(Google says: "Did you mean jelly bisque?" No, and I don't want to think about a jelly soup with chunks of jelly in it, not even as a dessert.)
Jellybesque comes to us from Barbara Kay, as she smacks down a fellow grandmother. It refers to:
Charles Dickens’ ineffable creation, Mrs. Jellyby, in his novel, Bleak House. Mrs. Jellyby’s sentimental thoughts are always half a world away with the poor children in Africa, while her own dirty, neglected children must shift for themselves in her chaotic household.You know the kind. Sad movies make them cry -- but they themselves make their children cry. At the dinner table. At least once a week.
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