Monday, October 17, 2011

Food for (a grad student's) thought

Apparently peanut butter prices are about to go through the fuckin' roof.


But what will grad students eat?  Sure, it's all caviar and champagne for me now that I'm a high-paid PUI prof (ha), but I can still remember my PB&J days.

4 comments:

Cath@VWXYNot? said...

I was listening to a podcast the other day (I think it was Dispatches, from the CBC) about how peanuts are the most important component of a paste called PlumpyNut that they use to treat severely malnourished children in famine zones. The manufacturer (a small company that doesn't want to sell out to any of the big guys just yet) were already having problems meeting the demand for the product, which apparently works miracles, and now they're truly hooped. I hope they can find an alternative soon.

(found it! It was Dispatches, which I whole heartedly recommend by the way.

Anonymous said...

Ramen, of course!

biochemist_on_the_run said...

Luckily, I've already stocked up with a giant tub of peanut butter.

Anthea said...

Ack..what are students supposed to eat any more? I loathe Ramen. I tried to eat it as an alternative but I had to revert to the PBandJ.