March 2012
1 post
March 1st
Happy National Peanut Butter Lovers Day!
February 2012
29 posts
Peanut Butter and Donuts
Peanut Butter and Donuts (AKA I-just-had-too-much-sugar-and-I-can’t-count-to-ten!)
Taste: 10
Mouthfeel: 8
Combo: 9
Pre-rating: 9
Difference between pre- and post-rating: 0
Would eat again? Yep. Right after I teach my students what “1-10” means.
At the end of a good math class today, I treated my students to tastes of today’s sandwich, peanut butter and donut. I had...
Peanut Butter and Salt
Peanut Butter and Salt
Taste: 5
Mouthfeel: 4
Combo: 6
Pre-rating: 7
Difference between pre-rating and post-rating: -1
Would eat again? My body’s saying no but my brain is saying let’s go. Or maybe its the other way around…?
This might as well have been peanut butter and sand, the way it felt in my mouth. Or peanut butter and glass filings. Or peanut butter and dirt. The...
Peanut Butter and Butter
Peanut Butter and Butter
Taste: 8
Mouthfeel: 9
Combo: 7
Pre-rating: 2
Difference between pre-rating and post-rating: +5
Would eat again? yes, but without the butter…
When I first thought of this sandwich, I thought slabs of cold butter laid closely together across the peanut butter. For example, like someone might do if they eat a stick of butter a day as a diet to improve mental...
Peanut Butter and Wasabi
Peanut Butter and Wasabi
Taste: 10
Mouthfeel: 9
Combo: 10
Pre-rating: 9
Difference between pre-rating and post-rating: +1
Would eat again? YES. I’d eat it again tomorrow if I didn’t have to eat peanut butter and butter.
It was peanut butter with a kick in the face. A very welcome kick I mean, specifically in the sinuses. Take a bite and you taste the peanut butter first, but...
Peanut Butter and Chia Seeds
Peanut Butter and Chia Seeds
Taste: 9.5
Mouthfeel: 10
Combo: 9.5
Pre-rating: 6
Difference between pre- and post- rating: +3.5
Would eat again? Yeah I would, once I find out what chia seeds actually are.
This sandwich was delicious, but I’m not quite sure what I just ate. The chia seeds looked like miniature dinosaur eggs and/or bird food. The only association I have with the word...
Peanut Butter and Cheez-Its
Peanut Butter and Cheez-Its
Taste: 9
Mouthfeel: 8
Combo: 9
Pre-rating: 7.5
Difference between pre- and post-ratings: +1.5
Would eat again? Sure.
The funnest thing about this sandwich was definitely deciding how to tile the cheez-its on the peanut butter. When the sandwich had been properly designed and photographed, I put on its top layer of bread and took a bite. It was instantly...
Peanut Butter and Vienna Sausage
Peanut Butter and Vienna Sausage
Taste: 2
Mouthfeel: 0
Combo: 1
Pre-rating: 0.5
Difference between pre- and post-ratings: +0.5
Would eat again: Never. Ew. Vienna should be ashamed of itself.
No those aren’t my fingers in the picture. Fingers might have tasted better actually. And yes I know those look very much like another part of the body too. Insert dirty joke here:...
Peanut Butter and Cinnamon
Peanut Butter and Cinnamon
Taste: 7 for a sprinkling of cinnamon, 1 for a tablespoon of it
Mouthfeel: 3
Combo: see taste.
Pre-rating: 1 (I generally don’t like cinnamon and was picturing a whole tablespoons worth.
Difference between pre- and post-ratings: +7 or 0, depending on how you look at it.
Would eat again? Yep! With just a wee bit o’ cinnamon sprinkled or mixed in...
Peanut Butter and Doritos
Peanut Butter and Doritos
Taste: 6
Mouthfeel: 7
Combo: 5
Pre-rating: 5.5
Difference between pre- and post-ratings: -0.5
Would eat again? Don’t see the point. Eat em separately and salvage a delicious bag o’ chips. Or just eat an apple.
The crunch was great, the dusty cheese not so much. They didn’t blend well at all. Though the designer of this sandwich had great...
Peanut Butter and Raisin Bran
Peanut Butter and Raisin Bran
Taste: 8
Mouthfeel: 9
Combo: 9.5
Pre-rating: 9.5
Difference between pre- and post-ratings: 0 right on the money.
