But, this post...well, let the rant begin.
I'm not a parent.
I've never personally experienced the effort it takes to get a handful of toddlers ready for a carpool.
Nor do I know the *fun* of smearing peanut butter in a child's hair in an attempt to remove a clump of gum with one hand, juggling a phone call with the other hand, while packing lunches...with the third?
But...COME ON!
Trader Joe's sells celery pre-loaded with peanut butter?
(Some of it's recalled, BTW.)

I just going to call it as I see it.
This is not busy-ness.
We are not too BUSY to smear peanut butter in celery.
We are too LAZY.
It's contemptible.
I can forgive "Uncrustables."
(Which as of this date are NOT part of the recall.)
If I REACH, making a PB & J involves opening 2 jars, (only 1 if you already bought Smucker's Goober grape) dirtying 2 spoons, reaching for 1 ziplock bag, and disposing of the paper towel which you used to wipe the crumbs off the counter.
But, buying pre-packaged peanut butter-filled celery?
That means you were too lazy to wash the celery and smear peanut butter in it.
To those who buy pre-loaded celery:
Good thing TiVo allows you to order a Domino's pizza directly from your TV.
Because, seriously, I'm concerned you-
just.
might.
starve.
Okay, well, I'm done.
Tomorrow I'll be bright and smiley.
But, today?
J'accuse.


2 comments:
People are lazy!! Can I just say that I can make a PBJ in about 35 seconds flat....oh yeah...you know why....cause I have probably made literally thousands of them since my kids were born. I make at least 4 a week on average between the 2 kids. I just can't get over what people will buy!
Actually, while the uncrustables make me role my eyes, I can see buying the celery thing.
I think cutting the crusts off is too much indulgence and would never do it for a child. So I certainly wouldn't buy a product that did it for him, and almost certainly used cheap white bread, which I would never do.
OTH, washing and cutting celery, then stuffing it with peanut butter, is probably a little more work than making a PB&J. But it's not about the work. It's the fact that there's no good way to package peanut-butter stuffed celery so that it comes out as something my child would eat after being tossed around in his lunch bag for half the day. Dropping it in a ziplock certainly wouldn't do it. The packaging in the picture looks like it would work.
And I do have to say that if you try being a parent in a family with both parents working full time and 3 kids to get off to school, you might be surprised at hom much pre-packaged stuff you'd be willing to use.
In my house, I don't even get them off -- their Dad has to do it because I leave before 6 a.m. So any lunch that gets packed is done by a man. And I get home at 5:30 and immediately have to start preparing dinner and get us all fet & cleanup done, often in time to take a kid to an activity. So I take any convenience I can get.
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