Forget pineapple on pizza, let's talk about PB&J

[Syd-TK3]

With a name like Smucker's

[bondom34]

Raspberry ftw. On waffles. Sometimes chocolate PB if the mood strikes.

[Clementine64]

I eat peanut butter with a spoon daily, it's my guilty pleasure..

It's also the reason I've put on a TON of weight lately. That stuff has an incredibly high amount of calories because of the high fat content.

[Clementine64]

Raspberry ftw. On waffles. Sometimes chocolate PB if the mood strikes.

You can literally put that **** on everything!

[UcanUwill]

Going to let you guys in on a sandwich trade secret I learned from my wife.

And yes I'm putting 10+ years of RealGM reputation on the line.

Spoiler:

Peanut Butter + Jam + Fried Egg. It'll blow your mind.

Throw some oven-baked bacon in there and we are talking. And yes... oven-baked IS better than frying pan bacon!


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Man u guys must be fat lol

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[theonlyeastcoastrapsfan]

Reppin' for all the Islander's. Holy crap we're handsome.

[KingSebastian]

Ok, I tried this last night at a work league game.
Let me give you some background information....
I'm 38, married with 2 toddlers so my game has fallen off a cliff the last 3 years. It was getting depressing not being able to do half the things I used to. The younger players on the team werrnt with the company when I was in my prime so all they hear is non believable stories about my game 8-9 years ago.....But last night, I ate peanut butter and honey on my drive to hoopdome.

I haven't played like this in at least 2 seasons. My mind and nerves were tranquil. My energy level was constant hustle. My timing and footwork was incredible. And my jumper was wet. After the game I had numerous people asking me what got into me....And I will never tell them.

This is my new pre game ritual. I was contemplating retirement before this season started. Now we're in the finals on an undefeated season where I've been playing half assed. If we win our chip next week and I get busy again off the PB&J , I feel I'll be playing in to my 40s

Thanks so much for this read. Changed my life.

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[Sherlock]

Ok, I tried this last night at a work league game.
Let me give you some background information....
I'm 38, married with 2 toddlers so my game has fallen off a cliff the last 3 years. It was getting depressing not being able to do half the things I used to. The younger players on the team werrnt with the company when I was in my prime so all they hear is non believable stories about my game 8-9 years ago.....But last night, I ate peanut butter and honey on my drive to hoopdome.

I haven't played like this in at least 2 seasons. My mind and nerves were tranquil. My energy level was constant hustle. My timing and footwork was incredible. And my jumper was wet. After the game I had numerous people asking me what got into me....And I will never tell them.

This is my new pre game ritual. I was contemplating retirement before this season started. Now we're in the finals on an undefeated season where I've been playing half assed. If we win our chip next week and I get busy again off the PB&J , I feel I'll be playing in to my 40s

Thanks so much for this read. Changed my life.

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No problem brother.

Relevant from the article:

But why? What is it, exactly, about a PB&J?

In dozens of interviews with players, coaches, executives, nutritionists, trainers and others in and around the NBA, the most common explanation offered was the most obvious: PB&J is comfort food, and countless players, like countless other humans, grew up on it. "It's a soothing memory from childhood," Shanahan says. It's "peace of mind," says Brett Singer, a dietitian at the Memorial Hermann Ironman Sports Medicine Institute, who adds: "You feel good, you play well." Brian St. Pierre, director of performance nutrition at Precision Nutrition, who's consulted with the Spurs, says it's not so much a placebo effect but "almost more than that. They just simply believe." Lakers coach Luke Walton has a theory: NBA players are superstitious nuts, especially when it comes to routines. "Athletes are strange people," he says. "We've got weird habits." Walton, now 36 and in his first season leading the Lakers, still downs a PB&J before every game.

Factor in the NBA schedule -- teams flying constantly, red-eyes, bad traffic, rotten night's sleeps -- and on a night-to-night basis, so much is outside a player's control. It's all the more natural to cling all the tighter to something quick, cheap and all but impossible to foul up.

Cute theory. But now let's engage in a little evolutionary anthropology and travel back millennia to when humans began to walk upright and our ancestors developed cravings for certain qualities in hard-to-find calorie-dense foods: fats, sugars, starches, proteins and salts. Today, the smell of these -- even the mere awareness of their proximity -- still triggers a release in humans of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which once provided our ancestors with an energy boost for the hunt, along with serotonin, the "happiness hormone." At first bite of a PB&J, receptors detect the food's chemical composition and report back to the brain -- fats! sugars! starches! proteins! salts! -- where reward centers release opioids and, after a few minutes, endorphins, which briefly reduce stress. It's an effect, St. Pierre notes, that's similar to sex. They also lower the body's heart rate, a bonus for an anxious hunter or a player just before tip-off. "These are the exact same pathways that make heroin addicts chase their next fix," says Dr. Trevor Cottrell, director of human performance for the Memorial Hermann Ironman Sports Medicine Institute.

Heroin, sex ... peanut butter and jelly. You can see why players might revolt if someone tried to take away their PB&J. So are they actually good for you -- or good enough for the physical demands of the most physically taxed athletes on the planet? Perhaps you've seen articles in your Facebook feed about the horrors of sugar and carbs. Within that framework, no, PB&J's aren't great. The typical PB&J contains roughly 400 to 500 calories, 50 grams of carbohydrates, 20 grams of fat and 10 grams of protein. As Jill Lane, a Dallas-based sports nutritionist who has worked with NBA players, says: "It's not the best, but it's not bad."

But nutrition may be beside the point. "Even if we argue that physiologically a PB&J isn't the 'best' pregame meal," St. Pierre says, "that's only true if you think psychology doesn't impact physiology, and we know it does. Your thoughts about a food will actually help to shape how your body reacts to that food." As Stephan J. Guyenet, author of The Hungry Brain, notes, "The brain mostly cares about calories, so plain celery sticks and kale don't release much dopamine and we don't develop cravings for them." Or as Cottrell says: "The brain is a complex organ system that we know very little about. But what we know [about food cravings] alludes to some important neural pathways that are often associated with crack cocaine addiction, believe it or not."

Make that heroin, sex ... and crack cocaine.

If only Rob Ford has discovered PB&J instead of crack...