Peanut Butter and...
7You know we like to ask the hard-hitting, deeply philosophical questions here. So, when you’re assembling your sandwich how do you do it? Just peanut butter? Bananas? A particular jelly maybe? Are you one of those weird almond butter types? You butter enlighten us!
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@Supportathan Interesting, figured this would end up further down the list.
@Supportathan @Targaryen I just came to post this. Except wrong brand-
/image marshmallow Fluff
@sammydog01 @Supportathan As a New England native that is a familiar plastic tub.
@sammydog01 Also used to make my favorite fruit dip. Blend 8 oz fluff, 8 oz cream cheese, and add vanilla to taste. Yummmm
@Supportathan @Targaryen I am a child of the 60s and was a perfect marketing target. Fluffernutters- mmm. Mom thought they were disgusting. I had to beg. A lot.
@cinoclav That sounds really good except for the cream cheese part.
@sammydog01 It doesn’t taste like cream cheese at all. The fluff and vanilla provide the perfect sweetness while the cream cheese just gives it the right consistency.
@sammydog01 @Supportathan @Targaryen I grew up on PB and Fluff in MA. It gets my vote.
What’s jelly?
And fluff use to give away free cookbooks.
@mfladd I had one of those! It’s online now.
https://marshmallowfluff.com/online-yummy-book/
@sammydog01 @Supportathan @Targaryen My first wife grew up around Philly. I had never heard of a fluffernutter until I met her (I’m not even sure I was familiar with marshmallow fluff; we always just started with the miniature marshmallows for fudge and other recipes); she thought I was crazy/deprived/something. Not a bad combo.
I prefer my peanut butter paired with chocolate, in Reese’s Cup form:
@lichme came for this; leaving satisfied
@lichme and now, a day later, I would like to register my dissatisfaction — I’ve had the stupid song stuck in my head for an entire day and I think people are getting tired of me walking around work mumbling “peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat” to myself.
Usually grape jam, but sometimes honey. I like to throw the sandwich in the freezer to let it crystalize a bit. So good
@brandom Interesting concept- I need to try that.
@brandom it crystalizes? This sounds fascinating.
My dad used to eat PB & mayo sandwiches.
Yeah, I know, gross.
@rtjhnstn I dunno, I like mayo on things like fries and hot dogs. It’s not so outlandish.
@rtjhnstn My mother just told me about liking this the other day. I thought for sure she was alone in her…um…unusualness.
@pitamuffin @rtjhnstn - My father used to sometimes make me peanut butter and ONION sandwiches for lunch. They actually taste pretty good if you like it crunchy. Of course, you are not going to achieve much in the way of social acceptance.
That was before the internet, of course.
@aetris @pitamuffin @rtjhnstn
/youtube emmymadeinjapan peanut butter and mayo
She tries onion as well.
waffles
@cardiganb Peanut butter and waffles?
@cardiganb Eggo Waffles with Peanut Butter on top. It’s a top 10 breakfast.
@cardiganb Peanut butter, waffles and maple syrup (for me at least).
@cardiganb Actually, peanut butter, waffles with chocolate chips and maple syrup is even better.
@cardiganb Yes!! For breakfast, lunch or dinner. Or a snack.
@cardiganb I did peanut butter and honey on mine. Haven’t had this since going gluten free (celiac disease), but there are gluten-free waffles out there.
@christinewas Howdy stranger!
Chocolate
Fluff
Banana
Toast
Raspberry jam
@CaptAmehrican The kitchen sink sandwich.
@Targaryen not all at once.
@CaptAmehrican why not in combo, that actually sounds good.
Chunky peanut butter, grape jelly, stir together in a bowl till it’s purple peanut butter. Put it between two slices of Kroger cottage white bread from the store bakery. The best.
I’m less stringent about the chunky part these days.
@djslack What are your thoughts on those peanut butter and jelly in one jar hybrids?
@Targaryen like goober grape? Meh. I’m not really a fan. I don’t know if the jelly or the peanut butter is inferior but I didn’t like something in it that much. Plus the only control of the ratio of pb to j is how you scoop it, which affects the ratio of what’s left in the jar.
I think that’s great for kids but I want my pb &j like a grown man lol.
I eat peanut butter and jelly more days than I don’t, and have for decades.
I use Nature’s Own 100% Whole Wheat bread.
I use crunchy, natural peanut butter. I’m not particular about the brand, as long as the only ingredients are peanuts and salt, and I put it on thick.
