Given the fluster over PB&J during the weather delay, what’s the proper amount of jelly?

[oldmanfan]

First you have to pick the right bread.  I’ll take white over wheat, but my favorite as a kid was having it on Kaufman’s rye bread.

 

Now as to PB/jelly ratio, I’ll do grape jelly but you really want jam, with any of the berries working for me.  With jam it should be about 40%.  If you are stuck with grape jelly go to 30%.  And if you try to sneak marmalade on there you’re thrown out of the kitchen.  One switch up that works as well is to put a layer of good honey on there  instead of jelly or jam.
 

The peanut butter.  I have always been a smooth PB guy, but a little crunchy is OK.  The extra crunchy never; if I want that I’ll open a can of Planter’s.  Put the PB on both sides of the bread.  Brand of PB doesn’t matter to me much.  
 

No other additions.  Bananas, I’m not Elvis.  

[Freddie's Dead]

FiddyFiddy, for me.

[BringMetheHeadofLeonLett]

3 hours ago, Mark Vader said:

What about Blackberry?

Definitely... and marionberry?

 

and are we talking by weight or by volume???

 

 

[Big Turk]

I mean it's gotta be enough to balance out the PB but not enough so that it drips out of the sandwich to create a potentially sticky mess...

 

But that all depends again on how much PB is going on...are we talking about a giant slab of PB on the sandwich or just enough to coat the bread?

Edited October 12, 2021 by Big Turk

[Rocky Landing]

2 hours ago, teef said:

as adults, are we really eating this much pb&j?  we have access to so many other sandwich options,  that pb&j shouldn't be a regular unless you're 5 or on food stamps.  

... or living' life!

[fasteddie]

1 hour ago, teef said:

it's as awful as it sounds.  i think it's 45 calories a slice, low carb, etc.   it's the equivalent of eating cardboard.  

That's the stuff my wife eats. I don't eat sandwiches too often since I retired. I got tired of eating sandwiches for lunch every day for 43 years. I have a loaf of white bread in the freezer in case of emergency. 

[billsbackto81]

 

Chunky PB /Raspberry jelly. This combo provides a really nice crunch.

 

30% PB/ 40% Jelly/ 30% PB

 

Lightly toasted thick white bread cut diagonally with bottom crust cut off.

 

Yummm....

Edited October 12, 2021 by billsbackto81

[wppete]

Almond butter? 🤮 

[billsbackto81]

Just now, wppete said:

Almond butter? 🤮 

It's actually not bad. Some people have allergies you know.

 

It's not for me though...

[North Buffalo]

Gotta have lots of choke and lots of slide for the best.

[MTBill]

5 hours ago, Patience said:

 

This, right here.  Also, almond butter?  GTFO.  It's not an AB&J.  

My son has a severe Peanut allergy.  He eats AB&J almost daily and would beg to differ.  I, however, would never eat one.    PB&J.

 

More importantly and not a question.  Blackberry jam.  and while the sandwich is called a Peanut Butter and Jelly - I can't stand Jelly.

[billsbackto81]

56 minutes ago, North Buffalo said:

Gotta have lots of choke and lots of slide for the best.

I know what your saying yet that doesn't seem to sound right when I read it aloud.😕

[Dopey]

Peanut butter and banana

50/50

[Patience]

1 hour ago, MTBill said:

My son has a severe Peanut allergy.  He eats AB&J almost daily and would beg to differ.  I, however, would never eat one.    PB&J.

 

More importantly and not a question.  Blackberry jam.  and while the sandwich is called a Peanut Butter and Jelly - I can't stand Jelly.

 

Have to agree with you on your last point - preserves all the way.  Need a little texture to balance out the smoothness of creamy peanut butter.  

 

Also, don't sleep on cashew butter.  It's no replacement for PB on a PB&J, but it's good in a pinch.  

Edited October 12, 2021 by Patience

[Mike in Horseheads]

I'm not touching this unless the bread is toasted. I had too many made when I was a kid with a parents hand print on them.

[Greatdane21]

Leave the crust on it curls your hair , just check Dawson Knox

[Buffalo Barbarian]

7 hours ago, BuffaloBill said:

Apparently, there was locker room debate over the proper amount of jelly. What do you have to say about this critical issue?

 

BTW if you have to have the crust cut off - leave this forum and turn in your Bills card immediately.

 

No crust is for babies

 

 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

But What About Nutella?  Shouldn't Nutella be in the convo?

 

It's jelly....kinda...jelly made of chocolate berries

[Greatdane21]

unanswered questions:
1) whose mother made the pbj’s

2) crunchy or smooth

3) jiff or Peter Pan or was it government pb ?

4) whole wheat or white or one of each

5 ) sliced straight across or diagonal 

6 ) how many were stached in lockers till after the game.

[Matt_In_NH]

75%pb.   /thread