For a work thing* I needed an image of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and looked to Wikimedia Commons to see if someone had made one available under a Creative Commons licence. Yes!
A peanut butter and jelly sandwich, made with Skippy peanut butter and Welch's grape jelly on white bread, by Evan Amos, published under a CC0 licence on Wikimedia Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peanut-Butter-Jelly-Sandwich.jpg
Scrolling down the page on which the photo is stored (to find the citation information I needed to credit the photographer) I came across this fantastic sentence -
"This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. You can see its nomination here."
I think the image actually only got 1 vote (the main one it was competing with got none but you can see the full range of PBJ images in the category here) so it's not necessarily a slam dunk, but the file is used on 'List of sandwiches' and, of course 'Peanut butter and jelly sandwich'. It's also used on other-language versions of Wikipedia including Erdnussbutter, Sándwich de mantequilla de cacahuete y jalea and Sendvič s arašidovým maslom a želé.
*There's a great video of a dad asking his two children to come up with very precise instructions to make a 'PBJ' sandwich. This and other variants are often used as a fun way to teach kids about computer algorithms and how steps must be followed precisely in the right order to get the result you want. Also that computers have to be told exactly what to do.
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