Would eat again: Yeah!
Delicious. Crunchy. Not much to say about this one, but I might add raisin bran to normal PBJs. I think most cereals would be a hit, because of the crunch and sweetness factor. Two thumbs up.
Peanut Butter and Hot Sauce
Peanut Butter and Hot Sauce
Taste: 0
Mouthfeel: 2
Combo: 0
Pre-rating: 9.5
Difference between pre- and post-ratings: - 9.5 (RECORD DROP!)
Would eat again? I’d rather be waterboarded with hot sauce.
First of all, I went super hard-core on this one, which was a terrible mistake. I poured all (1-2 oz) of the hot sauce onto the peanut butter. I thought maybe I should eat every bit...
Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Cream Pie
Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Cream Pie
Taste: 9.5
Mouthfeel: 7
Combo: 9
Pre-rating: 5
Difference between pre- and post-ratings: +4
Would eat again: Yes, as a finger sandwich, or if I was trying to get diabetes or something that might let me skip work for awhile.
How could I have pre-rated this a 5? It’s sugar, icing, and carbs. All 30+ ingredients and 310 calories of it. This was...
Peanut Butter and Baby Food Peas
Peanut Butter and Baby Food Peas
Taste: 4
Mouthfeel: 3
Combo: 4
Pre-rating: 6
Difference between pre- and post-ratings: -2
Would eat again? No.
Baby food peas taste like airy lint, slightly pea-flavored, I discovered. There was no substance to them at all, just air and mush. They didn’t blend with the peanut butter, a little like water doesn’t blend with oil, but mostly...
Peanut Butter and Old Bay
Peanut Butter and Old Bay
Mouthfeel: 5
Taste: 7
Combo: 7
Pre-rating: 5
Difference between pre-rating and post-rating: +2
Would eat again: Yeah. Maybe with a little less Old Bay. I powdered that thing heavy.
This sandwich was spicy and intriguing once you chew it for a slightly extended period. Instead of swallowing when you normally feel like “ok its swallow time,”...
Peanut Butter and Gummy Hearts
<3 Peanut Butter and Gummy Hearts <3
Mouthfeel: 3
Taste: 6
Combo: 6
Pre-rating: 7 (didn’t realize there was juice in the middle…)
Difference between pre-rating and post-rating: -1
Would eat again: Would eat ingredients separately, should be kept over half an hour apart in any meal.
Biting into this sandwich is like biting something fleshy. Your teeth sink...
Peanut Butter and Honey Mustard
Peanut Butter and Honey Mustard
Mouthfeel: 6
Taste: 3
Combo: 7 (after the first taste)
Pre-rating: 3
Difference between pre-rating and post-rating: +4
Would eat again: Only if I could skip the initial taste…
At first bite, this sandwich is terrible, (especially if you hate honey mustard). But when you get past the sickly sweet first taste of the mustard and head into...
Peanut Butter and Pink Sprinkles
Taste: 6
Mouthfeel: 3
Combo: 4
Pre-rating: 8.
Difference between pre-rating and post-rating: -4
Would eat again? No, and here’s why:
This sandwich left me wondering what in the world I just ate. Peanut butter, sure. Bread, fine. But there was some non-food item crunching along in there like little turds of mouse poop. I did a little research, and I think I may actually rather eat...
Peanut Butter and Garlic (AKA: Brush After Eating)
Taste: 7
Mouthfeel: 7
Combo: 8
Pre-rating: 3
Difference between pre- and post-ratings: +5
Would eat again? Yeah actually. Especially if I was feeling a little sick or if I wanted to ward off a vampire.
This was definitely a pleasant, spicy surprise. As I chopped the garlic I was feeling pretty adventurous, brave, and self-awed. I was about to eat garlic on...
Peanut Butter and Cranberries
Taste: 2
Mouthfeel: 2
Combo: 4
Pre-rating: 2
Difference between pre-rating and combo: +2
Would eat again: NO.
Shuaib came up with the concept for this sandwich, so thanks to him for the creativity and no thanks to him for disrupting my lunch with its awful taste. When I think cranberry I just think of cranberry sauce— in particular I think of the mouthfeel of the wavy lines from the...
Peanut Butter and Cookie Butter
(sorry for the focus issues on this picture — shuaib’s leg and tatiyana’s referral are in focus but the darn sandwich isnt!)
