PB and J sandwiches!

English translation: peanut butter and jelly

10:15 Mar 17, 2005
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Food & Drink / sandwich for break fast
English term or phrase: PB and J sandwiches!
I think this is American sandwiches...PB Peanut butter?? how about J???? this is for break fast.

I have no idea...HELP
Kaori Myatt
France
Local time: 13:11
Selected answer:peanut butter and jelly
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Elena Petelos
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:11
Grading comment
Thanks for your quick response! I like Japanese breakfast though! :)
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pb and j sandwiches!
peanut butter and jelly


Explanation:
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Note added at 2 mins (2005-03-17 10:17:50 GMT)
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-06,GGL...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-06...

:-))

Elena Petelos
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: Greek
Grading comment
Thanks for your quick response! I like Japanese breakfast though! :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nesrin: yep, in America, jelly not jam.
1 min
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agree  Ali Beikian
3 mins
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agree  Mark Nathan: I used to like peanut butter and banana on rye bread
4 mins
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agree  Philip Taylor
5 mins
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agree  Chutzpahtic (X)
5 mins
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agree  Aisha Maniar
6 mins
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agree  msherms: yep---- it's a classic - and it is jelly (as I mentioned below) because it is usually grape jelly. The word jam does exist in AE (strawberry jam) but it has fruit chunks
6 mins
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agree  Madeleine MacRae Klintebo
14 mins
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agree  vixen: For Mark: I still like peanut butter and banana on my bread.
15 mins
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agree  Marie Scarano
16 mins
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agree  Will Matter
21 mins
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agree  Carmen Schultz: Yep, that's the one
22 mins
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agree  JeffFish (X): and potato chips
25 mins
  -> ...no pancakes??? :-))

agree  David Knowles: In the face of my shameful failure to remember it's "jelly" and not "jam" I withdraw my answer :-)
27 mins
  -> thank you :-))

agree  Maria Karra
50 mins
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agree  avsie (X): Absolutely :-)
1 hr
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agree  A.Đapo
1 hr
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agree  DGK T-I: a very American sandwich (for Britain, Marmite or a chip butty?)
1 hr
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agree  Can Altinbay
3 hrs
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agree  Ian Burley (X)
3 hrs
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agree  Calliope Sofianopoulos (X)
3 hrs
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agree  NancyLynn: how did you get your thank you to David to run like that?
3 hrs
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agree  Maria Chmelarova
3 hrs
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agree  RHELLER: kids prefer jelly because it doesn't have pieces of stuff in it :-)))
4 hrs
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agree  Lamberto Victorica: Yes, and delicious.
11 hrs
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agree  conejo: Yes. However, this seems odd to be eating for breakfast!!! Lunch, yes, but breakfast?? lol
12 hrs
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agree  gtreyger (X)
1 day 6 hrs
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