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EANUT BUTTER AND
jelly sandwiches are
the most basic food a
person can make. Give
a child a plastic knife (you know,
for safety reasons, because we
love children and their precious
little fingers), and your kindergartener can probably make one that
rivals yours. And yet: you’ve been
doing it all wrong.
We have all come to accept the
nature of a PB&J sandwich as inherently soggy, and we’ve come
to expect a streak of red or purple
jam to have bled through our
bread by noon. But that’s only because we’ve been constructing our
sandwiches with sheer stupidity, thus lowering our PB&J standards. It’s time to change this.
We recently discovered there’s a
better way to make peanut butter
and jelly sandwiches. Our readers
are typically jaded to the internet’s
myriad cooking tips, and we expected to find the same when we
told them that by simply spreading
peanut butter on both sides of the
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We have all come to
accept the nature of a PB&J
sandwich as inherently
soggy, and we’ve come to
expect a streak of red or
purple jam to have bled
through our bread by noon.”
bread, they could prevent sandwich
sogginess (because of course, the
sogginess is the jam’s fault). But in
atypical fashion, our readers were
aghast at the years they spent making wrongful PB&Js, and have been
spreading this new gospel to their
friends and loved ones to save them
from a sad PB&J future.
To help further get the word
out, we’ve made the video above to
demonstrate this simple technique,
along with an extra pro tip for those
of you ready to have your
minds completely blown.