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TribLive Taste Test: Peanut-butter-and-jelly candy

Patrick Varine
By Patrick Varine
1 Min Read Dec. 19, 2025 | 2 weeks Ago
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Peanut butter and jelly — two great tastes that taste great together.

But what happens when you start throwing other ingredients into the mix?

Today, we aim to find out, by trying Peanut Butter & Jelly M&Ms and Reese’s PB&J Peanut Butter Cups.

I don’t know if there is such a thing as a “standard” jelly in a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, but for the record, Reese’s is using strawberry jelly.

To be fair, neither ingredient list contains “jelly,” only sugar.

Really, there are two primary questions that need to be answered here:

1) Is it good?

2) (And this one is more specific to the peanut-butter cup) Is it going to ruin my shirt when I bite into it?

Let’s find out!

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Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com.

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