Kevin Morby: PB&J + Phở

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Singer/songwriter Kevin Morby is a peanut butter and jelly man. Like most kids who grew up in the U.S. before peanut-allergy-mania, he loves the classic lunchbox version. But as an adult he’s taken to adding some very unorthodox ingredients like ... scrambled or fried eggs! In this economy?!

You know who else eats a TON of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? NFL players! Actually, they eat a ton of Uncrustables, and there is data to prove it. Host Rachel Belle interviews the co-creator of Uncrustables to unpack why the world needed a premade PB&J.

And we’ll learn a bit about the history of the PB&J from an expat American journalist who is heartbroken that her England-born children have no interest in her favorite nostalgic sandwich, just like everyone else in the U.K.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.6	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:15.4	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:23.2	The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most,
0:26.6	and we dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:31.5	Today on the program, singer-songwriter Kevin Morby.
0:36.5	This is a photograph. A window to the page. Singer-songwriter Kevin Morby.
0:54.2	Kevin has released seven solo albums, and you're hearing the title track from his latest record.
0:55.9	This is a photograph.
1:04.2	Kevin is obsessed with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, both the classic PB&J and his own very unorthodox combinations.
1:06.6	Turns out, you weirdos also like to stick a bunch of random stuff between peanut
1:10.7	butter and bread. I've between peanut butter and bread.
1:11.6	I've done peanut butter and bok choy. Peanut butter and kale.
1:17.1	We'll hear a few of your voice messages later in the show.
1:20.2	We'll also hear from Len Kretschman, co-inventor of Uncrustibles, who tells us why America needed a pre-made PBNJ.
1:30.0	And journalists and peanut butter sandwich adorer Linda Rodriguez-McRabby shares a little
1:35.1	PBNJ history and her experience being an American expat, living in a country that doesn't
1:41.8	eat or understand the sandwich.
1:49.2	I think that it is the best example of American ingenuity and cuisine.
1:51.5	Peanut butter and jelly, that is American.
1:53.4	That's more American than apple pie.
1:56.1	So yeah, this is a peanut butter and jelly episode.
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