I was reading an interview in Fortune magazine with this guy who has invented sliced peanut butter (think Kraft Singles). It is being test marketed in Wal-mart (no surprise).
Have we become that lazy that we can’t even take a knife out and spread our own peanut butter? So who cares that spreading may cause bread “breakage.” That’s the beauty of a handmade PBJ sammich.
Now topping the list of Things That Make The Baby Jesus Cry… :eek:
nexy up:
sliced jelly…
Well, let’s see…
Presliced cheese was considered too much of a convenience when it was introduced.
Next came pre-sliced cream cheese - I’ve seen the Philly Cheese slices in the supermarket.
It only stands to reason that pre-sliced PB would be next. But where will it stop? Bread individually wrapped? Slices of Jelly? It’s just another thing to make our grocery bills skyrocket.
I wonder how many people would actually buy 16 slices of peanutbutter at $2.50 when they can get a jar of store brand PB a lot cheaper?
This thread is lacking sufficient moral outrage.
The problem with pre-sliced, individually-wrapped process peanut butter food is that you can’t sit on the sofa watching movies eating it until your tummy feels like one big lump of play-doh and your tongue falls out.
Sandwiches? Grow the hell up, people. Grown-ups eat peanut butter straight out of the jar with a big-ass spoon and a lowball glass full of milk.
There, that’s better.
dammit, KneadToKnow, you forgot the bag of chocolate chips for dipping…
ooh, don’t get me started on ‘convenience’ foods.
What’s convenient about a pale, rubbery slice of pseudocheese?
[sup]and why do they have to call it ‘cheese food’? - no, rabbit food is what rabbits eat, dog food is what dogs eat, so cheese food must be what cheese eats, hmmm[/sup]
And sliced PB? WHERE EXACTLY LIES THE CONVENIENCE??? - you don’t have to wash up a knife, whoopeee!, oh except that if you wanted butter on the bread as well, or Jam(jelly), then you had to use a knife anyway, sigh oh isn’t life painfully inconvenient?
I saw an article about how some supermarkets here in the UK were going to start selling pre-peeled oranges. ORANGES!!
“Ever the busy executive, I have no time in my hectic schedule to peel an orange” - WHAT!!??!! - I’m surprised you don’t just get one of your underpaid employees to peel it for you.
grrrr.
Since those folks are trying to simplify our lives, Beer on a stick or patch comes to mind…
Hmmm…a beer patch…I’m going to have to get to work on that.
Beer on a stick is no good though, way too much work, way too little satisfaction
I like my peanut butter with orange juice. Is that gross?
caveman,
[Sam Kinison voice]
Good answer … I like the way you think! I’m gonna be keepin’ an eye on you.
[/Sam Kinison voice]
I hate to be the sole dissenting voice, but I like the idea of slapping a slice of peanut butter on my sandwich.
Maybe they’ll do the goober-grape thing and make slices of PB&J, too.
[Richard Dawson in Running Man voice] I’ll buy that for a dollar! [/]
To me, there’s little difference between this, and buying a pre-made sandwich, so what’s the fuss?
I like extra chunky PB - ain’t no way that’s gonna be made into a pre-fabbed slice. And anyway, I like my PB outta the jar as it should be. I don’t buy “processed cheese-food-like-substances” and I won’t buy PB slices.
Sorry, folks, but they’ve already got you covered. Go buy some Welch’s grape jelly in the new squeeze bottles. The opening in the top of the bottle is slot-shaped, so you can just draw the whole bottle across the bread and lay down a ribbon of jelly.
My mom bought me a package of this just before I left for college. It actually included the jelly, eliminating yet another step in the difficult process of making a peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
The only thing I could find to do with it was to cut it into quarters and put it on crackers. Otherwise, you’d have to use two of the damn things to make a decent sandwich. I mean, come on, the thing has to be goopy!
Christ, when did we get so lazy?
Actually, in the early years of Ben and Jerry’s they made beer sorbet. At a fair they were set up next to a hot dog vendor and realized that no one wanted ice cream and hot dogs at the same time, so they whipped up some beer sorbet and put it in cones for people to carry around.
Coming soon?
sliced jelly? jam in a bottle?
dang it, it just isn’t gooey fruit goodness if it isn’t in a glass jar with a big-ass metal latch on the side of the lid!
also, it isn’t cheese unless it’s spent the last year in a cave, and before that at least a little time in a ruminant!
I’m picturing that Futurama episode where Fry got a box of Oreos that he had to assemble himself: Unwrap the top cookie. Unwrap the filling. Unwrap the bottom cookie. Put all three in a vise, which was positioned above a mound of discarded tinfoil bags, and squoosh them together. Mm-MM!