Food - Peanutbutter & ______ Sandwiches

[wingsandsword]

Mostly I remember that it was insanely spicy-hot. Sort of like if Satan made cole slaw.

Interestingly, the extreme spiciness of Kim chee has been attributed to why SARS had a remarkably low infection rate in Korea during it's outbreak (given it's spread through the rest of Asia left Korea largely untouched), the spices act as an antimicrobial agent (think about how it's burning your taste buds, then realize it does that to germs too). It is much like why wasabi is added to sushi, besides the flavor, they discovered before refrigeration that it sharply reduced food poisoning, now we know that wasabi is quite effective at killing microbes normally related to food poisoning, and wasabi is botanically also a member of the cabbage family).

 

[Wyn A'rienh]

Y'all have inspired me. As I type this, my children are having their first ever PB & banana sandwiches. And I'm having one too. Yum.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

Peanut Butter and Nutella

and bananna

and fruit preserves

and maybe some honey

and, occasionally, a few marshmallows, but then it requires microwaving.

That whole peanut-butter and lunch meats and mayo and kim-chee with vegemite and avocado and mustard with bacon and jelly and syrup and cheese and pickles thing you all are talking about is just gross! I don't care if you pan or deep fry it. It's still gross. Some foods don't go together, no matter how delicious they might be separately.

Shemeska: for reference, when the kim chee, or anything else pre-packaged, for that matter, swells, that usually means that something bacterial is developing inside and it should no longer be eaten. Food poisoning is bad and can happen with just about any food, so please don't eat from swollen cans or jars anymore. We value your posts too much to have you die eating bad fiendish coleslaw.

 

[Torm]

I can't believe this thread has gone this far and no one has mentioned putting PB in a bowl, mixing it with a goodly amount of maple syrup, and then using that for the sandwich! No one else from the Ozarks on here?

Peanut butter with bacon AND maple syrup sounds pretty good - I'll have to try adding bacon, now that I've seen a few mention it here. I usually eat some bacon together in the same bites with pancakes and syrup and I like that that way, so why not?

A friend of mine from Mass. introduced me to the whole PB & Marshmallow Cream - also known as a fluffenutter sandwich. Good stuff on occasion, although the marshmallow is a little hard to spread.

Once a year at Mabon (aka Harvest Home), I make up a big bunch of peanut butter mixed with cream cheese and apple juice for some of my friends. Makes a darn fine dip for apple slices, and I usually have a little left over so I've made sandwiches with that. Pretty good that way, too.

 

[Templetroll]

PB&grape jelly or jam - wife and daughter like jelly so we get that unless I'm doing the shopping. PB&Fluff is cool but I don't need that much sugar ever.

banana should be alone on buttered toast. it has the nutty flavor by itself and does not need PB. I can understand why you might put PB on it just adding my view on that topic.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

big bunch of peanut butter mixed with cream cheese

genius!

 

[fusangite]

Peanut Butter and Nutella

I love Nutella. For years they had an Amiga 1000 in their ads.

 

[James Heard]

PB & cold pepperoni pizza, just a peanut butter sandwich with a slice of pizza in there. Yum.

PB, black olives, and tabasco. I've thought about adding onions and fruit maybe to this one. It helps if the bread is toasted very crisp.

And PB & chicken with rice is awesome - but that's more of a stir fry sandwhich than anything else.

Oh yeah, one more. PB & absolutely fresh pineapple is really good too. Unfortunately since I left Hawai'i I've decided that pineapple isn't the same at all. It has to be really really firm or else it doesn't feel right with the peanut butter.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

I love Nutella.

I grew up on Nutella, but for the longest time, I thought that nobody else had ever heard of it.

We used to have to buy Nutella at the commissary because regular grocery stores didn't carry it. Then again, when my folks first came to the states, grocers didn't know what yoghurt was, but would special-order it on the condition that you agreed to buy it by the case.

I felt kind of guilty the first time I put PB and Nutella on a sandwich together - it seemed like such a waste of Nutella, like mixing expensive, top-shelf liquor with generic soda, but we only ever buy JIF, and hey - it tastes good, so I no longer have qualms about it.

 

[kenobi65]

We used to have to buy Nutella at the commissary because regular grocery stores didn't carry it.

It's only in the past 10 years or so that Nutella's become widely available here in the U.S. I don't care for it much, but my wife's an addict. She discovered it while visiting Europe.