It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time

When it comes to sandwiches, PBJ is about as good as it gets, and I'll tell you why: homogeneity.

Sure, there are a lot of flashy sandwiches out there. Clubs. Reubens. BLTs. But with all of them, it is the same story. Lots of good ingredients, lots of textures, but only a couple really good bites (if you're lucky) with all of them together. At the fringes of the sandwich, you're left with just lettuce, or a stray piece of bacon, between two slices of bread. That is not a sandwich. No sir.

PBJ is designed to get the flavor to the very crust of the bread. You control the ratios exactly. A tad less jelly? Do it! Maybe a scoche more peanut butter. Do it! You control it. None of this one-slice, two-slice crap. Precisely the right amount of peanut butter and jelly across the entire face of the sandwich.

Runners up include your salad sandwiches (tuna, chicken salad, egg salad) and grilled cheese, which deserves recognition for its attempt to spread out the cheese to the corners of the sandwich, but falls short in portion control.

In case you couldn't tell, I'm looking forward to lunch.