Terrel wrote:

> I made my first-ever jelly roll yesterday. It went so smoothly that I
> was surprised. I turned out the baked cake onto a towel dusted with
> confectioners sugar. I rolled up the cake in the towel and let it cool
> a bit. I unrolled it with no problem. I spread the filling on the cake
> and rolled the cake back up again with no problem. The cake didn't
> break, split or crack.
>
> But after I finished rolling up the cake with the filling inside, I
> realized that I had rolled the cake from the long end instead of the
> short end. Instead of a lovely jelly roll, I had what turned out to be
> a thin cake rolled about once or one-and-a-half times around a big
> glop of filling.
>
> It tasted okay, but it tasted more like a jelly-filled doughnut than a
> jelly roll.
>
> I guess I'll just have to try again, and this time remember to roll it
> from the short end.

Hurry up and eat the evidence so no one will know.

Oh, wait. You just told everybody...

Pastorio

Bob (this one) wrote:
> Terrel wrote:
>
>> I made my first-ever jelly roll yesterday. It went so smoothly that I
>> was surprised. I turned out the baked cake onto a towel dusted with
>> confectioners sugar. I rolled up the cake in the towel and let it cool
>> a bit. I unrolled it with no problem. I spread the filling on the cake
>> and rolled the cake back up again with no problem. The cake didn't
>> break, split or crack.
>>
>> But after I finished rolling up the cake with the filling inside, I
>> realized that I had rolled the cake from the long end instead of the
>> short end. Instead of a lovely jelly roll, I had what turned out to be
>> a thin cake rolled about once or one-and-a-half times around a big
>> glop of filling.
>>
>> It tasted okay, but it tasted more like a jelly-filled doughnut than a
>> jelly roll.
>>
>> I guess I'll just have to try again, and this time remember to roll it
>> from the short end.
>
>
> Hurry up and eat the evidence so no one will know.
>
> Oh, wait. You just told everybody...
>
> Pastorio
>


I thought "jelly roll" was a sexual euphemism. You mean there actually
is a *cake* called a jelly roll?

Waiting for the clever replies, ;-)
Bob

Yes, and the cake preceded the euphemism. The cake is called a "Swiss
roll" outside of American English, but "I ain't gonna give nobody none
of my Swiss roll" wouldn't have been a hit.

--
Chris Green

On 3 Jan 2005 12:04:06 -0800, "Christopher Green"
> wrote:

>Yes, and the cake preceded the euphemism. The cake is called a "Swiss
>roll" outside of American English, but "I ain't gonna give nobody none
>of my Swiss roll" wouldn't have been a hit.

And Swiss Roll Morton would never have played the blues...

In article >, Jed
> wrote:

> On 3 Jan 2005 12:04:06 -0800, "Christopher Green"
> > wrote:
>
> >Yes, and the cake preceded the euphemism. The cake is called a "Swiss
> >roll" outside of American English, but "I ain't gonna give nobody none
> >of my Swiss roll" wouldn't have been a hit.
>
> And Swiss Roll Morton would never have played the blues...
>

ROFL!!! Thank you, Sir.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 11-29-04; Sam I Am!
birthday telling; Thanksgiving 2004; Fanfare, Maestro, please.
"Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer
Mimi Sheraton

In article >, zxcvbob
> wrote:

> I thought "jelly roll" was a sexual euphemism. You mean there actually
> is a *cake* called a jelly roll?
>
> Waiting for the clever replies, ;-)
> Bob

It must be jelly 'cuz jam don't shake like that?

I only know it as a cake roll with a filling -- in 1989 and 1990 and
1991 I won ribbons at the Fair for mine. :-) Two seconds and a fourth.
Sponge cake with a jelly filling. Not bad if you like that kind of
thing.

Sexual euphemism? For what -- or shouldn't I ask?
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 11-29-04; Sam I Am!
birthday telling; Thanksgiving 2004; Fanfare, Maestro, please.
"Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer
Mimi Sheraton

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article >, zxcvbob
> > wrote:
>
>>I thought "jelly roll" was a sexual euphemism. You mean there actually
>>is a *cake* called a jelly roll?
>>
>>Waiting for the clever replies, ;-)
>>Bob
>
> It must be jelly 'cuz jam don't shake like that?
>
> I only know it as a cake roll with a filling -- in 1989 and 1990 and
> 1991 I won ribbons at the Fair for mine. :-) Two seconds and a fourth.
> Sponge cake with a jelly filling. Not bad if you like that kind of
> thing.
>
> Sexual euphemism? For what -- or shouldn't I ask?

