Here goes nothing
Edit: I didn’t like it :(
I don’t know if I ate wrong or what but this just tastes super weird. No idea why it’s so popular
Edit 2: I just remembered I loved peanuts dipped in honey as a kid. That’s kinda similar. I wonder why I didn’t like this then.
You gotta try peanut butter and cheddar cheese. It’s amazing
What kind of jelly? I use grape jam
Strawberry
Grape is the ideal
Raspberry!
gross… grape is best
PB&J is about the nostalgia too. You have to have started eating it as a kid. 😉
You know I actually really loved peanuts dipped in honey. Maybe I’ll eat that again.
Op I agree with you and I grew up eating them. The sweet and salty is ok, but the texture is just off to me. It’s two different “slimy” textures combining in soft bread without a supporting texture element, and it tends to make the bread soggy.
Tbh I hated them as a kid. Still prefer just peanut butter but now have issues with that being a trigger scent. Husband says pbj is better when the jelly is actually strawberry honey butter I’ve made. I’m sure it is, that stuff is tasty.
Crunchy or smooth?
There’s crunchy??
What exactly is crunching?With peanut chunks maybe?
Rodent bones.
Small pieces of peanuts.
Smooth
I always go with the crunch, I need some texture to contrast a little with the otherwise softness of the bite and I’m too lazy to wait three minutes for bread to toast
Honestly, peanut butter and honey is where it’s at.
And don’t just spread each one on your bread - mix them together on a plate and then spread the mixture on buttered bread.
I just spread it on the plate and lick it up.
peanut butter and slices of banana. 👍
I’m about 20 years older and have never eaten one.
Its better if you use fresh, coarse ground (not chunky) peanut butter with a little salt and honey in it. Our local grocery store had a grinder in the store where you can make your own. I also prefer to use preserves or jam, not jelly.
For bread, if you can get good fresh bread, its amazing, if not, lightly toasted (but not buttered) honey-wheat is my go to.
You can also make a fluffernutter by substituting the jelly/jam/preserves with marshmallow fluff. Use the good fluff stuff with the red lid though, not the generic stuff. It really does make a difference.
Another good one is peanut butter and banana slices with honey, or peanut butter and apple slices.
As a non American who has tried this and enjoyed it as a kid, I have to say the jam has to be grape to hit the spot. Where I live that’s an unusual one, I don’t usually see grape marmalade when grocery shopping, and the few times I tried to make a PB&J using other jam/marmalade I was very disappointed. Blackberry jam is probably the most passable one though, out of the easy to find flavors.
Did?
Deffo need a glass of milk with it
Interesting. Will try
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smooth peanut butter.
crunchy peanut butter is just a half job.
Those guys on city road crews leaning on shovels for three months? they like crunchy.
Nope. I probably should have researched yeah
Smooth peanut butter? I didn’t know we had heathens here on Lemmy. Crunchy or nothing.
Plus one for the crunchy crew!
plus two!
Yeah, the reality is, you aren’t gonna find pb&j on a restaurant menu anywhere. pb&j exists because it is a cheap and easy way to feed kids, and you really won’t understand the hype as an adult.
The only time I or other adults I know eat them is when we are doing something like going for a hike, when the shelf-stable nature of the ingredients and high caloric density are assets.
Also, for an authentic pb&j experience, you must make the sandwich in the morning, crush it with several books, and then eat it around 11am.
In Taiwan, we put peanut butter + honey on our burgers.