I use a very small amount of whatever the cheapest grape jelly or jam is. Occasionally I switch things up by buying the cheapest strawberry jelly or jam. The jelly is way less important than the peanut butter or the bread.
And I always eat my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches jelly-side up. Sandwich orientation matters.
@Limewater If you haven’t had the chance you should try the fresh peanut butter they have at Whole Foods in those barrels. It is such an upgrade.
@Targaryen Whole Foods is across town from me. When I’m over there, though, I typically stop in and buy the 365 Everyday crunchy peanut butter by the case, though. You get a 10% discount when you buy a dozen.
It’s about the cheapest natural peanut butter I’ve encountered.
I grew up on creamy peanut butter and strawberry preserves on white or wheat bread. There was also at least one phase where there was chunky peanut butter. I acknowledge that chunky peanut butter and/or the strawberries in preserves makes sandwich integrity difficult, but the textural contrast was my favorite part.
As a college freshman I subsisted on Nutella on honey wheat sandwich bread (+ Easy Mac + the stir fry line at the cafeteria) but uh, that’s how I put on the Freshman 25 so I don’t keep Nutella at home anymore. When I lived with my parents as an adult they’d sometimes get Nutella and I’d do Nutella + bananas on toast, which is very tasty and also very dangerous.
At some point I need to actually try the Brandless blackberry spread I picked up with creamy peanut butter, but a full size bag of bread is too much for one person living alone who eats outside most of the time. …I should check if half size bags of sandwich bread exist, even if they’re not honey wheat.
@Kawa Yep. PB, Banana, Nutella. Preferably on an English muffin. And definitely not every day.
Peanut butter and butter (or margarine). Try it. You’ll be glad you did.
@medz That’s what I do too. People say yuck… until they try it. Always butter tho… I don’t buy margarine.
@lseeber @medz Haven’t done the direct butter/margarine thing, one time I experimented with buttering the outside of the bread and made a makeshift fried pb+j sandwich though. That wasn’t bad.
@medz @Targaryen Try it sometime. It’s good.
@medz
I totally get it
My go-to is peanut butter and honey, but with lots of butter on both sides.
@medz those were my absolute favorite as a kid. My mom always obliged and put one in my school lunches! Everyone thought I was weird (that never stopped)
Peanut butter and
Anything else is just window dressing.
@ruouttaurmind Yeah, this is also good. I mean I always feel a little bad while eating it this way but not bad enough to stop.
@Targaryen Never feel bad about peanut butter.
@ruouttaurmind @Targaryen Dude, you gotta go natty.
@Limewater There’s a few nats up there, but the texture is a bit like caulking, and doesn’t digest well. Oddly, the regular Jif is GMO-free while the Natural is not. Primarily the only difference between the ingredients of the two is the monoglyceride binding agent. Though I would imagine the regular Jif likely has a greater percentage of palm oils which would account for the smoother texture.
When my AC broke down a few weeks ago and temp in the house exceeded 90* the Jif Natural didn’t fare well. It seeped all the oils to the top of the jar while the regular Jif just got a bit soft. Once cooled back down, the regular stuff reconstituted just fine. The Natural stuff was a loss.
@ruouttaurmind Yeah, the Jif Natural’s not really the same “true” natural peanut butter.
You gotta try the stuff that’s just peanuts and salt. You have to stir it a lot when you open the jar, and then keep it in the refrigerator to keep it from separating back out.
It’s a bit more work, but it’s a world of difference.
@Limewater I have tried true natural peanut butter in the past. Frankly, I go through so much it can be a very expensive proposition. The difference between a buck a jar and $5 or $6 adds up quickly.
Side note: I discovered with true natural that when I mix in honey it seems to act as sort of a binding agent. Separation of oil seemed less pronounced.
@ruouttaurmind Yeah. I posted above that I get it when I happen to be near a Whole Foods. Their 365 non-organic store brand in the 36oz jars is surprisingly inexpensive. I’ve seen it under $4 a jar locally. Plus, if you buy twelve jars and you get a 10% discount for buying a whole case.
At that point, it’s quite comparable to buying “normal” peanut butter at your regular grocery store.
@Limewater Sprouts Market has a store brand for about $3/jar (16oz). I’ve tried it a couple times, but it’s pretty dull on flavor. Almost like eating paste.
@ruouttaurmind You must be buying the high-end paste. No Elmer’s for you.
