Jelly goes in the center. Both slices of bread should have a thin coating of PB to keep the bread from getting soggy with jelly.
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Every single answer so far says jelly up. I've never eaten a pbj the right way apparently. I've always put jelly on bottom.
Jelly on top, if you use the same knife for both peanut butter and jelly, you'll mix jelly with the PB in the jar. I know I don't want that, but to each his own, I guess. PB doesn't tend to get into the jelly jar as much, in my experience, but again, to each his own.
I just wipe the jam off the knife onto the clean slice of bread before doing the peanut butter side. No getting it in the peanut butter jar.
50% PB and 50% J per slice of bread. Make two lines of ingredients and then alternate the order on the 2nd, so all 4 quadrants are touching their counterpart.
Yes, peanut butter and fluff; a fluffernutter.
Jelly on top, peanut butter on the bottom, bread in the middle
Jelly on top gang checking in.
The real pro tip is you peanut butter both sides then jelly center.
This is what I do, except the jelly is on both sides of a third and toasted piece of bread.
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Jelly on top, absolutely. In all sandwiches, ingredients must go from least dense at the top to most dense at the bottom. This is part of the sandwich bitelaws.
Not true,ingredients must go from most dense at the bottom to least dense at top!
What if you just mixed the jelly and the peanut? Has anyone tried this? Does it fuck with the mouthfeel?
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Does anything in the Universe have a defined "up" side?
Let us discuss over a jug of absinthe.
Peanut butter goes directly on the bottom slice of bread, then the jelly (or jam, or honey) gets spread on top of the peanut butter. That way you can mix the two flavors together. Top is either a blank slice of bread, or you can spread a thin layer of PB or dairy butter on the slice to prevent it from soaking up the wetter spread if you won't be eating the sandwich right away.
Everyone knows it's jelly in the middle, peanut butter on each slice of bread.
You’re supposed to apply peanut butter to half of each slice of bread, then jelly to the other half of each slice (so they’re mirror image), then put them together. That way both sides have equal amounts peanut butter and jelly, and it’s 180° radially symmetrical. The best sandwiches are radially symmetrical.
Peanut butter on both slices, jelly in the middle. No I won't take questions.
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yall not adding vegemite to your pb&js are missing out.
I prefer the jelly hit my tongue first because the PB can pierce it. If PB is first, my tongue is coated and resists the jelly.