Peanut-butter-and-jelly

Sam was so happy he ate two peanut-butter-and-jellies, and a glass of milk, and chocolate pudding with cream, and five Lorna Doones.

I have undergone over 17 of these therapeutic treatments and if you get hungry, I left some peanut-butter-and-jellies in the fridge.

Sometimes they drift in from the Yukon and other far places, come in and sit down at the kitchen table, want a glass of milk and a peanut-butter-and-jelly, I oblige, for old times’ sake.

She made some peanut-butter-and-jellies, wrapping them in aluminum foil—she wondered whatever happened to wax paper, like her mother used to use—and put them in a paper bag along with some beers and some DDPs.

Some of the students pass up the Sloppy Joes for chicken salad sandwiches, or decide to make their own peanut-butter-and-jellies.

“Oh, yes. Up from the Brownies. We all remember peanut-butter-and-jellies very well. No picnic without them.”

You can feast on turkey tacos for $4.50, vegetarian sandwiches for $4, and peanut-butter-and-jellies for $1.75.

The men greedily unwrapped each sandwich, tossing the peanut-butter-and-jellies into a trash barrel along with the Oreos, Fig Newtons, and carrot strips. Baby food. These were grown men with serious appetites.

Until I was much older and had started thinking for myself more, I followed Ferrell's hand-me-down recipe and swirled the peanut butter and jelly before spreading it on both crackers and white bread. I still love peanut-butter-and-jellies, but now my recipe is my own creation.

“And I’ll make more of those peanut-butter-and-jellies. I’ll eat with him. It’ll help us bond.”

I’ll bring the peanut-butter-and-jellies. It’ll be like camp.

From birth, Christian had a sense of flair: In grammar school he’d cut our peanut-butter-and-jellies into crustless tea sandwiches and include a fluted paper plate in our lunch bags, indifferent to mockery.