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The top of a sandwich made of sliced bread is the same as the top side of the loaf.
A sandwich made of sliced bread has six sides. Two broad sides and four thin, crusted sides. Three of the crusted sides are straight and one is curvy. The curvy side is the top of the sandwich.
Jelly on top, peanut butter on the bottom, bread in the middle
Whichever one I want to taste more of on the next bite goes down!
Does nobody else flip their sandwiches over periodically like this?
Nope. Those are autistic waters.
Sure, but this is Lemmy!
I'm more of a 3 slice pbj my self
Peanut butter is placed on BOTH sides of bread, and the jelly goes in-between those layers of peanut butter. This keeps the jelly from making your bread soggy.
I've never had a problem with jelly-sogged bread.
This is the way
My approach for the more liquidy sandwich toppings is to deliberately give them direct access to the bread so that they soak up in it instead of dripping out. It doesn't get soggy because the bread is toasted.
Jelly stuck inside layers of impenetrable peanut butter sounds like a mess either when the sandwich compresses during the first bite or later on, when your bite includes the centre of jelly mass.
Though for maximizing peanut butter (which is also a worthy goal), you could do both pieces of toast but leave a gap in the middle of one (or both).
but how does the jelly crystalize in the bread then?
the best part of a PBJ is the smooth pb and the crunchy jelly.
You spread the peanut butter on one slice of bread, then wipe the knife off on the second slice, spreading a super thin layer of peanut butter across the surface to seal it, so the jelly doesn't seep in.
Then you use the now clean knife to spread the jam or preserves over the thin layer of peanut butter, and slap them together, and slice it in half.
Stripes. Side by side. Peanut butter next to jelly next to peanut butter, and so on. No top. No bottom. Just utter chaos.
Depends on which fingers you want to get dirty.
The 4th Earl of Sandwich would be highly offended by this.
But all the fingers still get dirty?
But you flipped your whole hand, still holding the sandwich, so you didn't change the top or bottom...
This is angry upvote material.
Absofuckinglutely! The jelly will gooify the bread on on a much faster rate than the peanut butter. You have to eat that sumbitch jelly up and that’s all there is to it!
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.
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You get a plate and 2 pieces of bread. Peanut butter one piece, jelly the other, then stick them bread-side-up to the plate. Consume with a knife and fork like a civilized person.
After you top both pieces with Swiss cheese and ketchup of course.
hurk
Jelly on the top slice, probably because that side has less structural stability as it becomes moistened by the jelly/jam.
The whole "pb on both pieces of bread" thing is SPECIFICALLY for making the sandwich IN ADVANCE like making your lunch in the morning. If you're eating it immediately then that's unnecessary.
That method increases the likelihood of cross-contamination (don't get one ingredient in the other's jar, you heathen), so don't do it UNLESS you're making it in advance.
Anyway, the correct way (for eating-immediately scenarios) is jam on top, as it's less likely to drip that way.
The obviously correct answer is neither.
You have to peanut butter BOTH pieces of bread to create a jelly proof barrier. Then there is no top side!
I put peanut butter on both slices, then jam on top of the peanut butter.
And no butter!
I don't know what's up with those weirdos buttering their bread before putting spreads on, but I'm not one of em!
