PB&ME

I visited PB&ME during the Allagash street fair in June. I mean a fried PB sammy, yes please. The one I got was PB, banana and bacon, deep fried. It was amazing. Loved it. The owners were super friendly and the whole truck ran very efficiently. We also got some French fries and they were on point, on fleek, however you want to say it, they were delicious!

My husband and I had a wonderful wedding in Portland this weekend. We are from out of town and spent a few weeks researching food trucks to provide a unique and tasty midnight snack to our guests at the end of the party.
We settled on PB&ME and I worked with Brad to finalize the details as the day grew near. Sounds great right? I’ll bet it would have been, except three days before the wedding he stopped responding to e-​mails. Needless to say, it was too late to find an alternative when these guys went radio silent and they never showed up for the event at the time we had discussed.
Did I have a wonderful time getting married to my new husband without this added detail to close out the night? Of course I did! Is this experience ridiculously unprofessional and supremely disappointing on such a big day in my life? Yes. Yes it is.
PB&ME, you should be ashamed of yourself.

This truck goes way beyond just PB&J. From Deep Fried Strawberry Shortcake that is made with local Maine strawberries to the fresh, hand-​made Burgers which come from local Maine farms to the Dirty Debbie (a battered and fried Lil’ Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pie) PB & ME is a unique experience that you must try.
Their deep fried foods and sandwiches are reasonably priced (their Pineapple BBQ Burger and Hand-​cut local maine fries was $ 9) and the guys that run the truck are no doubter Mainers.
They also are always trying new ideas — deep fried 3 Musketeers bars, chocolate dipped bacon — there’s always something new to try.
Everywhere I go I seem to bump into them — from ice fishing derbies to the Eastern Prom to Allagash Brewing to the Old Port —
I feel like I’m stalking them — we’ve eaten at their truck about a dozen times. Each time is better than the next.

Someone told me there was a PB and J food truck that served deep fried PB&J sammys. I was psyched. So my coworkers and I stalked them on Facebook until one fine day the stars aligned and we caught them at the bissel brothers on riverside. Unfortunately I was less excited upon realizing these were not deep fried but just grilled like a grilled cheese. I still forged ahead but in the end I paid 8 $ for a warm peanut butter sandwich (with various toppings, Nutella, Apple jam, biscoff) which I think I could have made at home and then at least been able to eat out of the Nutella jar after. It was good but not 8 $ good.

If you like PB you will find something great here! Tried the PB, bacon, banana and honey it was delicious. You can even get them deep fried :)

We stopped here during the Ultimate Maine Food Truck Event. This was the hubby’s must try food truck. We ordered the $ 12 sampler to really try this out. We thought the bread was VERY good, but weren’t blown away by any of the sandwiches. The size of the sampler was soo small. I think if you put all the tiny pieces together. You may have gotten a full sandwich. It would have been cheaper to just pick a sandwich of the board.
My 11 year old loved it though– so that earned it a couple extra bonus points in my book!

Did you know the average American will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before they graduate high school? That’s because every United Statesian knows that PB&J’s (or PB&Fluff’s, PB&cheese’s, PB&bacon&honey’s) are the absolute best. They are quintessential to not just the young, broke, or lazy American’s life… but to everyone everywhere in this here eagle-​loving country of ours.
So when I heard there was a peanut butter and jelly food truck coming to town… I was over the moon until someone I told about it crushed all my dreams when they said, «So you’re gonna pay like $ 5 for a peanut butter sandwich. What’s the big deal?»
What’s the big deal!!! THEY’RE SELLING PB SAMMY’S! So you better believe when they finally opened in Portland I was one of the first folks in line. And that’s when I realized…
Oh. Right. They’re selling PB sammy’s for like $ 5.
Or $ 7 for the one I got — the «Jump Jump» which had peanut butter, fluff, nutella, biscoff, apple jelly, grape jelly, strawberry jam, and raspberry jam. I was expected it to be impressive… but in the end, it was just your run-​of-​the-​mill PB&J sandwich. It wasn’t any bigger than the ones you grew up eating at school. And the only flavors we could taste were the peanut butter, fluff, and apple jelly. All the other components just weren’t very present or flavorful. Worth waiting in line for over an hour for? No. Worth paying $ 7 for? No.
I mean — kudos to them, though — the sandwich making opportunities themselves are endless. There’s crunchy pb, creamy pb, organic pb, nutella, almond butter, biscoff, fluff, basil, hot sauce, fritos, apple jelly, grape jelly, orange marmalde, raspberry jam, strawberry jam, blueberry jam, apples, strawberries, bananas, tomato, fig jam, bacon, american cheese, mozarella cheese, cheddar cheese, pickles, honey, maple syrup, different kinds of bread, different kind of «cook» options (plain, grilled, or fried)… you could see them every day for a year and never eat the same combination of flavors. But…
none of it is stuff you — regardless of your cooking know-​how — couldn’t make yourself at home. Don’t get me wrong — I’m still a huge fan of the idea and may someday be brave enough to try the «Salt on Salt on Salt» (PB, pickles, and Fritos… all fried, too). But if you come here expecting something revolutionary remember… it’s a peanut butter sandwich.