I love peanut butter!
I prefer smooth peanut butter to crunchy. I’m not crazy about organic peanut butter because I find it a bit too dry. I love peanut butter in cookies, in cakes, in sandwiches, on crackers, in pretzels, in ice cream, in chocolate bars & in cheesecake.
I love peanut butter alone & in combination with a lot of other things. Some of these combinations make people look askance at me while some of them you may be more familiar with:
- Peanut butter & jam or jelly. I prefer jelly because I find jam too thick with peanut butter.
- Peanut butter with marmalade.
- Peanut butter on warm toast or any type of soft bread.
- Peanut butter & banana sandwiches.
- Peanut butter on hot dogs. Everyone wrinkles their nose at this, but the nutty flavor of the peanut butter with the hot dog elevates the taste of the hot dog above a normal snack.
My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was 12 years old who cooked us a hot lunch every day, so it was pretty rare for us to have peanut butter in a sandwich, so when we did it was quite a treat. I remember we had peanut butter & jam sandwiches after we received a free jar of a new product – peanut butter & strawberry jam in the same jar. We received this as a free gift after finding a house fly in a tin of jam we purchased. My parents contacted the company who made the jam & a representative came right to our house to pick up the offending tin of jam, replace it & give us this special new product. We thought we were pretty special to be the first to try this, it hadn’t even been released to the stores yet! It didn’t turn out to be a popular product so it was discontinued. Frankly, I found the peanut butter in the jar too dry, so it didn’t spread well.
photosfromtheloonybin
Apr 18, 2013 @ 05:13:55
Mmmmmm, now I’m so hungry. I think a peanut butter and banana sandwich is in order LOL!!! 🙂
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benzeknees
Apr 18, 2013 @ 16:33:59
Aren’t they just yummy?
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photosfromtheloonybin
Apr 18, 2013 @ 18:16:14
They are yummy, but I used to add something really wierd. I used to crumble up saltine crackers on my peanut butter and banana sandwiches :).
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benzeknees
Apr 18, 2013 @ 20:40:11
Was it for the crunch or the saltiness? I’ll have to try this next time. I had peanut butter hot dogs for dinner tonight & realized I didn’t have enough peanut butter left to make peanut butter & banana sandwiches tomorrow.
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photosfromtheloonybin
Apr 19, 2013 @ 04:42:11
I’m not sure, and I’m not even sure where the heck the idea came from, but it’s really good!! 🙂
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the curtain raiser
Apr 18, 2013 @ 06:02:09
Peanut butter with honey on warm toast, mmmmm.
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benzeknees
Apr 18, 2013 @ 16:34:30
Oh, I forgot about peanut butter & honey! Great choice!
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jaschmehl
Apr 18, 2013 @ 07:19:45
My boyfriend loves Peanut Butter and Fluff. Yuck!
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benzeknees
Apr 18, 2013 @ 16:35:23
Not sure what fluff is, I don’t know we have it here. Is it kind of a marshmallow thingy?
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jaschmehl
Apr 24, 2013 @ 11:09:47
Should have clarified – Marshmallow Fluff – which is semi-liquified, spreadable marshmallow and just disgusting!
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Doggy's Style
Apr 18, 2013 @ 08:57:00
Green apples with Peanut Butter hmmmmmm
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benzeknees
Apr 18, 2013 @ 16:35:59
Oooooh, that sounds very interesting! I’ll have to try it.
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pouringmyartout
Apr 18, 2013 @ 09:32:28
A staple of American life.
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benzeknees
Apr 18, 2013 @ 16:36:18
And Canadian life too!
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pouringmyartout
Apr 18, 2013 @ 16:40:28
Well we invented it.
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benzeknees
Apr 18, 2013 @ 17:20:59
Are you sure about that?
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pouringmyartout
Apr 18, 2013 @ 17:26:14
I think so. It was Washington Carver… or Ben Franklin. Or did he invent the Twinkie?
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benzeknees
Apr 18, 2013 @ 20:38:38
From Wikipedia: Evidence of peanut butter as it is known today comes from U.S. Patent 306,727, issued in 1884 to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for the finished product of the process of milling roasted peanuts between heated surfaces until the peanuts entered “a fluid or semi-fluid state.” As the peanut product cooled, it set into what Edson explained as being “a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment”. Edson’s patent is based on the preparation of a peanut paste as an intermediate to the production the modern product we know as peanut butter; it does show the initial steps necessary for the production of peanut butter.
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pouringmyartout
Apr 18, 2013 @ 20:49:14
I stand corrected.
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benzeknees
Apr 19, 2013 @ 01:40:49
You guys think you invented hockey & basketball too!
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pouringmyartout
Apr 19, 2013 @ 07:14:17
And underpants.
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benzeknees
Apr 19, 2013 @ 11:48:52
I don’t know about underpants but we did invent penicillin. What did you think we did with all those cold winters when it’s too cold to go outside?
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pouringmyartout
Apr 19, 2013 @ 13:09:05
I know what I thought you did…
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Archon's Den
Apr 22, 2013 @ 20:56:55
Do you slice your bananas, or crush and spread them like King Elvis did?? 😕
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benzeknees
Apr 22, 2013 @ 23:11:15
I slice them in nice big hunks & then spread peanut butter on both sides of the bread, so it’s like a sandwich & a half! Now you made me hungry & I’m out of peanut butter!
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