Today is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day!
We celebrate the classic, that the average American has eaten over 2000 times before they graduated from high school. Peanut butter was a delicacy in the early 1900s and was only served in New York City’s finest tea rooms, but in an 1896 article Good Housekeeping magazine, had a recipe instructing "homemakers to use a meat grinder to make peanut butter and spread the result on bread,” and on that same year, culinary magazine Table Talk, published a “peanut butter sandwich recipe.”
The rest as we say is history, as it became massively popular with children. the military would bolster that popularity, during World War II, when both peanut butter and jelly were part of the United States military ration list. By 1968, The J.M. Smucker Co. introduced Goober, which jarred a combination of alternating vertical stripes of peanut butter and jelly.
It is the sandwhich that's used in a pinch, on whim as you crave it, and in practicality as a mainstay in your school kids lunch.
Happy PB&J DAY!