peanut-butter-and-jelly

plural peanut-butter-and-jellies

1. alternativeAlternative form of peanut butter and jelly (“sandwich”).

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

   1986, Peter De Vries, Peckham’s Marbles, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 39

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   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.

   1970, Judith Viorst, Try It Again, Sam: Safety When You Walk, New York, N.Y.: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, →LCCN

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

   1971 May, Elenor Grozney, “Letters”, in National Lampoon, volume 1, number 14, New York, N.Y.: National Lampoon, Inc., page 6, column 3

   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.

   1979, Donald Barthelme, “Aria”, in The New Yorker, volume LV, New York, N.Y.: The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., →ISSN, page 37, column 1

   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.

   1982, Robert Mayer, Midge & Decker, New York, N.Y.: A & W Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 227

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

   1983, Emily Greenspan, “The Education of the Superstar”, in Little Winners: Inside the World of the Child Sports Star, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 139