When was the peanut butter and jelly sandwich invented and by whom?
Food historians have seen nothing written about the peanut butter and jelly sandwich before 1940. What we do know is that GI’s in WW 2 were given rations of both peanut butter and jelly. When they returned to the states after the war peanut butter sales and jelly sales both soared. It would seem most likely this would be the birth of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/PBJ/peanut_butter_jelly.htm See Smucker’s timeline for PB&J: http://www.smuckers.com/fc/newsroom/archive/pbj0302_b.asp NOTE: See Question #94101 for similar question.
