystery jelly appear.

Thats not funny. I know a jar who was molested once.

I can't think up Cadbury Creme Egg-level hilarity for *every* thread, you know.

If I make a funny MSPaint cartoon, will I be redeemed?

There's got to be some Chuck Norris jelly jar for a condom joke I should use right now, what with the jar molestation line being dropped

Here's a pic of what our jelly jars look like, except they're strawberry.

This mystery is so good, that its grape!

bhahaha

I guess it takes Juan to know Juan.

Your definition of jelly is silly.

Yeah, it took me a few minutes to realise you were actually talking about jam.

jam has bits of fruit in it. jelly doesnt.

But.. the package says JELLY.

You see, in the UK, we call "Jelly with bits of fruit in it" Jam, and Jam without fruit in it "sugar"- if we even sell it at all. :p

If you squeeze the bottle, the jelly/jam is pushed to the top, thus smearing some on the inside of the lid.

Have you been squeezing your bottle?

That's how I was raised.... I got confused when all of the people at school would have peanut butter and jelly. My parents aren't even related to british people, but they were always raised that way, too.

but... why would you call it sugar? Sugar is something entirely different!

the lack of fruity chunks essentially makes it into a thick fluidy sweet paste.

Which is why Jelly make sense. Because its like Jell-O. But with less O and more Eee

and sugar is not a "thick fluidy sweet paste"

That's called syrup.

And if you are referring to natural syrup, that is sugar. Basically just sugar. Gooood stuff...

BACK ON TOPIC.

I blame Jellygnomes.

Actually, they're dwarves.

Jelly is called jelly because of the gelatin in it that makes it not a "thick sweet fluidy paste." Greenboy was right in relating it to Jell-o because its the same substance that binds jell-o together, but in greater quantity. the difference between Jell-o and Jelly does not end there though. jelly is made with natural fruit juices, whereas Jell-o uses primarily artificial flavouring.

jam and jelly have the same consistancy, and ar made of the same things, Fruit juice, Sugar and Gelatin, but jam has bits of that fruit in with it.

is that so hard to comprehend?