@Limewater @ruouttaurmind I know it isn’t convenient for everybody but if you can find a Trader Joe’s I think the natural stuff I buy is $2. I definitely keep it in the fridge. I prefer it that way, especially when eating it straight out of the jar.
@Limewater @ruouttaurmind you have to add some salt.
@cf1 I threw away the trader Joe’s peanut butter. It was impossible to spread after keeping in the fridge.
PB&J with a preference towards raspberry, strawberry, or mixed fruit jam/jelly.
However on special occasions, peanut butter and chocolate cake frosting sandwiches…
@duodec Cake frosting is a new one.
@duodec what?!? Oh Jesus H. I need to try that immediately.
It’s tough to nail down one type since I try different variations but I’d have to say fresh peanut butter, honey and fruit. Sometimes bacon. If I have time for all that, otherwise some decent bread with fresh peanut butter and jam of any sort will scratch the itch.
Nutella. Sometimes PB & Nutella on toast so they both melt and mix together. This should be done with creamy PB, btw.
Honey is a respectable choice. Not my usual go-to, but a great combo.
As for PB&J, the J should always be jam (or preserves), jelly sucks. Grape, strawberry and blackberry (or marionberry here in the PNW) are all great. My preference is crunchy PB, but I would not turn down creamy. Generally on whole wheat because that’s what’s around, but ideally on potato bread.
Sriracha
@macromeh Really? How do you do it?I’ve tried it jalapeño peanut butter, but not this.
@Targaryen Just spread peanut butter on bread/toast/bagel, then squirt random dots of Sriracha on top. Sometimes I’ll add a bit of jelly, too.
/image graham cracker
@cattylaq yum! Just butter or margarine spread on a graham cracker is super tasty too!
Usually:
/image Smuckers raspberry preserves
Occasionally banana.
Not fond of Nutella with PB. Dulls the Nutella flavor.
Marshmallow fluff is too much with PB.
I bet it would be good with Nutella… How have I never tried that?
Maybe cuz I never have fluff in my cabinet.
You won’t believe it and probably won’t try it (you should but I wouldn’t believe me, either):
Sliced tomatoes, red and ripe!!
@llangley You’re right… I don’t believe it!
@llangley Absolutely the correct answer
@cinoclav A classic snack! With or without “ants?”
@Targaryen I’ve never actually had it with raisins. Have to try it one day.
@cinoclav @Targaryen No ants!
@cinoclav Mom would give us that.
Preference is PB on apple slices. Sandwich is PB with caramel sauce or Lyle’s Golden Syrup.
@rockblossom With peanut butter is basically how I eat apples if I’m eating them raw.
@joelmw @rockblossom Oh yeah I forgot about peanut butter on apples. In our case the crab apples we picked off the tree (although mostly we threw them at each other, but if we were to eat them they tasted better with peanut butter on them).
Just waiting for someone to say they like peanut butter and Marmite.
@Targaryen
A match made in …
@rockblossom Hell? Hell is the word you were looking for?
PBJ&Honey
@ThomasF this is what i was raised on
Where is the peanut butter BACON love? My mum’s favorite, and a pleasing sandwich if I may say so myself.
@enville Right here, I do enjoy bacon on sandwiches from time to time.
Peanut Butter and Ladies
@Supportathan
Grew up on Skippy Extra Crunchy & cheap strawberry preserves (usually has big ol’ chunks of fruit) on white bread (Wonder brand preferred). In college switched to wheat bread (Nature’s Own mentioned above is pretty good).
When my kids were old enough for sandwiches, they were NOT into chunky food, so we switched to creamy Jif Creamy (buy the giant 2-paks @ Sam’s) and honey or sometimes grape jelly). A few years later the grape ‘graduated’ to red raspberry.
I’m not a fan of raw tomatoes (don’t judge), so my BLT toast sammich is transformed into BL & PB. So much protein and crunch - yum!
I have to buy the more natural versions. If I buy the delicious sugar-added types like Jif or Skippy, I will literally eat the whole thing with a spoon, but it’s gotta be dipped into sugar. My mouth is watering right now just thinking of it. If I do buy that kind for baking, I have to have my husband hide the leftovers from me and then I still rip the house apart looking for it…
/giphy Peanut butter and sugar
@moonhat I have to have the natural type also. After having that for a while now I cannot stand the stuff with the sugar in it.
@lseeber good point. I have the natural kind spread on an apple almost daily now.
