$4.49 for a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

by AFantasticClue

22 Comments

  1. HolyNinjaCow

    Someone will buy it — still even though.

  2. basic_cookie_crumb

    Technically, maybe this could still be a little bit cheaper than buying the elements separately? Let’s say 2 to 3 dollars for a loaf of bread, 2 to 3 dollars for peanut butter, and 2 to 3 dollars for jelly. It’s around six dollars probably to make a peanut butter jelly sandwich but if you go to like the dollar tree or 99 Cents store, it’s around that same price. Here they save you the time to make it and just sell it like such..

    But still, this is criminal

  3. Eli_The_Rainwing

    It’s more cost effective to by the ingredients

  4. SentenceAcrobatic

    * Loaf of bread (22 slices) – $1.48

    * Jar of peanut butter (16 oz) – $2.00

    * Jar of jelly (30 oz) – $2.78

    Which gives:

    * Bread (2 slices) – $0.135

    * Peanut butter (2 Tbsp) – $0.143

    * Jelly (1 Tbsp) – $0.066

    PB&J sandwich – $0.34

    Packaging, label, and mark-up – $4.15 ≈ 1220%

  5. Warm-Storage-4965

    Yeah that a lot. How about the uncrustables. I think I spelt that wrong. But anyways, parents are too lazy to make PB&J for the kids lunches. Price it out parents. Not this from OP, I’m guessing is at a convenient store. And I get that price.

  6. Experimentallyintoit

    People pay for convenience. That is nothing new.
    Wawa is essentially a convenience store. Say you’re driving on a long road trip and don’t want to pay $8-13 for a fast food meal that ia terrible for you, then this sandwich doesn’t look like a terrible option anymore

  7. Macaron-Fluffy

    For that price you buy the stuff to make a pb&j!

  8. bingmyname

    You should see what IHOP charges for 16oz of OJ and apple juice

  9. So one big reason I still buy shit like this (not *exactly* this, but prepackaged food to eat at home) is because if I buy a loaf of bread and jars of peanut butter and jelly, my fatass will eat 5 PB&Js. I am, at heart, a fat fuck. That’s exactly why I don’t keep any of these ingredients in my house, just things that are healthy or require work to prepare so that my cheap ass has to wage a war in my mind if I want to be upcharged to eat like shit.

    It fucking sucks. I’m not some degenerate either, the only thing I can’t be consistent with in my life is food/diet.

  10. Ok-Professor3726

    Seems fair. Do they charge extra for it being soggy?

  11. TypeNull-Gaming

    I can buy the ingredients to make a minimum of 3 of those for the same price.

  12. SlackJawGrunt

    It’s not worth it the ratios are all wrong there should be more peanut butter than jelly

  13. Independent-Wolf-832

    Pretty soon food at the airport will be cheaper than stores.

  14. codycarreras

    I went into the store yesterday for a basic turkey sandwich wrapped, ready to go. They were $5 not too long ago, reasonable at that price. $9 for the basic one. $14 for the deluxe one with lettuce. 8.99 for a better sandwich made at the counter. Fucking wild.

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