On second thought, this isn’t the menu; this is the most popular item – the one slice FOLDED peanut butter sandwich. It is our signature offering and actually the identifying factor would be the folded over slice of bread. People specify different types of peanut butter and different kinds of bread, but the whole trick is to  spread the PB (and whatever use you might add – jelly?) on ONE half of a slice of bread and then you fold the bread over.

You do NOT cut it. You FOLD. Cutting would be not so much wrong, as just not right. People tend to look at sandwiches like that and pop “thought balloons” out of their heads. Once someone ordered our special but with the bread cut down the middle and the room was filled with thought balloons, exclaiming, “THAT SANDWICH AIN’T RIGHT!”

The direction of folding is determined by the shape of the bread slice. Usually, your basic sandwich bread folds from top to bottom, but we have some who do fold from side to side. An elongated slice, such as Vienna bread does, on the other hand, fold side to side as a rule.

We have chunky and creamy peanut butter – our house recipe, but some of our regulars bring in their own jars and we put their names on them and line them up on a shelf. Every now and then, someone will come in and pull a piece of bread in a sandwich bag our of his pocket and tell us to use that for his “foldover”.

One day we stuck two slices of bread together with PB in the middle and cut the crust off – kind of a fear factor thing. Anyone to order one AND eat it won a free bottle of vintage Pokagon Soda Pop from our cellar.