The Perfect PB&J Sandwich

[claws]

Questionnaire:

1. What type of bread?
2. Peanut Butter: smooth or crunchy?
3. What kind of jelly?
4. What is the perfect peanut butter to jelly ratio?
5. To grill the sandwich or not?
6. Any "secret ingredient" ? (nutella, banana slices, marshmallow fluff, honey, pickles, salt etc)

[RCMerchant]

1. Hillbilly brand bread.
2. Crunchy
3. No jelly.
4. See above 
5. No.
6. Baloney and cheese.

[Alex]

Urgh, peanut butter.

[ER]

A dear friend of mine mixes soy sauce into peanut butter and loves the stuff. I tried it once and gagged.

1. I don't eat bread very often.

2. These days crunchy.

3. Concord grape if store bought, dandelion or wild violet if homemade.

4. Spread thin.

5. Only Elvis is allowed to grill peanut butter.

6. Munster cheese goes well with peanut butter.

[pacman000]

White bread; smooth peanut butter; strawberry jelly; even mix of both; not grilled, maybe toast the bread to golden brown; maybe add banana slices, cool whip, or vanilla ice cream.

[Rev. Powell]

Don't know if it's perfect but

1. White bread
2. Crunchy
3. Grape or strawberry
4. Close to 2 pb: 1 jelly.
5. Not.
6. No additions!

On a related topic, can some non-Americans explain their aversion to peanut butter, specifically:

Do you like peanuts in their natural state?
Do you hate alternative nut butters too, e.g. almond butter?
Is it just the texture? The salt?

I understand why people dislike other American foods (i.e. pop tarts, white bread, salty snacks) but I find the hatred of peanut butter as baffling as they find our love of peanut butter.l

[claws]

On a related topic, can some non-Americans explain their aversion to peanut butter, specifically:

Do you like peanuts in their natural state?
Do you hate alternative nut butters too, e.g. almond butter?
Is it just the texture? The salt?

I understand why people dislike other American foods (i.e. pop tarts, white bread, salty snacks) but I find the hatred of peanut butter as baffling as they find our love of peanut butter.l

As an american living in germany I have observed that some german people I know personally don't like peanut butter because it tastes "weird" to them. I do know a few who actually like peanut butter so I wouldn't say all dislike it (I know Irish people hate it based on their youtuber videos  ). Grocery stores started to import pop tarts about two years ago. I don't know if it is disliked much. I did notice that most german people I know from work don't like the combination of salty and sweet snacks however, salty caramel appears to be quite popular here. We do have alternative nut butters but for some reason they are very expensive and fall into the speciality food category. Peanut butter is way cheaper.

[Alex]

Not a big fan of peanuts in any form myself. The taste just doesn't do anything for me. Make it into peanut butter and it looks like something I'd find in one of Ash's nappies. I can't say I've tried any other kind of nut butter though. If Kristi (or anyone else for that matter) has had peanut butter I can't even give her a kiss. I can smell it when she enters the room.

That being said, most other people I know in the UK seem to like peanut butter. Kristi has said there are major differences in the taste in peanut butter from the UK and the US.

[RCMerchant]

A dear friend of mine mixes soy sauce into peanut butter and loves the stuff. I tried it once and gagged.

dandelion or wild violet if homemade.

Why would any sane person use that if it is so much easier to can any other kind of jelly?
I've had dandelion wine- uck! Taste like what it is-grass weeds. As far as the violet one- it seems to me you like it just because it sounds cool. I mean, gimme a break. How special.

I mean, think about it. A strawberry tastes better than a friggen dandelion.

[ER]

A dear friend of mine mixes soy sauce into peanut butter and loves the stuff. I tried it once and gagged.

dandelion or wild violet if homemade.

Why would any sane person use that if it is so much easier to can any other kind of jelly?
I've had dandelion wine- uck! Taste like what it is-grass weeds. As far as the violet one- it seems to me you like it just because it sounds cool. I mean, gimme a break. How special.

I mean, think about it. A strawberry tastes better than a friggen dandelion.

Go pick a violet in your yard and eat it and the mystery will be cleared up. They taste like honeysuckle.

[Allhallowsday]

A dear friend of mine mixes soy sauce into peanut butter and loves the stuff. I tried it once and gagged.
...

I think ER is referring to a Thai dish that her friend eats... maybe sesame noodles?  I have had it and it's delicious (the peanut butter and soy sauce thing on noodles).  Savory and sometimes kick yer arse hot.  I think people make it at home with spaghetti (not the same). 

[Allhallowsday]

...Go pick a violet in your yard and eat it and the mystery will be cleared up. They taste like honeysuckle.

I think I ate violets once; hardly any taste at all.   

[RCMerchant]

A dear friend of mine mixes soy sauce into peanut butter and loves the stuff. I tried it once and gagged.

dandelion or wild violet if homemade.

Why would any sane person use that if it is so much easier to can any other kind of jelly?
I've had dandelion wine- uck! Taste like what it is-grass weeds. As far as the violet one- it seems to me you like it just because it sounds cool. I mean, gimme a break. How special.

I mean, think about it. A strawberry tastes better than a friggen dandelion.

Go pick a violet in your yard and eat it and the mystery will be cleared up. They taste like honeysuckle.

And how many violets would it take me to make a jar of jelly?
I'll be damned if I'm gonna walk around looking for enough violets to make jelly out of.
I mean- where do you live-? In a Little House on the Prairie? Do you where a sundress and carry a wicker basket? 

[ER]

A dear friend of mine mixes soy sauce into peanut butter and loves the stuff. I tried it once and gagged.
...

I think ER is referring to a Thai dish that her friend eats... maybe sesame noodles?  I have had it and it's delicious (the peanut butter and soy sauce thing on noodles).  Savory and sometimes kick yer arse hot.  I think people make it at home with spaghetti (not the same). 

I know the Thai you're talking about (I'm not big on Thai) but my friend just mixes it and eats the soy sauce peanut butter combination on crackers and with a spoon and it brought on a gag reflex in me but she loves it, so to each her own. She needs a quick carbo blast with what she does.

Now wild violets I do like but if you didn't like the taste of them alone, you might actually like them in tea or jelly, which enhances them.

I'm all into wild edibles. Cat tail pollen flour, cat tail roots in stir fry..... maybe it's weird but I find it fascinating to try what's out there growing in nature.

[ER]

Ron, half a cup of violets, loosely packed. Not hard to gather this time of year. After I get out of surgery later I'll send you a recipe if you like. It's actually good stuff and I can only have it in spring, so it's special that way.