This stuff appeared overnight outside my house in East London. It largely disappeared in heavy rain. This morning more appeared.

What is this stuff? Star Jelly? Weird Fungi? A strange silicone growing from the floor? A natural bubble tea spring? Is this where those delicious Mogu Mogu drinks come from?

Any help figuring this mystery out would be super appreciated. Im trying my best to avoid standing in it.

I may clean it up using a drinking straw then bleach the tiles to see if that kills it.

by Camera_Monkee

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  6. Kind of looks like the stuff inside nappies

    Editing for clarity: you know what I mean. This is clearly not a baby.

  7. Seems like a slime mold, especially since it washed away

  8. Burglars use it as a secret sign to other burglars that the house is full of ectoplasm and thus avoid. On the one hand this is good news, on the other stay away from the TV static Carol-Anne

  11. You can buy “fake snow” online that kids are meant to be able to play with and it looks exactly like this. It’s a slippery plasticy thing and is also definitely what the inside of nappies are made of.

  13. I don’t know but it gave Captain Kirk a lot of trouble in an early *Star Trek*

  15. At first I got very excited thinking you’d been blessed with a natural marmalade spring due to some weird localised fracture in the tectonic plates, but alas, picture three dashed my hopes for you.

    Probably just a regular wallpaper paste spring, no money in them I’m afraid.

  22. > I may clean it up using a drinking straw

    Please say you don’t do what I think I just thought.

  23. Eat it you fucking coward!

    In all seriousness does it appear organic or chemical?

  26. That’s pretty funny because we have something similar in our back garden. In our case it’s from the insides of ice packs we got with a food delivery and didn’t know what to do with them, didn’t want to pour it down the sink in case it blocked the drain so we threw it out in the garden but it’s taking its sweet time to go away.

  34. I don’t know about your goop, but start jelly in general is often the tactical chunder of a predator who has eaten a frog.

  39. I vaguely remember this stuff causing a bit of a commotion about 15 years ago. It was appearing in fields all over the place, people thought it was alien ‘goo’.

  40. Star jelly or a type of slime mold maybe? Usually only see star jelly in grassland though.

  44. Looks like some water crystals that have rehydrated. You get them to mix with compost so the plants don’t need watering as much. It looks like clear jelly when its rehydrated. You don’t need much for it to swell right up.

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