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Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and other lockdown madness

  • 28-05-2020 03:17PM
    #1
    Sheep_shear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭Sheep_shear


    I usually have a couple of cream cracker with peanut butter on them after my main lunch. Today I was looking at them and then a thought entered my head - "Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches". I'm in my thirties, grew up watching American tv crap shows and the kids are always eating them. I've been aware of them for three decades yet not once have I even thought about having one. Why not?

    I think I'm gonna give one a go.

    What weird food has your lockdown madness led you to?


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  • #2
    Lillyfae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Lillyfae


    Wine.


  • #3
    Dax Tall Acid
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Dax Tall Acid


    Are you just talking about peanut butter and jam? Because that is lovely


  • #4
    Mena Mitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Are you just talking about peanut butter and jam? Because that is lovely

    That's my favourite comfort food but with a slice of chedder cheese on the peanut butter and jam on top and a cup of coffee.


  • #5
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Toasted sambos done on a George Foreman grill. Cheese (lots) olives apple lettuce tomato any leftover meat sausage. Mmmmm!


  • #6
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    I bought a bottle of mead online. I thought I would be sitting outside in the Sun in the garden drinking my mead being all sophisticated. Turns out mead tastes like piss.


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  • #7
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Are you just talking about peanut butter and jam? Because that is lovely

    What's called "jelly" in America isn't what we know as jelly, it's basically jam made from juice only, without any fruity bits. Much like they way over there, crisps are "chips" and chips are "fries".


  • #8
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I've discovered asparagus, sweet-potato and emmental cheese sauce pastries in the Aldi, and I'm aytin' them like some sort of demented eejit. With portions of meat, of course. :D


  • #9
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    I only know what Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches are because they are Bret Hart's favourite food*

    According to a Wrestling magazine from 1995


  • #10
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Jam, OP, jam.


  • #11
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Are you just talking about peanut butter and jam? Because that is lovely

    Crunchy peanut butter smothering a slice of Irish brown bread(proper stuff, not slice pan shoite) with a covering of raspberry conserve and a mug of coffee...nuff said!


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  • #12
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,340 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Mmmmmm, Bramble jelly. :)


  • #13
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    Bacon & Cabbage Sangwitch

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #14
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    peanut butter and jam , two of my least favourite foods


  • #15
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭screamer


    Forget your jam try peanut butter and golden syrup. And don’t knock it till you’ve tried it


  • #16
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Toasted ham and smoked mature cheddar on chia bread for breakfast

    lying on the couch on a Tuesday morning watching the Red Bull down hill thing

    Covid decadence


  • #17
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    jimgoose wrote: »
    What's called "jelly" in America isn't what we know as jelly, it's basically jam made from juice only, without any fruity bits. Much like they way over there, crisps are "chips" and chips are "fries".

    So, not really like crisps/chips at all because , as you say, jelly and jam are actually two different things. We also have jelly here but it's usually homemade rather than commercially produced.

    Redcurrant jelly would be a commonly available commercially produced jelly.
    Crabapple jelly, a well known homemade jelly.

    Don't pedant a pedant!! ðŸ˜


  • #18
    Sheep_shear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭Sheep_shear


    I tried penaut butter and jam (blackcurrent) on a cracker. I shall not be repeating that.


  • #19
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Jam, OP, jam.

    What's the difference between jam and jelly?
    ðŸ˜


  • #20
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    So, not really like crisps/chips at all because , as you say, jelly and jam are actually two different things. We also have jelly here but it's usually homemade rather than commercially produced.

    Redcurrant jelly would be a commonly available commercially produced jelly.
    Crabapple jelly, a well known homemade jelly.

    Don't pedant a pedant!! ðŸ˜

    It's all bollocks anyway - I call the whole lot "preserves". :D


  • #21
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    jimgoose wrote: »
    It's all bollocks anyway - I call the whole lot "preserves". :D

    An excellent solution!


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  • #22
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Sheep_shear wrote: »
    I tried penaut butter and jam (blackcurrent) on a cracker. I shall not be repeating that.

    A cracker?

    Not sure about that. Try it on bread would be my advice.

    My mum used make me peanut butter and jam sandwiches for school. Really lovely. I think I may have switched to butter and jam when I went to college (I was making my own sandwiches at this point). I tried pb &j again a few years back for old times sake and it just wasn't the same. Not sure if that's because I couldn't find the old brand of peanut butter we used to get though.


  • #23
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,948 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    jimgoose wrote: »
    What's called "jelly" in America isn't what we know as jelly, it's basically jam made from juice only, without any fruity bits. Much like they way over there, crisps are "chips" and chips are "fries".

    In America, they don't have cows. They paint horses to look like cows.


  • #24
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    In America, they don't have cows. They paint horses to look like cows.

    Only in Hollywood. In Kansas, they use ducks - that looks much better on account of the huge flat expanse of land. It's a little-known true fact that if you drive as far as the horizon in Kansas you'll still have half as far again to go.


  • #25
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    What kind of twisted sicko thought to put peanut butter and jam between bread?

    I tasted it once, awful as expected. Tasted like bacon somehow, but in a bad way.


  • #26
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,948 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Only in Hollywood. In Kansas, they use ducks - that looks much better on account of the huge flat expanse of land. It's a little-known true fact that if you drive as far as the horizon in Kansas you'll still have half as far again to go.

    Another little known fact is that, you can drive for 48 hours straight in Kansas and not reach Kansas City because of the aforementioned horizonal issues.

    tenor.gif


  • #27
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    i'm baking like a madman...scones, flapjacks, fruitcakes, lemon meringue's....and my speciality.. brown bread courtesy of odlums ready mix easy peasey


  • #28
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    I only know what Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches are because they are Bret Hart's favourite food*

    According to a Wrestling magazine from 1995

    1995?

    The characters in Sesame Street have been talking about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches since the early 70's.

    I always pictured chivers strawberry jelly.


  • #29
    two wheels good
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭two wheels good


    I recommend peanut butter and banana sambos


  • #30
    two wheels good
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    It's all bollocks anyway - I call the whole lot "preserves". :D

    Apart from jam, jelly, marmalade preserves can be pickles and chutneys too.
    It's like all the words for rain or snow - they're required to describe different variations.


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  • #31
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Attempted lots of homemade breads with varying success over the lockdown. Worst was naan bread. You'd have needed Jaws from James Bond teeth to eat them.


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