As time goes on new slang words stick and others fade. No longer does one hear phrases like “rad,” “the bomb” and “eat my shorts!” This generation of teenagers has invented with their own new slang words like “YOLO,” “ratchet” and “cray cray.” The natural development of slang is fine, it’s all for fun, right?

But some slang words can be obnoxious and unbearable. One slang phrase, if you will, that gets under my skin is the phrase, “I’m so jelly,” in place of “I’m so jealous.” Don’t get me wrong; this pet peeve sounds silly, but let’s think about this for a second. “I’m so jelly” implies that people are turning into condiments in front of our very eyes, a revolution of a new race: the living condiments.

Sounds scary right? People neither belong on sandwiches nor on English muffins because they are people, not jelly. Soon teenagers will be saying “That’s so mustardeous” when something puzzles them or “I’m mayonnaised that I got into Harvard” when something excites them.

Let’s stop this condiment takeover and just use more simple words. I don’t want to live with parents claiming they are the peanut butter to each other’s jelly, and I’m sure neither do you.