toddcast

I don’t like peanut butter.   Some people get very upset when I tell them that.   It’s nothing personal.   It's not a character flaw.   I just don’t like it.   I don’t even like the smell of it.   My mother told me I ate a lot of peanut butter when I was young, so maybe I just reached my limit.    My two daughters, however, do like peanut butter and that caused a bit of a problem. When they were elementary school age I would on occasion make their lunches and one of their favorites was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I dutifully made their sandwiches making sure that I would use the knife first in the jelly, which I like, so that there would be no peanut butter residue in the jelly jar.   I abhorred (that may be a little strong, but you know the feeling) when I would put jelly on my toast and detect that faint but distinct taste of peanut butter that was a result of some careless peanut butter lover contaminating my jelly with a...