Posted on 12/20/2014 3:18:41 PM PST by PROCON
One of my husband ‘s favorite sandwiches is peanut butter and a pickle on rye. Elvis Presley liked his peanut butter sandwiches with banana and bacon, and Hemingway liked thick onion slices in his. Ninety-four percent of American households have a jar on hand. The stuff lasts forever, so in a nuclear war situation you can always rely on it for sustenance. It can be stored safely unrefrigerated for two years.
I, on the other hand, have a love/hate relationship with it, and if I do ever eat it, I do so in the traditional manner, as a solo spread or with its mate, jelly! At other times, I abhor the stuff and, even when scrounging around for something to eat, will bypass it.
I had always thought that peanut butter was as American as apple pie and mom and was never eaten before we Americans took over from the British. Not true. It was actually an Aztec dish, but eaten as a paste, not a spread. I bet they didn’t eat it with jelly either, or put it into their kids’ lunch boxes.
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Skippy Chunky.
No contest.
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My sweetie likes PB on his hamburger. Ugh!
In Culpeper, Virginia a restaurant occasionally serves a peanut butter and jelly bacon cheeseburger. It is actually very good.
GWC has a math building named after him on the campus of Iowa State University, his alma mater.
Peanut butter in chilli? That’s a new one on me.
Nutella?
I’m a peanut butter freak and love it on celery. Also, spread it on bread with salad dressing (I hate mayonnaise) and dill pickles. I used to love PB&J sandwiches with homemade chili soup. Still do, as a matter of fact.
That’s the one!
Truly magnificent on freshly baked bread.
My friends in grammar school would put potato chips on top, Never liked it with jelly though.
Peanut butter breath. Yuk.
It’s a food I never tire of either.
Celery and PB is classic.
PB saltines cracker sandwich is also.
I think the best PBJ is with boysenberry jam. Like heaven.
Europeans have some good qualities and ideas.
If you put a couple raisins on your celery with PB, it’s called “ants on a log”.
We, too, use peanut butter to administer our dog’s pills - and were you aware that peanut butter was used to make the mouth of the horse, Mr. Ed, move like he was talking? Yep, they put peanut butter under his gums to make them move.
Asian style PB toast is fantastic and simple.
Use thick sliced bread and spread a thick layer of PB. Toast it in the toaster oven until it is bubbling.
Delicious and filling, but be careful or it can burn the roof of your mouth.
I did my one and only “Black History Month” report on George Washington Carver many, many years ago.
He was an amazing person.
I was told years late, by a friend who was pretty much a liberal with sanity that in many countries there are statues of Carver, because he contributed so much to people NOT STARVING TO DEATH, but here he’s overlooked, because he didn’t toe the racial grievance line.
I eat PB with many things (fruit and veg, etc) I even put super chunky in my Ramen.
Never heard that. I love Americanisms.
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