As I heard Josh White explain it to a wide-eyed Wellesley student
about 40 years ago, "You settin' on it."

Pastorio

In article >, "Bob (this one)"
> wrote:

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> > In article >, zxcvbob
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>I thought "jelly roll" was a sexual euphemism. You mean there
> >>actually is a *cake* called a jelly roll?
(snip)
> > Sexual euphemism? For what -- or shouldn't I ask?
>
> As I heard Josh White explain it to a wide-eyed Wellesley student
> about 40 years ago, "You settin' on it."
> Pastorio

Allrightythen. I think I'm getting the picture.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> More on 1-4-05 - Swiss Steak.
"Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer
Mimi Sheraton

The term abounds in early to mid20th century jazz and blues music.

Many ladies sang of baking the finest in town, while a few sang of
reserving
it for a particular beau or, more rarely, maintaining it intact.

In article .com>,
"Zywicki" > wrote:

> The term abounds in early to mid20th century jazz and blues music.
>
> Many ladies sang of baking the finest in town, while a few sang of
> reserving it for a particular beau or, more rarely, maintaining it
> intact.

I guess I shouldn't have asked. Nobody believes me when I tell them I'm
an innocent.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> More on 1-4-05 - Swiss Steak.
"Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer
Mimi Sheraton

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article .com>,
> "Zywicki" > wrote:
>
>
>>The term abounds in early to mid20th century jazz and blues music.
>>
>>Many ladies sang of baking the finest in town, while a few sang of
>>reserving it for a particular beau or, more rarely, maintaining it
>>intact.
>
>
> I guess I shouldn't have asked. Nobody believes me when I tell them I'm
> an innocent.

Reminds me of my father's memories of dates down
at the waterfront where he claimed they were
"watching the submarine races", LOL.
I was soooooooooo gullible...I kept wondering how
they saw them at night?? )
Goomba

One time on Usenet, Melba's Jammin' > said:
> In article .com>,
> "Zywicki" > wrote:
>
> > The term abounds in early to mid20th century jazz and blues music.
> >
> > Many ladies sang of baking the finest in town, while a few sang of
> > reserving it for a particular beau or, more rarely, maintaining it
> > intact.
>
> I guess I shouldn't have asked.

I'm glad you did -- I'd never heard that one before either.

> Nobody believes me when I tell them I'm an innocent.

I'm not touching that comment... :-)


--
J.J. in WA ~ mom, vid gamer, novice cook ~
"I rule you!" - Travis of the Cosmos, ATHF

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article .com>,
> "Zywicki" > wrote:
>
>
>>The term abounds in early to mid20th century jazz and blues music.
>>
>>Many ladies sang of baking the finest in town, while a few sang of
>>reserving it for a particular beau or, more rarely, maintaining it
>>intact.
>
>
> I guess I shouldn't have asked. Nobody believes me when I tell them I'm
> an innocent.

Reminds me of my father's memories of dates down
at the waterfront where he claimed they were
"watching the submarine races", LOL.
I was soooooooooo gullible...I kept wondering how
they saw them at night?? )
Goomba

One time on Usenet, Melba's Jammin' > said:
> In article .com>,
> "Zywicki" > wrote:
>
> > The term abounds in early to mid20th century jazz and blues music.
> >
> > Many ladies sang of baking the finest in town, while a few sang of
> > reserving it for a particular beau or, more rarely, maintaining it
> > intact.
>
> I guess I shouldn't have asked.

I'm glad you did -- I'd never heard that one before either.

> Nobody believes me when I tell them I'm an innocent.

I'm not touching that comment... :-)


--
J.J. in WA ~ mom, vid gamer, novice cook ~
"I rule you!" - Travis of the Cosmos, ATHF

In article .com>,
"Zywicki" > wrote:

> The term abounds in early to mid20th century jazz and blues music.
>
> Many ladies sang of baking the finest in town, while a few sang of
> reserving it for a particular beau or, more rarely, maintaining it
> intact.

