{{Short description|Food product}} {{Notability|date=October 2012}} thumb|A photo of Smucker's Goober Strawberry
'''Goober''' is a combination of peanut butter and jelly in a single jar. It is sold in US, the UK, Canada, Singapore, and other parts of the Commonwealth, and is named after a familiar denomination for peanut in American English, goober pea, from the Gullah name for the peanut, ''guber''. Goober was introduced by The J.M. Smucker Company under the Smucker's brand.
==About== Goober was introduced in 1968.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hogan |first=complied by Vera |date=2018-07-17 |title=A look back at 1968: Candies, foods and other snacks we've been eating for 50 years |url=https://www.tctimes.com/news/looking_back/a-look-back-at-1968-candies-foods-and-other-snacks-we-ve-been-eating-for/article_0ba87046-8a03-11e8-97f4-5f775df0ca43.html |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=Tri-County Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |others=*Smuckers Official Account Posts, Commemorating the products 1968 launch.* |title=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=522568194475480&id=117266245005679&set=a.153214708077499 |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=www.facebook.com}}</ref> It consists of alternating vertical stripes of peanut butter and either grape or strawberry flavored jelly, or chocolate. There is also a Goober variant that consists of alternating vertical stripes of honey and chocolate.
==Similar products== A similar product is sold by Kroger under their subsidiary Ralphs brand name as: '''Yipes! Stripes!''' under Kroger's Disney Magic Selections label.
== See also == * {{Portal inline|Food}}
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==External links== * [https://www.smuckers.com/peanut-butter/goober Smucker's Goober home page]
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Category:Brand name condiments Category:Honey Category:Peanut butter brands Category:Products introduced in 1968 Category:The J.M. Smucker Co. brands
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