--- title: 51 foot Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich made by San Diego students description: San Diego students make 51-foot peanut butter and jelly sandwich canonical: https://time.com/49662/students-make-a-51-foot-peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-04T15:45:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:30.763Z og:title: Students Make 51-Foot Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich og:description: They were trying to set a world record og:url: https://time.com/49662/students-make-a-51-foot-peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Students Make 51-Foot Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich twitter:description: They were trying to set a world record twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Students Make a 51-Foot Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 4, 2014 3:45 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 4, 2014 3:45 PM UTC Students in California made a 51-foot peanut butter and jelly sandwich Wednesday — or [National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/04/02/peanut-butter-jelly-time/7194151/) to some. In two minutes and 35 seconds, ten students from Escondido Charter High School built the enormous sandwich out of 30 pounds of creamy peanut butter, [16 40-ounce jars of jelly](http://www.cbs8.com/story/25145943/escondido-students-build-longest-pbj-sandwich), and 25 two-foot loaves of bread, [U-T San Diego](http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/Apr/02/escondido-charter-peanutbutter-jelly/) and [San Diego 6](http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/Escondido-students-build-51-foot-6-inch-peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich-253649311.html) report. A local dairy company donated milk to wash it down. The students were trying to set a Guinness World Record for longest peanut butter and jelly sandwich, [according to](http://www.cbs8.com/story/25145943/escondido-students-build-longest-pbj-sandwich) CBS 8. And in case you were wondering where you could get a bite, don’t bother: the students have already eaten all of it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/49662/students-make-a-51-foot-peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/49662/students-make-a-51-foot-peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich/"},"headline":"Students Make a 51-Foot Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich","datePublished":"2014-04-04T15:45:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:30.763Z","description":"Sound nuts?","url":"https://time.com/49662/students-make-a-51-foot-peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/49662/students-make-a-51-foot-peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich/","name":"Students Make a 51-Foot Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich"}}]}] ```