Consumer review: Kouryou-chan turns down peanut butter & jelly.

[elfs]

Yesterday we all trekked out to the grocery store for the weekly shopping, and in one of the aisles a woman was cutting up Smucker's Uncrustables with a pair of scissors and offering samples to passersby. These Uncrustables are plastic-bagged peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, molded into round flying saucers of spongy, soft white bread with their edges pinched shut: no mess, no fuss, the perfect 1950s food in so many ways. How sad for Smuckers that it's 2006.

Kouryou-chan is a peanut butter & jelly fiend, one of those six-year-olds who seems to live solely on the stuff. She's also a menace to grocery store sample stands, and begged me if she could try one. I said she could go ahead.

She took one bite and the expression on her face reflected immediate and palpable disgust. She took the half-bitten sandwich out of her mouth and stared at it: peanut butter & jelly had betrayed her. "Don't like it?" I asked. She shook her head, then started to look about. Her eyes settled on the trash can behind the sampling station, and she quickly disposed of the offending manufactured food item. "I guess we're not buying those, huh?" I said.

"Nope. Blechh!"

Comments

[rfreebern.livejournal.com]

Kouryou-chan is my hero!

[casualprofessor.livejournal.com]

I've never been prouder of my kids than the day when they said they didn't like that cake because it "was too sweet".

Fortunately, my kids have outgrown begging for the Lunchables and other pre-packaged kid-food.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*nods* right up there with the first grader going over and turning off the TV because there was nothing appropriate on to watch.

I think he even went outside to play.

[yohannon.livejournal.com]

I'd say something like "From the mouths of babes", but that's too obvious.

~Y~

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that Smucker's has done something poorly that's been a minor staple of camping food for decades. Pie irons -- which come in a variety of designs (also known as 'hobo pie irons') have been around for decades; I first saw one more than thirty years ago when I was in the Boy Scouts, and they weren't new then. The round designs, which pinch off the crust and seal the edges, produce the same result as the Uncrustables, with being able to heat and toast it as well.

[ladyerin.livejournal.com]

yum....love making those with cherry pie filling....pizzas done that way are most excellent too.

[woggie.livejournal.com]

What was wrong with it? Too much of something, or a weird aftertaste or what?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

From my own tasting, I'd say the peanut butter was too dry, the jam too processed, and the bread too Wonderbread like. Too mushy, not the texture she's used to at home.

[woggie.livejournal.com]

What is overprocessed jam like? No texture?

[warstoke.livejournal.com]

well even as an adult i enjoy a good pb&j sandwich sometimes
we went to myrtle beach a couple of weeks ago and got some of those nasty buggers at a convenience mart on the way (thought they looked interesting) but low and behold my friend Lyn about wretched upon biting into one. we thought it was just because it was from a gas station. lol
geuss not.
as to how that kind of jam taste imagin more grape butter than jelly or jam if you have had apple butter you know what i mean some people have sensory issues with foods like that.
me i cant eat a large peice of tomato just gives me the goose bumps

[(Anonymous)]

Kouryou-chan is really a hero,to defeat a peanut butter & jelly fiend.Interesting consumer review show.
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