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.
Where on earth did you go? God, why don’t I know?
That may be worse than Jimmy Buffett. :)
A friend, as a kid, thought it said, “If you like bean enchiladas.”
That’s true. My son has Crohn’s Disease, which is a serious inflammation of the intestines. He has to be very careful of what he eats. Peanuts, sesame seeds etc are absolutely forbidden
Does Hussein still wok his dog?
A co-worker purchases powdered peanut butter. Tastes good.
Dunno. Hussein enjoys BBQ dog. I’ll pass on that.
And Hmmm, that would be Rupert Holmes, not Jimmy Buffett.
And Hmmm, that would be very pathetic that I knew that without looking it up. Unnnnggghhhhhh
Jimmy smokes dope with Jimmuh. I had the misfortune of reading one of his books, and he had a short story fantasy about Fidel Castro taking a joy ride in some guy’s plane. But, at least telling this reminds me that Castro is dead!
International Racism.
Mr. niteowl77
Most of the world doesn’t grow peanuts. It’s an alien taste to them. Get over it, snowflake.
That’s a positive!
I’ll take peanut butter over vegemite any day of the week.
English food is the reason they expanded all around the world.
You would have thought they could have learned something.
English cooking: Boil it until there is no flavor left.
Polish cooking: boil until there is no flavor left. And then fry it in butter.
I’ll take a grilled steak any day of the week.
This is really stupid. It is a matter of lack of education and personal wants.
Peanut allergies are the body’s overreaction to certain proteins found in peanuts. The immune system’s response to these allergens is to trigger an antibody, which then triggers other chemicals. One of the scariest results of these chemicals is the chance for anaphylaxis shock.
Somewhere around 150 to 200 people die in the U.S. each year because of food allergies. It’s estimated that around 50 percent to 62 percent of those fatal cases of anaphylaxis were caused by peanut allergies.
Meanwhile, around 10 people in the United Kingdom die each year because of food allergies. However, these figures are not completely reliable, in part because allergic deaths aren’t considered reportable events. So, let’s triple the deaths in the UK and call it 30.
Now let’s compare that to something else that is a consumable. 55 million adults are estimated to drink at harmful levels in the EU (more than 40g of alcohol, i.e. 4 drinks a day, for men and over 20g, i.e. 2 drinks a day, by women). Harmful alcohol consumption is estimated to be responsible for approximately 195 000 deaths a year in the EU due to e.g. accidents, liver disease, cancers etc., Harmful alcohol use is the 3rd biggest cause of early death and illness in the EU, behind tobacco and high blood pressure. And alcohol can raise blood pressure. More than 1 out of every 4 deaths among young men (aged 15-29 years) in the EU is due to alcohol (often caused by road traffic accidents, homicide, violence, etc) and 1 in every 10 deaths among young women.
Peanut allergies? Wake up and quit letting other people think for you. We see it here. But I guess that’s asking the world to do too much, isn’t it.
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That’s not Jimmy Buffett.
IIRC, Carver would have been about 20 years old at the time of the Canadian's patent.
I ate a tremendous amount of peanut butter as a kid, but favored the crunchy variety. I’d eat any of it but crunchy was best in my opinion at the time. It all ended at a favorite aunt’s house, she had a big jar of that swirled grape jelly and peanut butter that was sold in the stores at the time, I’d always been fascinated by the looks of it in the jar but my family never bought it. So, I asked for a PBJ from that jar. I ate it, didn’t sit well, made me sick. I can’t eat peanut butter or grape jelly to this day because of it. I enjoy Thai peanut sauce, as well as many other things with peanuts as an ingredient. Jelly I don’t really do anymore, but preserves or marmalade I love. Just not grape. Funny how childhood bouts of digestive distress can stick with you and affect your food preferences.
I loves me some Polish cooking.
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