1 The first major snowfall of the year, I always start frantically baking and soupmaking. I think it's a lizard-brain thing.

2 OK, I gotta ask:  Why do you store your jars of peanut butter upside down?

3 Tex, I think it's because the peanut butter is imported from Australia...

4

That's the kind of peanut butter that's made from peanuts and salt, and nothing else. It doesn't contain emulsifiers, so it separates. When you open a new jar which has been stored normally, you'll find a layer of oil on top of a very thick layer of peanut paste. It has to be stirred before you use it, a process which takes several minutes.

And you'll usually end up with an unstirred bit at the bottom of the jar. If you store the jar upside down, then the oil begins at the bottom of the jar and the paste is over it. That makes it a lot easier to mix it up and to get all of the paste mixed up.

Once I've opened a jar and mixed it, I store it with the lid upwards. But it works better to keep the unopened jars upside down.

By the way, it tastes a hell of a lot better than things like Skippy and Jif, which have added corn syrup and a lot of other things mixed in. The texture is better, too; emulsifiers suck.

5 As to why the tuna is upside down, well... it isn't, actually. Bumblebee did something weird with the labels on this particular kind of tuna, and I honestly don't know why.

6 I liked Siergen's explanaton better...

I agree about getting the GOOD peanut butter - it's worth it.  It really does taste better without all that sugar/corn syrup added to it.

As for my fridge, it's an ongoing war between me and my wife/daughters.  They do not understand how an engineer's mind works re: organizing storage space...

7 Hey, that's what I do with my peanut butter, too, and for the same reason!