Nailing jelly to a wall.

By Miss Cellania in Science & Tech on Feb 3, 2007 at 7:43 am

Youâ€™ve heard the phrase â€œlike nailing jelly to the wallâ€ to describe a difficult task. Graeme Cole decided to find out exactly how difficult it was to nail jelly (or Jello for Americans) to a wall. He chronicled his experiment step-by-step with pictures. Link -via the Presurfer

Update 2/8/07: MyScienceProject has more about nailing jell-o:

Our further investigation into this area leads us to state the following: Jell-O can be effectively nailed to a wall if you increase its density by reducing the proportion of water to gelatin in the recipe, or fortify it by adding more gelatin powder.

Link – Thanks ebez1

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Zach
Feb 3rd, 2007 at 10:41 am
Dear Brit,

I know it is the Queen’s English and all, but how do you know this phrase isn’t of American origins? If it is, well… Jelly is *jelly* here, not Jell-O(R). Maybe you call it jam? Whatever. The point is, it’d be nigh impossible to nail it to a wall… far more difficult than the relatively solid in comparison Jell-O(R).
Miss Cellania
Feb 3rd, 2007 at 10:54 am
Since you mentioned it, I looked it up. It IS American in origin! http://www.macmillandictionary.com/MED-Magazine/july2003/09-new-word-n ail-jelly.htm

I worded it that way because it was mentioned at the website, to explain exactly what he was using in this experiment.

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