Peanut Butter Prices Are Rising By 24 to 40 Percent

Cleveland Leader ^ | 10/10/2011 - 10:08am | By Julie Kent

[DeaconBenjamin]

That's just nuts!

[I Drive Too Fast]

Thank goodness we don’t have any inflation. /sarc

[eak3]

So what are we looking at 7.50 - 8.00 for a jar of peanut butter? Ummm no thanks.

[ari-freedom]

I thought peanut butter was banned everywhere by now!

[Interesting Times]

You can now add peanut butter, a long-time recession staple food item, to the list of things that "the 99 percent" may no longer be able to afford.

Free advertising for the communist protests, right in the first line of an unrelated article. Pravda much?

[af_vet_rr]

Puns aside, we haven’t yet began to feel the full effects of the drought. I’ve seen it personally - we buy a lot of fresh foods from farmers markets directly from the farmers and prices have gone up while selection and sizes have gone down. I can’t imagine what it will be like on a national level.

[CrazyIvan]

Peanut butter was invented by George Washington Carver. This
means that price increased are racist!

[digger48]

So much for having peanut butter cookies in the line-up for the holiday season goodie trays.

or buckeyes......(((sigh)))

[RetiredArmy]

When China, Russia, the Arab countries and most of the Eurowinnies decide to drop the Dollar as the top currency, you will see prices go so high you will pay $10 for a loaf of bread. When they refuse to take dollars anymore and some have already started doing that, and here comes the world currency, the worthless dollar will go down hard. We just keep printing money. Other countries cannot do that. They have to buy dollars to pay for things internationally. When they all run from the dollar, then we are going to get creamed. This is what Soros and Obama want. Soros is buying gold by the ton. He will be rich. Obama and the other big communist left will be rich. Soros will take care of his manchild. It is we who will be left to pay.

[aimhigh]

Again, inflation caused by government. Federal law limits peanut farming and imports. Peanut farmer Jimmy Carter is smiling all the way to the bank.

[Brandonmark]

Occupy Jif

[newzjunkey]

PB has become an important source of protein as prices have risen. This is not pleasant news.

[barstoolblues]

Elvis is gettin’ upset.

If Elvis can’t have his peanut butter and banana, Elvis is gonna get upset!

[barstoolblues]

Elvis is gettin’ upset.

If Elvis can’t have his peanut butter and banana, Elvis is gonna get upset!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks DeaconBenjamin.

...from $450 a ton to $1,150 a ton in just one year and now peanut butter makers are about to pass on the increased costs to consumers

Someday we'll return to the days of tuber the price of one.

[DeaconBenjamin]

You could find yourself in a sticky situation.

[billorites]

“If peanut butter were as expensive as caviar,” Bill (Buckley) has said more than once, “it would be served at Buckingham Palace teas.”

[reformedliberal]

One pound of Smuckers Natural is only $2.48 at Walmart. So, likely $3.30+, soon. We read this earlier and stocked up. It has a 6 month sell by date and peanut oil can go rancid, but kept cool and dark it should be good for longer, unopened. My husband could live on the stuff, so it goes pretty fast, around here.

The ones w/hydrogenated oils would last longer, I suppose. Most of them are what I would call *peanut spread*, though, not real peanut butter.

[max americana]

>One pound of Smuckers Natural is only $2.48 at Walmart. So, likely $3.30+, soon. We read this earlier and stocked up. It has a 6 month sell by date and peanut oil can go rancid, but kept cool and dark it should be good for longer, unopened. My husband could live on the stuff, so it goes pretty fast, around here.<

Thanks for the info. I love Smuckers. When I head to the Philippines for business, I can’t believe there is an underground barter system for Smuckers that has been going since the 80’s. It really is popular, even in SE Asia.

[Brandonmark]

You could find yourself in a sticky situation.

Might even be considered a case of arachibutyrophobia.