Janner Jam

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Gourmet Strawberry Jam packed with juicy sweet strawberries, made locally by hand in small batches. Lovely local souvenir gift or indulgent treat for yourself. £3. 95 227g . . . . sweet!

Created as a 'local food' product named after the locals and representative of the culture and history of England's world famous 'Cream Tea'!

Definitions and History of: -

Janner:

Janner is a British regional nickname associated with people from Plymouth or people who live in areas near the sea, both as a noun and as an adjective for the local accent and colloquialisms. Cyril Tawney's Grey Funnel Lines describes its meaning as "a person from Devon", deriving from Cousin Jan (the Devon form of John), but "more particularly in naval circles anyone from the Plymouth area". [1]

A version of an Oggie Song from Devonport c. 1951 runs as follows:

'Alf a pound of flour and lard, Makes a lovely clacker, Just enough for you and me, Oh Brother Janner, Oh 'ow 'appy uz shall be! , When uz gets to the Westcountry! , Whur the oggies grows on trees, Oh Brother Janner

With the changes in the local economy in Plymouth over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, from the Royal Navy being the major employer to being a university city housing a large number of students from outside the city, the term has developed an additional secondary pejorative sense describing the locals.

Some people nonetheless still have doubts about the specific application and treat Janner as a term that applies to all waterside 'yokels' from any West Country or even south coast port.

It features in the football team Plymouth Argyle supporters' chants, particularly its variant on the folksong Oggy Land. [2] For many years there was a cartoon in the Plymouth Evening Herald entitled 'The Janners'. (Wikipedia, 2011)



Cream Tea: noun
British; a meal taken in the afternoon consisting of tea to drink with scones, jam, and cream. (Oxford Dictionary, 2011)

A cream tea, Devonshire tea, Devon cream tea or Cornish cream tea is tea taken with a combination of scones, clotted cream, and jam.

Cream teas are offered for sale in tea rooms throughout Great Britain (especially South West England) and the rest of the Commonwealth, or wherever someone wants to give an impression of British influence.

The name "Devonshire tea" comes from the county of Devon in England, where it is a local speciality. The exact origin of "cream tea" is disputed, although there is evidence to suggest that the tradition of eating bread with cream and jam already existed at Tavistock Abbey in Devon in the 11th century. (Wikipedia, 2011)


Refs:

Wikipedia, 2011 - http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki /Janner

Wikipedia, 2011 - http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki /Cream_tea

Oxford Dictionary, 2011 - http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition /cream + tea