Brewer's: Real Jam

Prime stuff, a real treat, something delightful. Of course, the allusion is to jam given to children for a treat.

“There must have been a charming climate in Paradise, and [the] connubial bliss [there] ... was real jam.” —SamSlick: Human Nature.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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