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.
Wow, a rare, actually unpopular opinion.
You should try peanut butter and honey.
Too dry without jelly/jam
With a glass of milk, it’s great.
Lots of butter helps to lube it up.
That episode baffles and infuriates me. Does the Federation really not have a law against genocide?!
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.
Peanut butter is horrifyingly dry on its own.
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 😤
Peanut butter and honey ftw
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.
That was the only way my kids would have them.
Add sliced bananas for some extra crunch (and sweetness)
Rueben that for an elvis special.
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Sambal is superior with everything
I like to put a sliced banana. Offsets the dryness of plain peanut butter, and adds a bit of sweetness.
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
I like pickles more then jelly
Umm… I am unsure how to proceed. Out of pure curiosity, I want to try a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. However, the portion of my mind that is closed does not want to try that.
What do I do?
It’s actually really, really good. I tried it recently. It’s very reminiscent of Thai dishes to me that use peanuts, weirdly enough.
I put peanut butter on both sides and pickles in the middle. Works best with spicy pickles, IMO.
It’s a tasty sweet and savory sandwich.
Try it. I love it but its not for everyone.
I swear if you trolling me it’s a good one.
I’ll try it tomorrow. Toasted or not?
Me? untoasted. I’m not trolling both me and my partner love it.
But have you ever made a peanut butter and jelly burrito? Just roll it up and sear the burrito on both sides. Makes the peanut butter and jelly nice and warm too.
I’ll give both a shot this weekend and report back!
Good post. This IS an unpopular opinion. I really want to downvote you because I disagree, but I want to upvote you because you clearly understood the assignment.
This IS an unpopular opinion.
Depends where you’re from though, peanut butter & jelly/jam isn’t really a thing here.
Interesting, it’s a classic where I grew up (Minnesota, USA). Where are you that it’s not a thing?
I’m from the Netherlands.
most people aren’t american, luckily
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.
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.
