Posted on 09/21/2022 3:59:20 PM PDT by mylife
During the Great Depression, people valued high-calorie combinations of protein and fat. Meat and dairy were costly, and consuming enough energy could prove challenging. Enter peanut butter and mayonnaise on white bread. The combination became a staple in Southern households in the United States and, in some regions, it was as ubiquitous as peanut butter and jelly. For the next 30 years or so, the PB&M was a favorite in many American kitchens, perhaps because adding mayonnaise to the era’s rustic, coarse nut butter may have been key for spreadability. According to Garden & Gun, newspapers from the 1940s in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Troy, New York, both advised adding mayonnaise to “moisten” or “thin” peanut butter before adding bacon or shredded American cheese.
In the 1960s, Hellman’s Mayonnaise debuted an advertisement suggesting fun ways to spice up the basic peanut butter & mayo sandwich. To make a “Double Crunch,” one simply added bacon and pickles. A “Funny Face” called for raisins and carrots (and some degree of artistic capability). The “Apple Fandango” featured sliced apples and marmalade, while the “Crazy Combo”—you’ve been warned—included salami, sliced eggs, and onions.
Today, a seemingly limitless array of sandwich ingredients are affordable, but peanut butter and mayonnaise remain a beloved combination among the many Americans who grew up eating them. It also continues to maintain standing as one of the cheapest, highest-calorie pairings out there (one tablespoon of either condiment contains about 100 calories). But while famished people struggling through the Great Depression replenished themselves with the dense snack, for 21st-century Americans, the combo of the two, gooey spreads is more likely to inspire a midday nap.
Ok, so I took a slice of bread, a heaping tablespoon of peanut butter and a half a banana and made a half sandwich hotdog looking PB&B thing.
Perfect.
I knew a kid in elementary school who'd bring peanut butter and yogurt sandwiches. He was constantly mocked.
I'm sure his parents were hippies.
Forgot the sliced banana’s on them as well.
all I have is a burnt weenie sandwich :(
prefer cream cheese
good choice
Ate pb&m sandwiches all my boyhood (1950s and 60s). But we were a Miracle Whip family so that is my preference over mayo.
susy cream cheese?
mw, indeed
Oh gag me with a spoon. The thought of that makes me wretch.
:)
“There’s very few things in this world I want mayonnaise on. Peanut butter is definitely NOT one of them.”
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Yep, mayonnaise is for BLTs and not for mixing with peanut butter.
pb and pickle guy here
PB & Mayo is still my preference!
Peanut butter and sliced bananas, heaven on bread.
A real treat was two slices of bread, mayo on both and sliced bananas to complete. YUMMY!
Pb and bananas or potato chips
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