I just saw PB Slices on my local news. Cool idea, but I don’t think I shall ever partake. I love peanut butter. No, I worship it. Peanut butter is my ramen. Cheap, quick and yummy.
But this just doesn’t look like peanut butter should look. From what I could see on the report, it is a little hard to peel off of the cellophane, and what you do get has those stiff american cheese corners. One of the selling points is that since it requires no spreading, it will not tear your bread. What are people doing for peanut butter to tear bread?! It belongs in the pantry, folks. Don’t refrigerate your peanut butter!
You know, a long time ago, on this very message board, I proposed the idea of pre-measured peanut butter sticks (just like sticks of margarine) that you could use for recipes, because peanut butter is so hard to measure. The only hurdles I could see were making the peanut butter firmer and making a wrapper that would “let go” of the yummy peanutty contents.
It appears they’ve overcome these hurdles. So, how about it, science?
Using a measuring cup small enough to fit into the jar, scoop the peanut butter towards you so it curls up inside the measuring cup. Once it’s more than full, scrape a knife across the top of the cup to get an even measure, then scrape it out with a spatula.
Put one cup of water into a pint or quart measuring cup. Drop globs of peanut butter into the cup until the water rises to 1 cup plus however much peanut butter you need. I learned this trick for measuring butter and shortening, but it should work for peanut butter, too.
Peanut Butter Technology™ has always been a difficult and demanding field to master, along with quantuum mechanics and nuclear detonators. Thanks goodness somebody cares.
Seriously, I know that education in this country leaves a lot to be desired, but if your kid can’t figure out peanut butter, it’s time to take him back and get a refund.
What I would love to see is cream cheese packaged this way. I always put too much on my morning bagel and it squeezes out the edges when I take a bite, inevitably frosting the ends of my mustache with white droplets that are too easily misunderstood.
For that matter, why not make bagels that are straight and stick-shaped instead of the traditional torus? Then you could just fold the cream-cheese slice in half, pop it on there, and you’re good to go.
And I like MY peanut butter the way I like MY women: Chunky, with a little extra peanut oil.
Actually, I heard on the radio the other morning that they do have jam in slices. Well, not jam by itself, it’s half peanut butter, half jam. Perfect for people who love PB&J sandwiches, but can’t waste the time or effort to make one the “old-fashioned” way. :rolleyes:
Ahh peanut butter in slices. Why just yesterday I said to myself “Self, there must be yet another way I can slackass more. Why do I have to go to all the trouble of actually spreading peanut butter when I can flob on a individual slice of peanut butter without all that wasted energy”
Sheesh, they already tried mixing pb and j in one jar and look what it got us…Goober’s. Vile concoction so bad the dog would not eat it.
Oh yea, did you hear the punchline for this miracle invention. The guys that invented it took 3 YEARS to come up with it. 3 YEARS people for a cheese slice of peanut butter. Jebus!
The only use I see for them, really, is to sit around and nibble on them like I do on cheese slices. It would get me a lot fewer (see? Not less, but fewer) strange looks than a spoon and a jar of pb would :).
Not that I support this new development, mind you, but this product isn’t really being targeted at lazy adults, but at parents. With these slices, parents can now tell their children to make their own darn PBJs without having to face the resulting smears of peanut butter on the bread, on the counter, on the family dog, tracked across the carpeting, tangled in the child’s hair, gooped onto doorknobs, and magically transmuted through walls into rooms where the child hasn’t even gone.
Not that bad an idea, though I will never buy it, myself.
