[balrog666]

True... My man James Randi makes it a personal mission of his to ferret out the bogus patents that are granted (free energy type stuff usually). I believe he secured a patent on the pb&j sandwich as a way of showing the absurdities of the US Patent office. May be Urban Legend, I'm not sure and don't feel like checking right now!

Long live The Amazing Randi!

[Ten Megaton Solution]

Toast, US Patent #6,080,436

A Patent for a varation on the theme of Peanut Butter and Jelly, UP Patent #6,004,596

James Randi on PB & J:
When I found out they'd issued a patent recently on "toast" and on a variety of the peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, I was sufficiently stunned, but this one is The Winner in the Stupid Field, hands-down. I cannot, in my widest imaginings (and I'm adept at that art, I assure you) come up with any means of turning a profit on 6,368,227, unless the intent is to close down playgrounds all over the globe.... Look it up, but be seated when you read it....