What's the best "and"?

[Gori the Grey]

Peanut Butter and Jelly?
Surf and Turf?
Fish and Chips?
Gin and Tonic?
Rock and Roll?
Key and Peele?
Lux et Veritas?

What's the best combination of things connected by "and" in a conventional phrase (i.e. not just two things that you stick together with "and")?

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Rum and coke

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Not saying this is definitely better than anything you listed, since you have plenty of winners in there, but I think fun and games is a contender.

 

[schlaufuchs]

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Sticks and stones.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The term for what you are seeking is Siamese Twin. A few of my favorites are

• science and technology (that or R&D)
  
• command and conquer
• divide et impera
• shock and awe
• search and destroy
  
• pomp and circumstance
• suit and tie

 

[Kyriakos]

Dulce et decorum

 

[Synobun]

Tuna and bacon.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Tuna and bacon.

No wonder you need supplements.

 

[Perfection]

Pain and Suffering

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Tuna and bacon.

Lettuce and Tomato (I don't do bacon)
Fish and Chips
Toast and Jam

 

[Synobun]

No wonder you need supplements.

Hey man, don't knock it 'til you try it. Stuff's the bomb diggity. They contrast each other really well.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Hey man, don't knock it 'til you try it. Stuff's the bomb diggity. They contrast each other really well.

I'm sure they do. But I don't like tuna and can't eat bacon.

 

[Truthy]

Stars and stripes

 

[El_Machinae]

The term for what you are seeking is Siamese Twin. A few of my favorites are

• science and technology (that or R&D)
  
• command and conquer
• divide et impera
• shock and awe
• search and destroy
  
• pomp and circumstance
• suit and tie

This is great! Thanks for posting this!

Some English words are known to have become obsolete in general but are still found exclusively in an irreversible binomial. In the passage of time since spick and span was coined, the origin and meaning of the word spick has been utterly forgotten; it has become a fossil word that never appears outside the familiar phrase

 

[Commodore]

Death and taxes.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Pins and needles. Apples and oranges.

 

[timtofly]

this and that

 

[BenitoChavez]

Salt and Pepper
Peas and Carrots
Meat and Potatoes
Bread and Butter

...I think I'm hungry

 

[Timsup2nothin]

So and so.