Actually, it only gave us the word. Pondering and sharing my hatred for the red slop required that I type ketchup repeatedly in recent days. That started me wondering how such an unusual word found its way into our fair language. My hefty NOAD tells me it has Cantonese origin: k'ē chap = tomato juice. Merriam-Webster traces it farther South: kĕchap
French fries often swim before they die -- but in what? Mark argues against ketchup and in favor of mayo, while Dan draws his fry dipping approach from his 6th grade art teacher.
Some of you have already weighed in on bread selection, sides, toasting, and of course, crunchy v. smooth peanut butter. Bacon, Nutella, banana, marshmallow, dill relish, and mayo have all gotten vigorous defenses as PB companions. But we want to know more.
Chicago, IL, 2:42 pm. Deep dish stuffed pizza from Giordano's -- Half mushroom, half spinach.
Sporkful Outtake: The Striped Pb&J Jar by The Sporkful Listen on Posterous Sometimes we have to edit fun morsels out of a show, but when we think they're still good enough to share, we post them here as outtakes. Here's a bit of the PB&J show that we had to cut. Listen to the whole episode here, and remember to share your
We managed to do our latest episode on PB&J with zero references tohe now-elderly internet meme Peanut Butter Jelly Time. (C'mon, don't say you've forgotten so soon.) It's the right call, and besides, I have always had a soft spot for another song from the Buckwheat Boyz, perhaps their only other song: "Ice Cream and Cake." Like PBJT and The Sporkful,
This peanut butter and jelly show is Part One of our two-part series on Peanut Butter Sandwiches. In two weeks we'll get into all the other sweet and savory peanut butter sandwich accompaniments out there.