AMERICAS
The new American football snack
Brock Purdy he ate one in his locker before the Super Bowl. Andy Reid he once offered them to his players as a prize. They had behaved well. Before practice, during training camp and in the locker room at halftime, crustless sandwiches are becoming a favorite snack for players across the NFL. The Athletic calls him “a touch of childhood wrapped in plastic”a kind of snack nannimorettiane of the five that will never return.
Always a few years ago The Athletic he had talked about orange peels as the NFL’s secret halftime snack. Shhh, don’t tell anyone. It had become such a widespread craze that teams were required to provide three dozen orange slices to the visiting team. The use of the dozen as a unit of measurement is very interesting here, in case one evening we’ll have a beer and learn more. Anyway. A day goes by, two days go by, three days go by, many players got a little bored of the citrus fruits at halftime and turned to Uncrustables, the peanut butter sandwiches and gelatin found in the frozen food section of American supermarkets.
The Athletic tried to find out how many Uncrustables they actually wear out in the NFL. After convincing the team’s employees that they were serious, that is, that they were really preparing a report on this thing, they collected some data. Not everyone cooperated, eh. In the editorial office they will certainly have received a response from some press office that «we prefer not to communicate the data». The privacy of sandwiches. But based on the information collected, the American magazine has established that NFL teams consume between 3,600 and 4,300 Uncrustables per week. If we consider the training sessions and some numbers given downwards for fear of a scandalous report, The Athletic writes that we arrive at 80,000 sandwiches per year.
Now, it’s clear that you all want to know where this sandwich comes from. The Athletic Sam takes us by the throat, but in the end he tells us. Len Kretchmana former wide receiver at North Dakota State, lived in the small town of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and worked in the school food service industry. One day in the mid-1990s, his wife Emily suggested he create a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, without the crust. A simple idea but with some complex initial doubts to resolve. The Kretchmans began making the loaf in their kitchen, with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jelly and a few drinks. The first decision to make was the shape. The moon is round, the sun is round, the Earth is round, even the Uncrustable would have been round. Mr. Len took a cup from the kitchen cupboard and used it as a mold, because – he says a The Athletic – mothers of thirty years ago would have done this. They added a crease at the edges crustless bread, but then they had to figure out how to stop the jelly from coming out. I don’t know if you’re passionate about it. A lot here.
Every time they defrosted their creations, the gelatin would leak into the bread and ruin everything. Lots of trial and error followed, a bit like De Laurentiis with the coaches last year. Eventually they thought of putting a drop of jelly in the center of the bread, covering it with peanut butter so that it wouldn’t would go crazy [voce del verbo sperciare]. That’s the moment Kretchman believes he has turned a corner. He calls it: our moment of genius. With his business partner David Geske, he takes the sandwiches and presents them to local schools. Here, we brought you the… Ah man, they needed a name. What we call it, what we don’t call it, the partner’s eleven-year-old son says: The Incredible Uncrustable. Four years later, in 1999, Smuckers showed up with big bucks to buy both the idea and the company. They dropped the first part of the name and launched it in the country The Uncrustable – which looks like a Brian De Palma film with Kevin Costner.
It took a while, but the NFL realized there was a snack that “could combine the desire for lightness with gluttony” [ve lo ricordate] and so we got to where we are. Those geniuses The Athletic they calculated that with the Uncrustables eaten by the NFL in a year they can cover themselves further 18 meters of a football field and that every week, the NFL consumes almost the weight of in sandwiches three Travis KelcAnd. Taylor Swift should make a song about the Uncrustables. Unplugged, of course.
