Natural peanut butter stratifies while it sits. The jar carries the state:
strat 0..1, set per order (smooth 0.75, crunchy 0.9 — chunks sink). The first
unstirred dip takes the oil slick off the top; the ones after it dig into what
the oil left behind. Verified dip trace, no stirring: 0.875, 0.669, 0.462,
0.256. Swirl the knife in the jar (~2.5 circles of angular sweep; holding still
stirs nothing) and every dip is 0.5. Stirring costs time, and time costs toast
warmth — the mechanic pays the same tax as everything else.
Consistency pushes back through the physics that already exist: an oily load
multiplies the yield down (glides at any angle, goes on thin), a dry one
multiplies it up (fights like cold butter, tears). The shader shows it — slick
is dark and shiny, grout is pale and matte.
The judge reads what LANDED, not what the jar was: every deposit remembers the
oil it landed at, and the criterion scores the mass-weighted mean AND stdev.
The stdev is the design catch, found by verification: a slick strip and a grout
strip average to 0.54 — "just right" — and the first cut scored the lazy play
as if the jar had been stirred. Nobody eats the average:
never stirred, strips oil 0.54 ±0.23 "slick here, grout there" C
one slick dip, whole oil 0.87 ±0.00 "a slick"
stirred first oil 0.50 ±0.00 "just right"
Crunchy reuses the particle system wholesale — chunks ride the knife, shed per
stroke-distance, get judged with the same Clark–Evans index ("Peanut chunks —
21 bits, evenly strewn (R 1.20)"), and the rind line bank is genericised via a
{bits} placeholder so he complains correctly about either.
Day 6 is crunchy now ("the PROPER kind"), the ticket warns when a jar has been
sitting, and the JAR bar shows how mixed it is. Five new judge lines, including
"You did not stir the jar. The jar knows. I know."
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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