Posts featuring Dan Pink’s Pinkcast videos have been a mainstay of my blog for the past year and a half. In fact, this is my 23rd such post.
The first 22 posts included topics such as:
- What If?? Mental Subtraction of Positive Events
- Creating a Book of Small Experiments
- Better Feedback in Just 19 Words
- A Simple, but Powerful, Bedtime Routine
- The Power of Two, Two-Minute Rules (in Less Than Two Minutes)
- The 10-5 Rule for Civility
- Working in a Red Light District May Boost Your Productivity
- Follow Your Passion? Nah, Try This Instead.
In each one, I was a big fan of the message Dan was trying to get across.
However, I cannot say the same thing for his latest Pinkcast, released today. He refers to it as how to make the perfect pandemic lunch.
The video starts off strong, putting peanut butter on a piece of bread, but then it goes quickly downhill after that.
Next comes pickles. Are you serious? I can’t think of anything more disgusting to put on a peanut butter sandwich (or any sandwich for that matter).
Then he tops it off with Sriracha sauce. Now I don’t mind Sriracha sauce, but mixed with peanut butter and pickles is a waste of the sauce.
So, using the advice from one of Dan’s previous posts about giving feedback, here’s what I want to say to Dan:
“I’m giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.”
Here’s the video:
*image from fastweb
Ewww that sounds awful although I will say that peanut butter mixed with sriracha tastes really good with thai dishes. Not in a sandwich with pickles though that sounds disgusting.
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OK, I can see a peanut sauce and sriracha mixed together. But the pickle thing is gross…
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Yeah that whole mix of things sounds really disgusting
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agreed!
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Dan is really reaching with this podcast. 🙄
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that must explain it… 🙂
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Do you think that maybe Dan is pregnant?
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I can’t wait to write about that when he reveals the truth! 🙂
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That would be one hell of a post.
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it could have Pulitzer Prize written all over it…
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Or at least a baby bump in your stats.
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LOL! Oh gosh!
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hmmmm…..
that would be a tough trade-off. the Pulitzer Prize vs an increase in my stats…I’d have to take a pregnant pause to think about that…
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I guess it’s kind of difficult to conceive.
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but it would be a labor of love…
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The love would come first. The labor would follow later.
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and in between is the birth of tippy gnu…
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Only you would ask that! 😄
I didn’t crave pickles when I was pregnant and I don’t like them now either!
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Not surprising. Salted caramel coffee has destroyed your taste buds.
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No it didn’t! 😛
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My favourite is peanut butter with a smidgen of bovril topped with strong cheddar. I’ve tried it with pickles but it added nothing to the combination.
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I will only eat peanut butter plain, Tandy. I can’t say I like the sound of this combination so I must be a bit fussy about PB.
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I was like that until I tried it with cheese.
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I can eat PB by itself, but I also like it with jelly. Which I guess to some people sounds odd, but to me a PB&J is one of the all-time classic sandwiches…
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I had to look up what bovril is… I think I’ll pass; and I’ll pass on the cheese as well… 🙂
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Jim, you really make me laugh. My dad eats PB with jam, Yuck!
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your dad has excellent taste in food… 🙂
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Yeah, and it shows [wink!]
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Dan’s a good speaker. Does he ever do humor? This feels like one of those shock value videos designed to get a reaction out of people.
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He seems like he has a good sense of humor, but I think he was serious about this, but you may be right. It could all be in fun…
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I do put just about anything on peanut butter, but I would never consider pickles. When we grew up, we put sliced bananas on peanut butter, but most people have never heard of that and think it’s bizarre.
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I think Elvis was a fan of peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
Have you tried PB and Fluff?
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Perfect Pandemic lunch, eh? No, thank you. I would rather have a perfect normal lunch in a world with no pandemic, if this is what I’d be having for lunch everyday. Perhaps this is a way to motivate people to help solve the pandemic crisis. “Cure Covid, or eat this everyday.” I’d get to finding a cure, even if I ain’t in the medical profession.
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I’d be right there with you, looking for a cure if I meant I would not have to eat this sandwich!
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Well, I cannot agree with the majority here. I have eaten a PB and pickle sandwich, and although the combination sounds gut wrenching, it is actually quite delicious. I would recommend a good dill spear as the partner. The dill and vinegar give a noticeable snap to the texture and creaminess of the PB. PB also goes good on a hot dog, just saying…. Adding the siracha would be a leap for me, but for those who like a little heat, I am sure it works together. Don’t knock it till you have tied it. I have eaten a lot of things worse, for sure! Fun post, Jim!
