Don’t get me wrong, if you have a good jam or preserves it’s totally fine on a sandwich, and I wouldn’t turn my nose up at it. However, peanut butter doesn’t really need the help, and the extra sweetness from jelly is totally unnecessary. Toasted bread and peanut butter is all you need for a quality simple sandwich.
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I agree, but I’d add butter.
This is because I got used to butter on all of my sandwiches, because my mom made them that way. The reasoning was the butter prevented the other wet stuff from soaking through the bread, and that works.
Butter on sandwiches isn’t something I grew up with, but I can appreciate the logic behind its use. I’ve tried it a few times and am generally neutral on it. It is in essence—on a sandwich infrastructure level—mayonnaise with a different flavor profile.
I’d expect peanut butter to be a better moisture barrier than either butter or mayo however.
When I grew up, bread with butter already passed as a simple sandwich. Pbj is disgusting to me, while bread, butter and jam (or honey) is good as an open faced sandwich.
The flavor of butter can be the star of a sandwich, a baguette jambon beurre in france is fantastic.Finding the PB+J flavor combo startling, if not downright offputting is pretty common outside the U.S. it seems. Like many things food-related, preferences are strongly cultural.
PB+J is one of the few savory/sweet combinations in widespread use in American cooking (although I suppose it pops up fairly often in various breakfast combos). Others exist, but this is by far the most common. I myself don’t generally like that combination outside of PB&J, and I almost certainly enjoy it mostly because I grew up with it.
Too dry without jelly/jam
Lots of butter helps to lube it up.
With a glass of milk, it’s great.
You are absolutely correct if that is what you prefer.
You are incorrect for me however, as I generally prefer mine with a little raspberry jam to shake up the flavor profile. Plain is good too however.
Can’t say I’ve ever gotten worked up over someone’s food preference.
That episode baffles and infuriates me. Does the Federation really not have a law against genocide?!
And cheddar cheese and strawberry jam sandwich is better than just the cheese sandwich by itself. I learned this years too late.
Yes, toasted bread so that the PB gets slightly melted when spread!
The superior sandwich: peanut butter, cucumber and sambal (Indonesian chilli onion sauce)
Sambal is superior with everything
Are you talking about just-peanuts peanut butter, or the sugary Kraft style peanut butter?
Just peanuts, I find the sugary peanut butter to be kinda inedible.
I like peanut butter with a bit of agave. Something I think might differ between you and the people objecting to this is the type of peanut butter used. “Natural” peanut butter where you have to mix the peanut butter is better for plain sandwiches because the oil makes it less gunky imo.
Upvoted for strong disagreement. If I had to drop an ingredient it would be the peanut butter (leaving out the bread would be too messy)
I strongly disagree. You can’t drop the peanut butter.
But I also agree that you can’t drop the jam.
There are better ways to enjoy plain peanut butter than in bread. Like straight out the jar.
I’d say toast with jelly is definitely a breakfast staple, though.
I’d agree that people always put too much jelly, I like a thin layer of jam/jelly opposed to globs of it, but peanut butter sandwich by itself is just too dry & chewy.
When there’s a pre-made PBJ spread available, I carefully scoop out the jelly to avoid getting peanut butter as mush as possible.
Peanut butter and honey ftw
That was the only way my kids would have them.
I was raised on PB&H.
It was cheaper getting the comby stuff right from the apiarist, so while it fit our budget back then it was a little comby. And the bread was homemade, as dad would make like 72 loaves in the kitchen and barter most of them away (1983 financial crunch).
Yep. Homemade bread, organic honey, kraft PB. Smooth, ya bloody heathens.
Add sliced bananas for some extra crunch (and sweetness)
Rueben that for an elvis special.
I actually agree with you, but people used to call me nuts (heh)
