PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY DIDN’T ALWAYS KNOW EACH OTHER

If you’ve got kids around the house this summer, you’ve probably made your fair share of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. But, did you know peanut butter and jelly were once strangers? During its early years, peanut butter was a delicacy, only to be served in upscale tearooms. Chefs combined it with beef, pimientos, Worcestershire sauce, and other ingredients. But around 1900, peanut butter met jelly, and the sweet-salty combination was an instant hit with kids. As the commercial peanut butter industry took off, the cost of the spread dropped dramatically. By the time the Great Depression hit, hungry Americans were relying on PB&J as a cheap, nutritious meal, and later, during World War II, soldiers were scarfing them down on the battlefield. The sandwich has been a national touchstone ever since. Today, the average American child eats about 1,500 PB&J sandwiches before finishing high school. Each year Americans consume 500 million pounds of peanut butter, enough to cover the floor of the Grand Canyon.

PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY DIDN’T ALWAYS KNOW EACH OTHER

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