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Why Peanut Butter Is Awesome and Amazing
pjmedia ^ | Dec. 19, 2014 | Arlene Becker Zarmi

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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To: PROCON

I’m a Jiff fan. Skippy is too sweet for me. I love peanut butter, one of my 3 favorite foods. I am usually the only one who eats it at my house, although my daughter does occasionally. I also like to melt it with a little butter and a tiny bit of honey and stream it over the popcorn. Then toss it like butter popcorn. It is really good! I made up that recipe back in 1985. 2 TBSP peanut butter, one of butter and a drizzle of honey to help it smooth together. YUM!


141 posted on 12/21/2014 5:18:43 AM PST by Shery (Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: trebb

I have no worries with that; “Let them eat peanut butter!”, I say!


142 posted on 12/21/2014 6:53:05 AM PST by Patriot777 (Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)
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To: PROCON

‘Did I tell you what two things fall out of the sky?’

No, what?


143 posted on 12/21/2014 2:37:52 PM PST by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: Vendome

‘That sounds great.

I live in the garlic capital and haven’t tried that one’.

Don’t forget....bread needs to be rye. Garlic will not spread as well on most types of regular toast. No cutting or mincing is needed, just peel and rub garlic on toast.


144 posted on 12/21/2014 2:43:00 PM PST by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: PROCON

I prefer the non-peanut nut butters. Especially cashew butter.


145 posted on 12/21/2014 2:48:07 PM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: 82nd Bragger

Dangit

Now I’m hungry


146 posted on 12/21/2014 4:28:23 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: dfwgator

You do know that he had nothing to do with peanut butter, right?


147 posted on 12/21/2014 4:29:12 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Vendome

Dangit

Now I’m hungry

Sorry ‘bout that. If it’s any consolation, it’s taste better in the morning (at least to me).


148 posted on 12/21/2014 5:45:36 PM PST by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: 82nd Bragger

Had some garlic fries.

I feel way better.


149 posted on 12/21/2014 6:09:19 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: pallmallman
Yeah...and your twisted sister....

: )

150 posted on 12/21/2014 8:46:39 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Osage Orange

Mayo is DISGUSTING...


151 posted on 12/26/2014 3:46:52 PM PST by pallmallman (Q)
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To: 82nd Bragger

Well, if it has to be rye, then it needs to a Reuben...forget the peanut butter.


152 posted on 12/28/2014 7:08:07 PM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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To: dfwgator
Sorry, George Washington Carver had nothing to do with Peanut Butter.

Canadian Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec was the first to patent peanut butter, in 1884.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

153 posted on 12/28/2014 7:12:18 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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