to think that putting jelly in trifle is a very common thing to do?

[DameHermione]

Trifle,when made properly does not have jelly.

Cake, some sort of juice, whether sherry or juice or liqure, fruit, custard and cream.

No jelly.

It is such a disappointment to dig in and discover a layer of insipid eobbliness.

AIBU to suggest real trifle has no jelly and to add it smacks of the lower classes?

Fuck the spelling. Am on fancyphone

smacks OP

i like jelly!!

guess i is common!

Jelly is ace. In any way, shape or form. But then, I'm a bit common.

You're 'avin a larf ain't ya?

I have always made trifle with jelly....oh...makes me one of the lower class. Sorry!

No class issue surely?
But jelly in a trifle is many kinds of wrong

YABU for goodness sake stop being so judgmental. You know what, from now on I'm going to make a point of putting jelly in my trifle. I've never made trifle in my life but I shall now make it at every public opportunity full of wobbly wibbly jelly.

Good lord smacks of lower classess indeed. Who cares?

it's a fucking pudding. it doesn't matter

Well I'm sticking to my common trifle.

Never heard of a jellyless trifle

i loathe jelly and am totally with the OP

oh and originally it had no fruit in it either and it had either no cream, or a syllabub on top

so yabu for being wrong

Garlic in trifle is wrong.

trifle is fucking rank, jelly or not

I've taken to inspecting my pudding closely to ascertain whether jelly is involved before i eat it. I find it avoids upset

Lower classes? Nice

ooh and apparently in 1861

"Oliver Wendell Holmes, American author, waxed positively poetic about the dessert, calling it:

"That most wonderful object of domestic art called trifle?with its charming confusion of cream and cake and almonds and jam and jelly and wine and cinnamon and froth."

Jelly is awesome in or out of trifles

as long as there is no sherry in it, all trifle is great

Weddellway Sun 22-Apr-12 21:05:18

Garlic in trifle is wrong

This is indubitably true but have a for the funniest post of the day!

I hate jelly but agree it is essential in trifle.

My mum would reckon trifle itself is 'common'. She wouldn't say it, you understand, you'd just be expected to know from the subtle sneer and raised eyebrow.

Personally, I like to have a choice - one with jelly, one without. Then everyone is happy. After all, judging other people for slightly barking arbitrary things is quite common, isn't it?

I don't put jelly in my trifle but it's because OH is a vegetarian and veggie jelly is shit for trifle making.

I use some kind of cake, some kind of juice or booze, sometimes fruit, custard, cream and chocolate or sprinkles.

The american would have referred to the jam element as jelly.

Therefore the addition of jelly is wrong. And common.

I mean look at a box of birds trifle ffs. So far away from real trifle.....

Btw, thisis, that is a fantastic quotation!

The jelly is the only bit I like...