My favorite is peanut butter and homemade grape jam on white bread or white toast. I will also accept cherry preserves. But that is it. Any other flavor of jelly is sacrilege.
As far as a weird combination - grilled peanut butter and American cheese. My brother in law used to eat them daily. I was disgusted the first time I saw him but he made me try it. I will admit it was delicious. That being said, however, I’ve never made one on my own.
And honey unless I can find Trader Joe’s Blackberry jam which I have been unable to find for the last year. I don’t live by a Trader Joes (nearest one 450 miles away) so I only get to look 3 times a year.
Also put it on celery and as a kid ate it with marshmallow, also mom’s home made grape jam - generally with a few fruit flies embedded . I did learn the hard way as a kid vacuuming up fruit flies out of the air only works if you then leave the vacuum outdoors long enough for them to escape OUTSIDE and not in the house.
@Kidsandliz A fluffernutter!!!
And I forgot bananas. Used to do that too.
@Kidsandliz You might try Aldi’s (if you have one near) since they are the parent company of Trader Joe’s.
@rtjhnstn Didn’t know that. Thanks. Same problem though in there is none of those around here either. But now I know to search for them in other cities.
Peanut Butter is very delicious, I LIKE IT.
First - PB & sliced dill pickles
Second - PB & bananas
Third - PB & jalapeno
Honey
I go between grape and strawberry jelly. Even apple jelly is good.
And with peanut butter, it’s always creamy. In fact, I recently backed this on Kickstarter:
https://pintfulpeanutbutter.com/
It’s soooo good.
Dip stalks of celery into peanut butter! It’s amazing! It’s counter-intuitive; trust me, try it if you haven’t yet.
@PocketBrain Or just spread it on the celery. Mom would give as thats kids.
@Kidsandliz @PocketBrain same here.
@PocketBrain Halfway up the page.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/peanut-butter-and#5b7599715516e7008cb4524a
I like (in order of preference but the 3rd is most frequent b/c I THINK is healthiest):
-PB & honey
-PB & honey & banana
-PB & banana
-PB & any berry-based jam/jelly
-PB & thin apple slices
-PB & grape jelly
Also prefer 9 grain wheat or waffles or toasted rye over white bread, but will do any of those.
And PB on celery (w or w/o raisins) or apple slices or just on a spoon is a winner.
I highly prefer creamy but will have crunchy.
Never had the fluff, bacon or butter, but assume I’d like each. Not sure I’d try mayo, cheese or onions, but never say never.
Can’t eat chocolate (caffeine problem) but one son eats nothing but PB & Nutella or PB & strawberry jelly on rye, the other nothing but PB & grape jelly on 9 grain wheat.
When the son that does Nutella was a toddler, he was a pain to get to eat. So I bought stage 3 baby food (mixes of meat and veggies that looked like brown paste) and make him PB & strawberry jelly & baby food sandwiches. He never complained (and he complained about a lot of foods.)
I thought Elvis ate PB & fluff & banana.
Okay, now I know what I’m having for breakfast. How long till breakfast?
@mollama Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches were the favorite for Elvis.
@djslack I’ll try that this recipe this weekend.
Peanut butter w/ brown sugar and maple syrup. I learned this one from a kid on my tennis team in high school, it became the unofficial after-match snack for all of the boys doubles teams…good stuff!
Peanut butter and yellow mustard. I don’t remember why I tried it, but I eat that at least once a month.
@looseneck That one sounds so off the wall I may just have to try it.
I’ve been eating this stuff like crazy lately…Just recently tried it with peanut butter on a sandwich last week, and just about lost my mind!! Eaten 10 or more since that time!! Try it out if you can find it…(I buy it from ThriveMarket.com)
@tohar1 the …creature (?) on that label is absolutely terrifying
@LemonTheCat Have you ever looked at a hand of ginger? It is a bit terrifying…I mean, who was the first person to look at that & say, “I’m going to eat that!” It was probably the same person that said the same thing about an oyster…
Trust me though…if you like ginger at all, this stuff is the nectar of the gods!! I think I’m on at least my 10th bottle…I also really like it in my morning coffee with a drop or 2 of peppermint essential oil…
@tohar1 I have to try this.
@christinewas and I have a father-daughter Black Friday tradition that includes World Market and various ginger products (we are both big fans of the heavenly root). We’ve see that before. She’s probably purchased some when I wasn’t with her, but we’ll have to get a jar or two for the holiday this year and go crazy with it.
