JMcAndrew sends this in: “I don’t ever eat them myself but is this an actual problem that people who do eat sardines encounter? Sardines have tiny bones so I don’t think people are using them for sandwiches either.”
Your editor remembers his father-in-law, of Norwegian ancestry, eating sardines on toast regularly. He lived to be 95 years old, so perhaps the calcium from all those sardine bones kept his bones strong. But I don’t recall problems with the sardines sliding out.
This also leads to a consideration of what can go well in a peanut butter sandwich. Jellies and jams for sure. Marmalade and honey are close relatives. Raisins are also a sweet touch. Peanut butter and dill pickle chips, or peanut butter and sauerkraut are good for a savory change of pace. I’ve never tried a peanut butter and sardine sandwich. Any other nominees?
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Sardine sandwiches are fine. They used to be a pretty common thing. Ideally with mayo, not peanut butter. Cheaper than “good” canned tuna and better than cheap canned tuna.
As to odd peanut butter sandwiches, PB & banana – popularized by Elvis – is pretty tasty.
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I like sardines on toast, but I think they are too oily-soggy to go in a sliced-bread sandwich; the harder crusty base of toast is a better substrate from an engineering point of view. The bones aren’t a problem, at least for those sardines you get packed tight in tins; the bigger ones people fry fresh on the seafront in Mediterranean ports may provide more of a bone issue.
What goes well with peanut butter in UK-land is (savoury yeast extract) marmite, so much so that Marmite (the company) also produces a peanut butter and marmite (the product) combo – https://www.marmite.co.uk/its-nuts.html . To me that’s misguided, putting it all into one smooth blend with a fixed ratio. With a jar of peanut butter and a jar of marmite you can create your own combination in the proportions you prefer, which might be different at different times of the day; why, you can even have part of the piece of toast with all marmite or all peanut butter or both in layers!
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Sardines may be packed in either water or oil. Probably it is the oil-packed sardines that Dagwood finds too slippery. I have not tried combining peanut butter with oil (it’s usually olive oil), but it doesn’t sound very good.
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Oil (peanut oil, specifically) is an essential component of peanut butter.
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Used to get a french loaf, hollow it out, and stuff it with sardines and eggs. Pretty good.
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I kid you not: peanut butter and bologna. Devised experimentally or as a lark out of necessity, it became a staple of my boyhood years.
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I used to really like making peanut butter sandwiches with grated Kraft parmesan cheese. I didn’t like jelly as a kid so I just started trying to put things that I did like with peanut butter.
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Sardines may be packed in either water or oil.
I have also seen mustard and (new-ish) hot sauce.
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I never was big on mixing things with peanut butter. My mother liked dill pickles or tomato. If not plain, I usually have strawberry preserves or some other jam. I do sometimes put butter on, which was how my father ate them. In later years, I did try some bread-and-butter pickles with it, which wasn’t too bad, but not a hugely compelling combination either.
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I forgot about peanut butter on a bacon cheeseburger. It’s not too obscure of a combination – every good-sized city has some burger places with it on the menu – but a lot of people who like bacon, cheese, burgers, and peanut butter are skeptical of the combination. I recommend giving it a shot some time when you’re ravenously hungry and don’t mind getting messy (it will drip).
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oh, PB &Sardines is a real thing, I’ve done it.
So many YouTube videos of folks trying it
Here is an oldie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owApxGBDWXg
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I like peanut butter and marshmallow creme sandwiches.
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A number of small fish are served with the bones in (I was unpleasantly surprised by this once when I ordered smelt), the idea is that humans can safely eat the bones.
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I grew up with PB and bacon sandwiches, also grilled cheese with PB. I also eat Oreos and similar sandwich cookies with peanut butter.
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