Sandwich poll

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #2026632]

Comments

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

USAn here: when I was a child, PB&J did involve butter on the jelly side; sometime in my teen years, this ceased to be true.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Would I be extremely rude if I asked approximately how old you are?

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Late fifties.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

We can triangulate this pretty well, then; I am 51 and had a Girl Scout handbook with a recipe for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that did not include butter.

[rozasharn.livejournal.com]

I have The American Woman's Cookbook, dated 1946, with clear and emphatic instructions at the beginning of the sandwich section that all sandwiches must begin with spreading butter meticulously from edge to edge of the bread, explicitly to keep the bread dry.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

So somewhere between 1955 and 1970, it sounds like.

[azurelunatic]

I learned from Mama in the early 1980s. Since they were for school lunches and would therefore be banged about some, it was a sensible approach.