I like peanut butter, I really do, especially the smoooooth kind.
So I thought I’d try it with some jam on, strawberry at first then one some with raspberry. I had just one bite out of each.
:eek: It’s bloody disgusting, how you Americans can eat it like that beggars belief.
Nope from now on it’s peanut butter sans jam but avec salt thank you very much.
Fruit and Nuts are a splendid combination in my book.
Indeed they are but not spread on bread :dubious:
Oh well, I suppose all those millions of people that like the combination must just be wrong… or stupid… or something. Seriously, Chowder, what the freck are you on about?
Peanut butter and jam is just fine, although peanut butter and honey is better, IMO, and better still is peanut butter and chocolate spread.
You dare to mock the almighty PB&J!?!?!
OG…
er, probably isn’t all that worked up about it.
Carry on…
Peanut butter, honey and sliced banana is the go except here in Australia where, due to the earlier tropical cyclone, a banana cost about $2.50 instead of 50 cents.
Peanut butter and jelly (or jam) is one of the first treats I ever had. I started on Indian food, and love indian food, and even in American food have fairly cultured tastes these days…but nothing, nothing, is so simply satisfying as a good old PB&J sammich with the crusts cut off.
That’s it. Bombing of England shall commence in twenty minutes.
FWIW, PB&J is mostly for kids, who tend to like sweeter things. When adults eat it, it’s usually for nostalgia*. I can’t even remember the last time I had PB&J - I usually have just toast or bread with my PB, or with an apple. Or celery! Delicious.
*Yes, I know some adults still like their PB&J.
Would you please define “beggars belief?” I couldn’t find a satisfactory definition on the web and I’d like to understand exactly how disgusting I am that I like pb&j.
I don’t agree! Smooth peanut butter and blackcurrant jam is. just. to. die. for!
Peanut butter, strawberry jam and hot chilli sauce is nice; trust me on this.
I still eat them to get a mix of fruit, carbs and protein. But I have graduated to Polaner All-fruit and multi-grain bread instead of store brand grape jelly and white bread.
This is the British equivalent of “beyond belief” or “unbelievable”.
As a proud Englishman who is partial to a nice PB&J, let me tell you that the way we Brits attempt to make the aforementioned sandwich can lead to bitter disappointment in the manner of the OP. I’ve had crappy British peanut butter spread on stale buttered bread, with a tiny thin layer of the Wrong Sort of Jam scraped on the top. Wrong. Here’s how to “get” it:
The bread must be thick, soft and white.
The peanut butter must be sweet and creamy American style (pref. Jif, Peter Pan or Skippy), spread really thick - half-a-centimetre deep. I prefer super-crunchy
The “jam” should be grape jelly (pref. Smuckers), spread to the same depth.
NO BUTTER OR MARGARINE.
Slap another piece of soft white bread on top, bite down, and enter pure bliss.
Personally I’d rather eat the bomb. Savoury and sweet should not be mixed! I couldn’t cope with the syrup and bacon combination when I was in San Francisco wither Blechhhh!
Do you avoid Thai, Chinese and Indian cuisines too then?
Thanks for clarifying, I sort of had that impression but I wasn’t sure what beggars had to do with it. But I guess it’s akin to beggars can’t be choosers?
I avoid Korma’s if that’s what you mean!
Well, there’s a lot more sweet/savoury than the mere korma: your pasanders, your kashmiris, anything with black bean/oyster/plum sauce, then there’s your panang curry, massaman, red curry, satay, and of course all the Malaysian and Indonesian delights too. Plus mint jelly on lamb, branston pickle and cheese, redcurrant jelly on poultry, caramelised onions with anything, balsamic vinegar, ketchup on anything, Worcestershire sauce, HP, etc. etc.
I think it’s a false distinction you’re making.