I made a Peanut Butter and Jelly (PB&J) sandwich last night as a snack before bed, and as I was making it, I thought about the effort I was going through to do it.
First I got out a paper plate to build the sandwich on, and then eat from. Then I got out two slices of bread, the peanut butter, the jelly, a knife and a spoon... I like my sandwiches toasted, so I put the slices of bread in the toaster and then opened the PB and J, placed the knife on top of the PB jar. I opened the grape jelly and put the spoon on the upside down lid on the counter. When the toast popped, I took the first slice out, and coated it evenly with peanut butter, and put the excess from the knife back into the jar. Then I got the second slice from the toaster, and plopped a spoonful of jelly on the slice and spread it with the back of the spoon. Then I put the two slices together, put everything away, got a napkin and a drink and started chowing down.
As I was doing all of that I realized that making a PB&J sandwich, which is really easy, has to be done a certain way. I thought about why I did the peanut butter first? Why didn't I put both the PB and J on the same slice when I was making it? Why did I use both a knife and a spoon? Why make this simple task so complicated?
Well then I wondered... Am I the only one that makes it this way? How do other people make their PB&J sandwiches? Do they just slop it all together, or do they do it a special way? Do you put the peanut butter or jelly on first? Do you toast it? Do you mix the two on the same slice? Do you use only one slice of bread and fold it over? Do you like a special bread for PB&J? What about the jelly? Do you use jam or marmalade? Do you use a knife, fork, spoon, fingers or some combination to make the sandwich?
The Smucker's company that makes Jelly and Jam is fighting a legal battle to "patent" a special technique to make a PB&J so the jelly doesn't soak the bread. These must be very important questions, and I want to know what is the best way, no, the perfect way to make a PB&J?
Ramblings for readers, who enjoy a person rambling on about nothing, or something, depending the mood of the person rambling, or the mood of the reader who finds something worth reading about, or possibly rambling on about themselves in a comment to the rambling... I could go on, but I think I have made my point!
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
PB&J
I made a Peanut Butter and Jelly (PB&J) sandwich last night as a snack before bed, and as I was making it, I thought about the effort I was going through to do it.
First I got out a paper plate to build the sandwich on, and then eat from. Then I got out two slices of bread, the peanut butter, the jelly, a knife and a spoon... I like my sandwiches toasted, so I put the slices of bread in the toaster and then opened the PB and J, placed the knife on top of the PB jar. I opened the grape jelly and put the spoon on the upside down lid on the counter. When the toast popped, I took the first slice out, and coated it evenly with peanut butter, and put the excess from the knife back into the jar. Then I got the second slice from the toaster, and plopped a spoonful of jelly on the slice and spread it with the back of the spoon. Then I put the two slices together, put everything away, got a napkin and a drink and started chowing down.
As I was doing all of that I realized that making a PB&J sandwich, which is really easy, has to be done a certain way. I thought about why I did the peanut butter first? Why didn't I put both the PB and J on the same slice when I was making it? Why did I use both a knife and a spoon? Why make this simple task so complicated?
Well then I wondered... Am I the only one that makes it this way? How do other people make their PB&J sandwiches? Do they just slop it all together, or do they do it a special way? Do you put the peanut butter or jelly on first? Do you toast it? Do you mix the two on the same slice? Do you use only one slice of bread and fold it over? Do you like a special bread for PB&J? What about the jelly? Do you use jam or marmalade? Do you use a knife, fork, spoon, fingers or some combination to make the sandwich?
The Smucker's company that makes Jelly and Jam is fighting a legal battle to "patent" a special technique to make a PB&J so the jelly doesn't soak the bread. These must be very important questions, and I want to know what is the best way, no, the perfect way to make a PB&J?
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Wow, that's kinda rediculous. I mean, who thinks that there is actually a "perfect" way to make a PB&J sandwich, honestly, there is no such thing as perfection. By the way, you take way too much effort to make a sandwich...lol
ReplyDeleteSo tell me... How do you make a PB&J?
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