“You can take my pride, but not my sandwich!”
Rat Race Staff
I found this interesting, not just because I had no idea that professional basketball is currently obsessed with peanut butter, but because it’s a reminder that reaching your highest goals doesn’t mean you get to have your own way all the time. Sometimes, being at the top means they try to take away your sandwiches:
Every team in the NBA is trying to eat healthier, but the stakes for the Warriors are higher than they are for anyone else, and not only because they’re chasing back-to-back championships and the NBA-record 72 wins. There’s another reason for their added incentive: The Warriors will fly more than 50,000 miles this season—the most in the NBA.
That’s why the Warriors weren’t completely opposed to watching what they ate while in the sky. They just couldn’t let the PB&J ban stand.
“We had to get those back,” Golden State guard Shaun Livingston said.
The backlash began with Walton. When he wasn’t coaching as Steve Kerr’s interim replacement, Walton went out of his way to bother everyone he could about the PB&Js, even though he’s well aware of the sugar in jelly, fat in peanut butter and all that awful gluten in bread. “I stuck to my guns,” Walton said, “and I kept complaining.”
To find out how The (Peanut) Butter Battle Book ends, read the whole thing at The Wall Street Journal.
(N.B.—The title of this post is a quote from a Dilbert comic back in 2007.)
