A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
@blp Nonsense! I don't like peanut butter, but as far as I can tell, that makes me unusual. It's been a staple in the UK (including Scotland!) for at least as long as I've been alive.
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
@blp didn't grow up in the US, never had peanut butter -
A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
Wow, 100 votes in less than a hour. I don't think I've posted anything before that got that many votes total. I guess peanut butter is a hot-button issue here.
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
@blp my guess is that American peanut butter is more likely to have sugar in it than other places.
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@Drbruced This was in an encounter at a Scottish social club in San Francisco, so the tendency toward "if it's not Scottish, it's crap!" is strong there.
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
@blp
Grew up in the US, peanuts and/or peanut butter would be my top choice "desert island food."Peanuts and peanut butter rule!
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
@blp Historically, peanut butter sandwiches got a *huge* boost in the 1930s-40s, as United States cities started providing school lunches and needed stuff that could be made in central kitchens and distributed without spoiling or cooling, and then as soldiers needed food that was easy to make and eat but still calorie-rich. So there's history behind the US peanut butter thing.
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
@blp I went to school with somebody from Bulgaria who tried peanut butter and liked it before she found out what it was. I’m told peanuts are just animal feed over there.
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@blp Historically, peanut butter sandwiches got a *huge* boost in the 1930s-40s, as United States cities started providing school lunches and needed stuff that could be made in central kitchens and distributed without spoiling or cooling, and then as soldiers needed food that was easy to make and eat but still calorie-rich. So there's history behind the US peanut butter thing.
@Austin_Dern That's new to me, thanks for the history!
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
@blp
Grew up in the US, only like the natural peanut butter that doesn't have sugar or palm oil. -
A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
@blp just wanted to clarify that while I do like peanut butter, American peanut butter is an abomination.
The acceptable ingredients are peanuts and (preferably but not necessarily) salt.
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@blp just wanted to clarify that while I do like peanut butter, American peanut butter is an abomination.
The acceptable ingredients are peanuts and (preferably but not necessarily) salt.
@KitL You can get peanut butter like that here. It's what I buy. I imagine we mostly export the worst stuff though.
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@KitL You can get peanut butter like that here. It's what I buy. I imagine we mostly export the worst stuff though.
@blp to be fair, with hindsight most of my attempts to buy groceries in America were from petrol stations, which may not have been an unbiased sample.
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@blp to be fair, with hindsight most of my attempts to buy groceries in America were from petrol stations, which may not have been an unbiased sample.
@KitL For a year or so I subscribed to a service that mailed me snacks from a different country every month. It got monotonous because it turns out that the snacks you can mail internationally are pretty limited. Once I showed them to someone from that month's country and they said, "Yeah those are our snacks, if you shop for them in a gas station." I think that gas station groceries are a little like that.
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
@blp peanutbutter=sudo
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
@blp I'm from Portugal, have no US ancestry/background whatsoever, and while I don't eat it often, I do love peanut butter.
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@tshirtman I have no idea how #dutch people feel about peanut butter
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
@blp there are some other hotspots, e.g. the Dutch eat a lot more peanut butter than all their neighbors
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A Scot told me the other day that only people who grew up in America like peanut butter.
US and no thank you. Peanut butter cookies are not my favorite but ok. Peanut butter sandwiches? Nope.
