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.
Jelly sandwiches are way better without this horrible sticky peanut butter.
Peanut butter is horrifyingly dry on its own.
most people aren’t american, luckily
I like to put a sliced banana. Offsets the dryness of plain peanut butter, and adds a bit of sweetness.
Too dry without jelly/jam
With a glass of milk, it’s great.
Lots of butter helps to lube it up.
According to everyone here, the sandwich you’re supposed to make is:
Peanut butter, butter, honey, banana, pickles (cucumbers if you’re impatient), cayenne pepper, and lastly, if you’re a Vincent, jam or preserves.
Toasting optional
I was with you up to the toasted part.
Let me introduce you guys to the most glorious topping for peanut butter bread:
FUCKING CUCUMBER
It ads freshness, moisture, texture, crunch and the flavor actually combines well. First time I heard it I thought it was crazy but just try it once and you’re sold.
You’re just pushing a gateway drug to peanut butter and pickle sandwiches
All addiction starts somewhere.
That episode baffles and infuriates me. Does the Federation really not have a law against genocide?!
I tried peanut butter and jam because I always heard it being talked about in American movies (am European). It was a waste of both imo. Peanut butter and chocolate sprinkles is the way to go if you must add something to peanut butter. Jam is best on its own.
I would not go that far but certainly I would take just peanut butter over just jelly. As far as not needing help sure but it can still get better. In comes. The banana!
Adding Jelly to a Peanutbutter Sandwich makes it a PB&J. If someone asked me if I wanted a Peanutbutter Sandwich and I said yes, and then they instead brought me a PB&J, I’d be annoyed.
I acknowledge this probably could have been worded better, but I’m gonna take bong rips rather than fix it 😤
Better unpopular opinion: US-style peanut butter is disgusting. It is sweetened and has an off-putting structure. European style peanut butter is way better.
More popular opinion: the best topping for peanut butter is sambal, which is an Indonesian style chilli paste
You understand we have real PB in the states, too, right? The fact that you chose to buy crap in the states does not reflect poorly on us. The PB I buy is not sweetened.
That would be like me going to Vietnam, trying pho with tripe, and concluding that all pho in Vietnam has tripe.
You have even more real PB in the states because it’s protected and must contain at least 90% peanuts, this is not the case in the EU.
Came here to say I put a ton of cayenne pepper on mine. Guess I’ll try sambal and Tabasco too
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.
But also I think hot toast with peanut butter on its own works very well.
The main issue with peanut butter is the stickiness, and the smacky mouth you get, but if it’s the right temperature it will be more runny and soak into the toast.
Jelly is for children.
Use jam instead. Organic (no HFCS) strawberry is my go-to.
Or preserves. I prefer strawberry with peanutbutter myself, but if I’m just spreading preserves or jam on a pastry, I like peach.