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Dan does mention specifically using bread and butter pickles, whatever they are. And also notes you should NOT use dill pickles 🙂
And peanut butter on a hot dog might have been a bit more bearable when I ate meat, but I would have still struggled to take that first bite.
I’m glad I am an adult so I can say “no” when someone asks me to try something! 🙂
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You don’t know what bread and butter pickles are? Jim, you are leading a sheltered life. I would argue that dill pickles work as well, but I can see were the less tart B&B pickles would work well too. The are a PA Dutch staple, Jim. You need to cross that off your bucket list!
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despite it being a PA Dutch staple, I will cross it off my list, the easy way. By never putting it on there 🙂
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So a PB with pickles ain’t that bad? Don’t knock it ’till you actually tried it, eh? I like experimenting tastes with food, so if I do get the ingredients, I’ll give this sandwich a try.
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you are a brave man!
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i like my peanut butter on a spoon or in a reese’s peanut butter cup. i love pickles. i love sriracha on lots of things. maybe he was going for the pickled flavor, like in korean kimchi, the peanut taste, like in thai cooking, and the sauce which goes on everything. spread that all on a. piece of bread, as americans do with most anything, and you’ve got a sandwich! sometimes the oddest combos make the perfect mix –
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peanut butter and chocolate – now there’s a perfect combo…
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I would’ve stopped at the peanut butter. I’d never heard of sriracha sauce and now that I know what it is, I know that I’d never have it. Chillies and I don’t mix, and I’m not keen on pickles either. I’m happy for you to tell Dan just what you think.
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I’m with you with just peanut butter on the bread (although some jelly would be fine as well). And I do like Sriracha sauce.
But if I can go the rest of my life without ever eating a pickle, I’d be a happy man… 🙂
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🙂
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Same, but opposite. If you know what I mean. 🙂
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🙂
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I’ve never understood the American obsession with adding other things to peanut butter to make a sandwich: leave it alone! Though given that what you and we use the word ‘jelly’ for is rather different, I do always like the image I have of you guys biting into a sandwich and oozing fruity gelatinous dollops all over the place.
But….pickles? The word ‘gross doesn’t come close to doing justice to it…
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PB&J is one of my all time favorite sandwiches; I even wrote an homage to it for one of my blog posts.
But yes, pickles and PB is gross.
To clear your mind of such a disgusting image, how about PB and chocolate – that’s a winning combo!
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Sorry, but nothing you’ve said changes my view: anything other than neat peanut butter is just weird. There are chocolate bars that contain peanuts, and there are chocolate covered nuts, so maybe…
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does neat peanut butter just mean peanut butter by itself?
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Yes, either a spoon out of the jar or spread on bread – butter optional.
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I’m not a fan of butter at all…
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For me it’s an occasional treat, veg based spreads usually. The main ingredient is obviously the peanut butter, though…
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pb is always a good choice…
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Sounds like a quick way to ruin a good pickle. Having said that, I sometimes add peanut butter to stir fry and I may eat a pickle with it. I am not the biggest fan of peanut butter sandwiches, but I may try it…
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I know PB is popular is Thai dishes, and I will admit it adds a nice flavor. Perhaps part of my problem is that I would rank pickles right up there with beets as my least favorite foods…
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That explains it…I love pickles and I have to admit, that I like beets too; especially pickled beets 🙂
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that must be it 🙂
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Quite right. It is incorrect to put pickles and siracha on peanut butter. An error compounded by the white bread toast.
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yes, PB on good multigrain bread – now that’s a meal! 🙂
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Preferably home made. And baked on the left side of the oven. Ah! The aromatic notes of blackberry and grapefruit on the tongue as it wafts in the kitchen redolent of Tuscan ovens and baked hillsides of wild thyme.
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why are you torturing me with your words? 🙂
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PB and jam(jelly) is a definite no for me…Watching the video my initial thought as you told us the combo was yuk…however, I love bread and butter pickles and siracha so I am now erring on the I will have to try it side 🙂 Have a great weekend 🙂
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well let me know what you think if you give it a try.
It’s funny that the impact that culture has on food choices; I can’t imagine anyone not liking PB&J, but it seems there are several people outside the U.S. who want no parts of it! 🙂
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Yes , I have actually never tried it so maybe I shouldn’t say anything unless I have 🙂
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🙂
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An interesting combo … I think I’ll pass though 😯
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a wise move… 🙂
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