When you hear PBJ what comes to mind? Two slices of soft Wonder Bread with grape jelly on one side and creamy peanut butter on the other? Firmer whole wheat brown bread with peach preserves and chunky PB? My husband skips the jelly and goes for banana and honey instead. He's taught the kids to like his PBH's. How many PBJ's have you eaten in a lifetime?
I didn't grow up eating PBJ's. In fact, I had my very first one when I was 28 years old. Yes, you read that right. I was nearly 30 before my teeth sunk into two slices of bread with slathers of salty peanut butter & sweet, gooey, grape jelly sandwiched in between. I would have stopped after the first bite, but was having lunch with a friend. What kind of an example would I have set if I had refused to eat what I'd been served? So I did what I would have expected my children to do, I politely ate my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Don't get me wrong, I love peanut butter. But who in their right mind would ruin it by adding brightly colored jam or jelly? I want to say that I like my peanut butter good and salty-crunchy too. But that isn't totally true. I wonder what a PBJ would taste like if it wasn't jelly on the sandwich but a good squeeze of Hershey's chocolate atop the Peanut Butter.
MMmmmm....maybe I could learn to love this new version of PBJ's.
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We love PBJ's, especially my hubby. We grew up on them and my kids have continued the tradition. Now peanut butter and chocolate, hmmm...maybe!
I don't like peanut butter and jelly/jam sandwiches either but my brothers grew up on it - literally. It's either one or the other for me, not both.
I like banana and honey sandwiches but again, not with peanut butter. I don't mind peanut butter and cheese though. :)
I tasted a PBJ once as an adult and that was the first and last time. Give me peanut butter unadulerated -- crunchy please!
Now your new version...with a layer of chocolate..I could be talked into that one!!
I love pb with cheese on whole grain bread. I'm nutty like that ;o)
Peanut butter and chocolate? I like the way you think!
It is funny. I like peanut butter. And I like jelly (sometimes) on my toast. But I can't stand putting jelly and peanut butter together. YUCK! ;-D
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