What does it mean if you are asked if your cereal or jelly?

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It clearly can't mean what is literally said, that would be idiotic. Of course I am not a food substance.

Serious - Cereal
Jelly - Jealous

It's stupid. Don't do it yourself.

It's a brand new mutation of netspeak.

How is that an "or" question? The two states aren't related.

Maybe they were asked in two different situations.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the whole 'cereal' thing was started on South Park.
Jelly is just laziness.

I don't know, it sounds like a stupid question to me. My first thoughts were that they were asking you what you prefer, breakfast (cereal) or dessert (jelly). Typically I go with the pancakes with maple syrup for dessert. It has to be proper Canadian maple syrup, not the "maple flavored" crap.

I remember a kid's book I had when I was little that had a whole bunch of these with pictures, like "are you a sock or a shoe?" "are you a hammer or a nail?" etc. You're supposed to think of some of the essential features in your opinion of these items and then figure out which fits you better based on that.
So e.g. You might say you are jelly because you are "sweet" (i.e. it is sugary while you are nice) or you are cereal because you work better as part of a team (idk, it is better with milk?).

Are you rainwater or bottled water?

Gawd, I hate analogies (unless I make them up myself). Tell me, which type of water you are, and why you are that type of water and what existential meaning you get from answering such an inane question.

It reminds me of people who seem to think they're smart by asking, "how long is a piece of string?"

Well, do you want it in SI units, or imperial?

I would like to answer these types of questions by saying something like, "Sorry, I don't answer stupid questions".

But as that sort of answer would only serve to get the person's back up, I wouldn't give it and would then be stuck for an answer.

I had never heard this before.

I'm cereal as Al Gore said on South Park.

Oh, and if you'e up, can you cook me some black pudding (and white pudding, and baked beans, and egg, and sausage, and bacon, and potato bread) please? Thanks.

Are you Duluth or a penguin?

I kinda like the jelly one. It's fun to make up cool, slang-ish words for things! I'm kinda surprised I knew what both of those words meant when reading the thread title, so felt like I should post.