Jelly roll

A jelly roll (known outside of the United States as Swiss roll) is a cylindrical cake containing jelly or jam. It is made by baking a long flat thin sponge cake, coating the surface with jam and sometimes cream, and rolling it up. It is usually served in circular slices. A Swiss roll made with a chocolate flavoured sponge and containing a chocolate fondant is sometimes called a chocolate log.

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Jelly - Jam - Sponge cake - Cream - Chocolate

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The term jelly roll is also sexual slang, used to indicate variously, a lover, intercourse, or the sexual parts. The expression appears in numerous jazz and blues songs, such as I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of This Jelly Roll by Clarence Williams (which was recorded by Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, and many other singers in the 1920s), and Billy Eckstine's powerful Jelly, Jelly, with the line "Jelly roll killed my pappy, and run my mother stone blind" from the 1940s. Van Morrison also included the term in numerous songs, such as "And It Stoned Me" and "He Ain't Give You None".

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Sexual slang - Jazz - Blues - Clarence Williams - Bessie Smith - Ida Cox - 1920s - Billy Eckstine - 1940s - Van Morrison

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