I discovered a while back that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are not a world renowned custom. This made me very sad. So, as an experiment in cultural exchange, I brought peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for everybody at the business I intern at. It was just so funny to me how foreign of an object a PB&J sandwich was to them. Example:
"What is this?"
"A peanut butter and jelly sandwich"
"A what?..oh like from the movies...doesn't it make you fat?"
"No, it's like natural, ya know?"
"When do you eat this? At lunch?"
"Yeah, for lunch"
"Hrmm...it's really sweet...look at the bottle, it's huge!!! Why do they sell things in such big containers???"
"Haha! I don't know!"
I had to explain and re-explain the concept of peanut butter many times. Explained that it was generally considered a simple kids food. I still don't really get how peanut butter could be considered sweet, but hey whatever!
I guess the point to this story is that I used my knowledge of peanut butter for a lunch of cultural exchange. At the end, some liked it, some didn't. But, at the very least, a good time was had by all!
The End.
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