Posted on 03/25/2017 2:01:39 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
The other days I got the munchies for peanut butter so I put some on bread and enjoyed it. I also like peanut butter in ice cream as well as cookies. Also I like peanut butter shakes. Okay, by now you guessed it...I like peanut butter. And I'm sure most of you do too.
So my big question is why does most of the rest of the world HATE peanut butter while it is very popular with North Americans (Americans and Canadians)? I read that peanut butter is so hated by most of the rest of the world that once some aid organization sent crackers and peanut butter to some starving nation and the folks rejected it.
There has to be a reason why North Americans love peanut butter while most of the rest of the world hates the stuff.
Hmm, that would be Pina Coladas . . .
Only a communist hates peanut butter...
when you send people food, it has to be food you are used to... even the starving won’t eat strange foods.
As for peanuts, they are eaten roasted or boiled, and sold by street vendors in Asia and Africa...and often added to sauces in SE Asia and in Africa.
Peanuts are not actually a nut. They are a legume, AKA beans and peas, that happen to grow underground.
While in France I offered a jar of peanut butter to an elderly French priest friend of mine and he responded, “No thank you, in France we have many cows from which we get butter.”
It’s not really a nut.
It is liked in Southeast Asia with peanut sauces like Satay and sprinkled on SE Asian ice Cream concoctions.
I find little difference between skippy 25% reduced fat. I like less oily peanut butter.
First trip to Japan and a street vendor gleefully offered us natto. He pulled up a glob of it and let it ooze back into the container. He was impressed that I took a mouthful of the stuff. Don’t remember the taste, but the texture was kind of slimy. But I’ve never thought to try it again.
Nom nom nom.
I remember eating various candies in Vietnam made from peanuts. There is also a Vietnamese peanut sauce that is popular in the U.S.
Reeses peanut butter cups. Red wine with 90% dark chocolate with sea salt imbedded.
Mmmmmmm...Almond butter.
I remember watching AFRTS TV while stationed in Germany. When the wall came down, the US Army set up refugee stations for the East Germans pouring across the border. The cooks set up field kitchens and one of the staples for lunch was PBJ sandwiches. They literally had to bring in translators to tell the DDR Volk what was in the sandwiches.
It’s the Russians...
I'm not a big fan of hazelnuts. I put them in the same category as hummus... okay, but not something I would ever seek out.
Peanut butter, OTOH, is good in just about anything.
I hate hummus, I used to like peanut butter, until I found the alternatives. In the end I’m just not that into peanuts.
Even the British hate British food, which is why Indian curry has been elevated to national cuisine and before that they hated the French but adopted their words and dishes as part and parcel of upper class dining.
It’s Rupert Holmes, the guy who did the song about the trapped miners eating their buddy, Tim. :)
Hell...
The food is British
The cars are French
The police are German
The lovers are Swiss
...and the whole thing is run by Italians
Sounds great!
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