Taste: 9
Mouthfeel: 5
Combo: 8
Pre-ranking: 5 (I think it was the disgusting idea of cookie butter that got me)
Difference between pre and post-ranking: +3
Would I eat again: Sure, on a day when all I ate besides this was salad.
Shuaib had a really...
Peanut Butter and Ham
Peanut Butter and Ham
Taste: 5
Mouthfeel: 4
Combo: 4
Pre-rating: 6
Difference between pre-rating and post-rating (combo): -2 Would eat again? Maybe at an Orthodox dinner… (see below) I have a tummyache. It’s all rumbly and weird. At first I was like huh, why is my stomach hurting? And then I was like Oh, maybe its because I just ate a peanut butter and HAM sandwich. EW. To...
Peanut Butter and Ranch Dressing
Peanut Butter and Ranch Dressing
Taste: 4
Mouthfeel: 7
Combo: 6
Pre-ranking: 1
Difference between pre-ranking and post-ranking (combo): +5
Would eat again: Yeah, actually. Maybe toasted. On the side of a plate of buffalo wings.
This one was surprising. I thought it was going to be absolutely disgusting. I was dreading it. It was my gross example of the disgustingness I will go...
Peanut Butter and Peanut Butter M&Ms
Peanut Butter and Peanut Butter M&Ms
Taste: 8
Combo: 7
Mouthfeel: 5
Pre-rating: 9.5
Difference between pre-rating and post-rating (combo): -2.5
Would eat again: Yes, but I’d stick my tongue into the sandwich like a frog and snag those sweet little M&Ms and gobble them all up out of there before I ate the PB and bread.
Lower scores than I would have thought. The bread...
Peanut Butter and Mango
Peanut Butter and Mango
Taste: 6
Mouthfeel: 3
Combo: 4
Pre-rating: 9
Difference between pre-rating and post-rating: -5
Would eat again: maybe with a less sloppy mango. Or on french bread. Or not at all, if I had a choice.
I had really high expectations for this one, because I love mango. But then I ate it and thought “maybe I just tell myself I love mango, but I really...
Peanut Butter and Cream Cheese
Peanut Butter and Cream Cheese
Taste: 6
Mouthfeel: 4
Combo: 5
Pre-rating: 8
Difference between pre-rating and post-tasting combo rating: -3
Would eat again: If I had to.
Eating peanut butter and cream cheese feels like running through waist-high mud. It’s thick and choking and requires a lot of mouthwork to slog through. Somehow the peanut butter and cream cheese acted...
Peanut Butter and Maple Syrup
Peanut Butter and Maple Syrup
Mouthfeel: 6
Taste: 7
Combo: 8
Pre-rating: 9.5
Difference between pre-rating and post-tasting combo rating: -1.5
Would I eat again? Sure, if pancakes weren’t available for the syrup. And pears weren’t available for the PB….
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Peanut Butter and Avocado
Peanut Butter and Avocado
Mouthfeel: 5
Taste: 7
Combo: 5
Pre-rating: 8
Difference between pre-rating and post-tasting combo rating: -3
Would eat again: If peanut butter and avocado were the only two things left in my fridge, I’d probably eat them separately. Though if someone in this imaginary world-where-I’d-ever-let-my-fridge-contain-only-PB-and-avocado told me...
January 2012
31 posts
Apologies
I realize I am many days behind. Tomorrow night look for peanut butter post-a-thon.
Peanut Butter and Sour Patch Kids
Day Twenty-Seven: Peanut Butter and Sour Patch Kids
Mouth Feel: 10
Taste: 10
Combo: 10
Would eat again? Yes
Pre-Ranking:?
Really? A perfect score?! I know what you’re thinking: “That sounds gross.” But you are, of course, incorrect. I can say-without hyperbole-that this sandwich was the most magnificent creation in human history (with two obvious exceptions: hot sauce and the...
Day Twenty-Six: Peanut Butter and Flaming-Hot Cheetos
Mouth Feel: 9
Taste: 10
Combo: 9
Would eat again? Yes
Pre-Ranking: 1
This was great on several levels: crunchy, spicy, yada, yada, you get it. No big surprise here. But I think we’ve stumbled on to something important here with the peanut butter and spicy stuff. Something about the two works together so well. Like Paula Abdul and that...
Celebrate!
It’s National Peanut Butter Day everyone!