I guess I shouldn't have asked. Nobody believes me when I tell them I'm
an innocent.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> More on 1-4-05 - Swiss Steak.
"Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer
Mimi Sheraton

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article >, zxcvbob
> > wrote:
>
>>I thought "jelly roll" was a sexual euphemism. You mean there actually
>>is a *cake* called a jelly roll?
>>
>>Waiting for the clever replies, ;-)
>>Bob
>
> It must be jelly 'cuz jam don't shake like that?
>
> I only know it as a cake roll with a filling -- in 1989 and 1990 and
> 1991 I won ribbons at the Fair for mine. :-) Two seconds and a fourth.
> Sponge cake with a jelly filling. Not bad if you like that kind of
> thing.
>
> Sexual euphemism? For what -- or shouldn't I ask?

As I heard Josh White explain it to a wide-eyed Wellesley student
about 40 years ago, "You settin' on it."

Pastorio

The term abounds in early to mid20th century jazz and blues music.

Many ladies sang of baking the finest in town, while a few sang of
reserving
it for a particular beau or, more rarely, maintaining it intact.

Yes, and the cake preceded the euphemism. The cake is called a "Swiss
roll" outside of American English, but "I ain't gonna give nobody none
of my Swiss roll" wouldn't have been a hit.

--
Chris Green

In article >, zxcvbob
> wrote:

> I thought "jelly roll" was a sexual euphemism. You mean there actually
> is a *cake* called a jelly roll?
>
> Waiting for the clever replies, ;-)
> Bob

It must be jelly 'cuz jam don't shake like that?

I only know it as a cake roll with a filling -- in 1989 and 1990 and
1991 I won ribbons at the Fair for mine. :-) Two seconds and a fourth.
Sponge cake with a jelly filling. Not bad if you like that kind of
thing.

Sexual euphemism? For what -- or shouldn't I ask?
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 11-29-04; Sam I Am!
birthday telling; Thanksgiving 2004; Fanfare, Maestro, please.
"Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer
Mimi Sheraton

"Terrel" wrote:

<jelly roll blues snipped>

> It tasted okay, but it tasted more like a jelly-filled doughnut than a
> jelly roll.
>
> I guess I'll just have to try again, and this time remember to roll it
> from the short end.

Hey, congratulations! It's plenty hard enough to roll one successfully from
the short end. Do don't seem to appreciate what you've accomplished!

Bob (this one) wrote:
> Terrel wrote:
>
>> I made my first-ever jelly roll yesterday. It went so smoothly that I
>> was surprised. I turned out the baked cake onto a towel dusted with
>> confectioners sugar. I rolled up the cake in the towel and let it cool
>> a bit. I unrolled it with no problem. I spread the filling on the cake
>> and rolled the cake back up again with no problem. The cake didn't
>> break, split or crack.
>>
>> But after I finished rolling up the cake with the filling inside, I
>> realized that I had rolled the cake from the long end instead of the
>> short end. Instead of a lovely jelly roll, I had what turned out to be
>> a thin cake rolled about once or one-and-a-half times around a big
>> glop of filling.
>>
>> It tasted okay, but it tasted more like a jelly-filled doughnut than a
>> jelly roll.
>>
>> I guess I'll just have to try again, and this time remember to roll it
>> from the short end.
>
>
> Hurry up and eat the evidence so no one will know.
>
> Oh, wait. You just told everybody...
>
> Pastorio
>


I thought "jelly roll" was a sexual euphemism. You mean there actually
is a *cake* called a jelly roll?

Waiting for the clever replies, ;-)
Bob

"Terrel" wrote:

<jelly roll blues snipped>

> It tasted okay, but it tasted more like a jelly-filled doughnut than a
> jelly roll.
>
> I guess I'll just have to try again, and this time remember to roll it
> from the short end.

Hey, congratulations! It's plenty hard enough to roll one successfully from
the short end. Do don't seem to appreciate what you've accomplished!

Terrel wrote:

> I made my first-ever jelly roll yesterday. It went so smoothly that I
> was surprised. I turned out the baked cake onto a towel dusted with
> confectioners sugar. I rolled up the cake in the towel and let it cool
> a bit. I unrolled it with no problem. I spread the filling on the cake
> and rolled the cake back up again with no problem. The cake didn't
> break, split or crack.
>
> But after I finished rolling up the cake with the filling inside, I
> realized that I had rolled the cake from the long end instead of the
> short end. Instead of a lovely jelly roll, I had what turned out to be
> a thin cake rolled about once or one-and-a-half times around a big
> glop of filling.
>
> It tasted okay, but it tasted more like a jelly-filled doughnut than a
> jelly roll.
>
> I guess I'll just have to try again, and this time remember to roll it
> from the short end.

Hurry up and eat the evidence so no one will know.

Oh, wait. You just told everybody...

Pastorio