@tohar1 @joelmw I have purchased some of this. Apparently when my dad wasn’t with me. We used it with pumpkin pancakes. But I definitely want to try the peanut butter thing now.
@tohar1 in your coffee! Brilliant!
@christinewas That’s an every-morning for me. With the addition of the peppermint, it makes it more similar to a tea, but I enjoy the heck out of it. PS: I had to have a PB & Ginger Syrup sandwich for lunch just because of all the talk this morning!!
@tohar1 I prefer tea anyway. My favorite teas all come from this amazing tea shop in Missoula, MT, but my favorite tea that comes from a grocery store is a seasonal flavor called White Christmas. It’s a peppermint ginger tea and it’s amazing. If I can make my coffee taste more like that tea, it seems like drinking coffee any other way is a mistake.
@christinewas I know there’s quite a few essential oils out there but I really like this product from ThriveMarket.com (Good product at a great price—Less than $13 for a 50ml bottle!)
PB and honey…or PB on apples…occasionally carrots
Peanut butter everything/anything.
my top fav though would have to be, a PBJ, with Grape Jelly. (Pref. mom’s homemade, but, our old grape source dried up 20yrs ago, and…the jelly’s just never been the same…)
now for the oddball combos, 2 of my dad’s favs are
PB& Bologna sandwiches(actually not that bad…)
Carrots and PB(similar vein to Celery) either spread on, or as a dip…
now a “Gourmet Treat Especial” I was recently turned on to by David Freiberger(of Hotrod/Roadkill fame) is PB on a Brown Sugar & Cinnamon Pop Tart. (Pref. toasted before PB application)
We don’t typically have bread in the house (because of the celiac thing and because good gluten-free bread is too damned expensive and because we really don’t need or want the carbs), but there is always peanut butter or almond butter.
I’m a fan of several of the options listed above, but one of my new regular snacks is peanut butter, craisins and maybe a little honey–on a big spoon or out of a little bowl.
@joelmw Throw that mix onto a celery stick & you’d have “Red Ants on a Log”…Sounds like a very doable snack to me!
@tohar1 I eschew celery. Though if I do eat it, yes, I prefer it be drowned out in ants on a log (and, yes, red ants on a log sounds perfect).
@joelmw So - is that because you got the genetic code that makes celery taste like dirty dish water, but crunchy? I got that one, and the one that makes cilantro taste like soap. I can live with that because I can taste the subtle flavors in vanilla, which most people can’t. Taste buds are just weird.
@joelmw Me…I just chew it!!
@rockblossom
), which I could tolerate if not for the fact that it’s also stringy, which is unpleasant in itself, but also leads to problems with my teeth. You see, I have manifold reasons for hating and avoiding celery. 
FWIW, broccoli is one of my favorite foods, but I don’t eat it as much as I like because it similarly gets stuck in my teeth; it’s worth it, so I still eat it quite a bit. Sometimes with a veggie tray, I’ll eat a piece of celery if they’re mostly untouched, just in the name of taking one for the team; now that I know some people love it, I might abandon that meaningless sacrifice. But I do think those fuckers who put veggie trays together throw it in just for filler.
It does taste mostly like dirt to me (although I think it is mostly dirt, but I won’t start that argument
Oddly, I can taste some of the soapiness in cilantro, but something insanely delicious as well. Folks seem to say it’s one or the other. I think it’s a continuum.
I’m not sure about vanilla. I hesitate to claim that my discernment is extraordinary, but I have always been a bit baffled by the expression “plain vanilla”, except as a sort of abstracted or associative (i.e., with the whiteness) meaning divorced from actual reality. Vanilla has plenty of nuanced flavor, and I can often identify its subtle contributions even in combination.
@tohar1
/giphy I see what you did there
@tohar1 “Eschew” is one of my favorite words. I think I first became fully conscious of it during a particularly focused reading of the book of Job–which is a favorite for all kinds of reasons (and is grossly under-appreciated and misunderstood, imo). Also, though they could (and arguably should) have used one of numerous other synonyms, the editors of my Biblical Hebrew primer did indeed give “eschew” as the meaning of the verb used there.
“Eschew” is a bit ostentatious and archaic, but so am I so, oh well.
@joelmw JOB??? I knew I liked you!! One of my favorites growing up!!
Also this might be relevant to the discussion:
https://altonbrown.com/wok-fried-peanut-butter/
@Targaryen Alton Brown is always relevant–or at least interesting even if he’s not technically altogether relevant.