The modern world record, then, is an entirely self-generated phenomenon: it exists only to be witnessed and recorded, and its specific content matters far less than its general status as a record - hence the growth of bizarre record attempts such as eating jelly with chopsticks against the clock, assembling giant stacks of poppadoms or building the world's largest chocolate igloo.
In the past some local people boiled up whole gibbons to turn them into a sort of 'gibbon jelly' for use as a traditional medicine, while others told Turvey that if you made chopsticks out of gibbon arm bones, they can tell you if your food is poisoned or not.
My legs seemed to alternate between jelly and lumps of lead and even though my lap times didn't differ too much it felt incredibly hard work.
He made up for it with a handful of good saves but Atlético were fortunate that the jelly-headed referee Muniz Fernández ignored what looked, from high in the stand, like a clear penalty.
The animals, known as Dendrogramma, consist mainly of an outer skin and inner stomach separated by a dense layer of jelly-like material.
Bullets slice brains like jelly, hats fly into the air, bayonets slodge into gizzards with that sickening sound.
That is a single giant Pacific oyster cut into bites, served with a slick plum-wine jelly with fresh green seaweed, laid out in its shell like a story.
The phrase "Oh look, The Hobbit's on" can momentarily distract a loved one from their Yuletide quest of waterboarding themselves with cranberry jelly and stuffing.
What actions did our esteemed grand high wizard jelly take on hearing about this?
Herbalists often stock royal jelly, made by bees, which is marketed for use in asthma, among other conditions.
By far the largest was HM Factory Gretna in southern Scotland, which produced cordite – a complex system involving nitric and sulphuric acids, nitroglycerine, gun cotton, mineral jelly, alcohol and ether.
