PB & Genius

By Todd Stadler · Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:41am

It's the Classic American Story, involving a Boy and his Sandwich.

You know how it goes. Boy stays up late working on web site. Boy gets up later in the morning than he had planned. Due to boy's sleepiness, ideal lunch-making conditions are not met. Boy forges on, finds a new way of doing things, changes the world one sandwich at a time, and finds true love.

You see, when I went to make sandwiches this morning, the bread was still in the freezer (for to keep it mold-free). But I wanted unfrozen bread (for to eat in a pleasant manner).

Lacking the time to really care, I simply made some PB&J sandwiches with the frozen bread, hoping that things would work out in the end, as they so often do, at least in short narratives like this one.

And work out they did! The frozen bread actually made it easier to spread my rather tenacious peanut butter without destroying the bread. And it was highly smoosh-resistant in my backpack, meaning I arrived at work with sandwiches just as I had made them. By the time lunchtime rolled around, the sandwiches had completely thawed, making for a completely happy PB&J experience.

Ron Popeil himself could not tell a better success story.

Rather than keep this technique a secret, I have decided to embrace the paradigms of the future and go open source with my methods, with the hopes that they can be improved further.

PB&J forever, my friends!