That pink peanut butter jar on the shelf is upside down on purpose. Lucy Dana kept hearing the same complaint about natural peanut butter: oil on top and a cement-hard layer at the bottom. So One Trick Pony spent a year designing a jar that sits lid-down in stores. When you flip it at home, the oil ends up at the bottom, and the wide mouth with no inner shoulder lets your knife reach every edge. Watch the full conversation with Lucy in the related video.
Why This Peanut Butter Jar Sits Upside Down
Join the list!
Join 100,000+ other listeners and get updates on new episodes!
Email has been submitted.
Recent Episodes
- White Castle: The Burger People Plan Road Trips Around
- The Foodfluencers: Dana’s Bakery Started With a Craving for Birthday Cake Macarons
- Einstein Bros., Bruegger’s, Noah’s and Manhattan: Four Takes on the Morning Bagel
- The Foodfluencers: One Trick Pony on Becoming Your Favorite Peanut Butter
- Mellow Mushroom Refuses to Be Just Another Pizza Chain
- The Foodfluencers: Gato Dates Went From Shabbat Dinner to Erewhon
- Farrelli’s Pizza and Why People Come Back for More Than the Pizza
- The Foodfluencers: Why Alice Mushrooms Wants You to Eat Chocolate Every Day
- No Child Should Go Hungry: Billy Shore on Building Something Bigger Than Yourself
- See all →