Terminalcoffee discussion

Crunchy or creamy?

Natural or Commercial?

Discuss.

Crunchy. Of course. Unless you're out of crunchy. Then creamy, but only under duress.

I like Skippy's, and sometimes the organic is too mealy, but I can handle both. I just bought the Aldi's brand as a test. Aldi's failed on the peanut butter front.

Jif. Eating it right now, in fact. On an English muffin, the other half of which has butter and strawberry jam.

Crunchy and I too like Skippy's.

crunchy or creamy, librarian?

Creamy, Sally, but I like crunchy sometimes, too.

Creamy Peter Pan. Makes excellent peanut butter cookies, too.

Wow. Y'all have some brand loyalty! I just go for store-brand crunchy. Unless I'm feeling wealthy, or I have a coup. Then I like Smuckers natural.

I love crunchy, but I don't eat much PB and the family prefers creamy. So, that's what I get.

I also prefer the taste of organic, natural PB. However, I'm very lazy and hate stirring the stuff. I also hate that I have to put it in the fridge. Cold PB is just icky. So, I use Skippy.

I was just thinking, as I put my gigantic jar of generic PB away in the cupboard, how weird it is that it doesn't need to be refrigerated.

Creamy. JIF. ONLY JIF. ONLY CREAMY. Never crunchy. Never ever. If my only option is crunchy, I find something else to eat. If someone makes me a PBandJ with crunchy I'll eat it. Just to be nice, though.

Creamy, either Jif or Peter Pan. Does anyone else eat peanut butter by itself? A spoonful was a common childhood snack in my house growing up, but it weirds my wife out when she sees me do it now.

Has anyone had almond butter? This sounds very intriguing to me, but I was kind of scared away by the $8/jar price that I saw online.

I like to dip a spoonful of peanut butter into chocolate syrup, or a bowlful of M&Ms if I have some handy.

Almond butter is good, but sweet, IMHO.

I usually just get the store brand, creamy. I love love love peanut butter and chocolate together. Every weekend morning I usually have toast with peanut butter and raspberry preserve with my coffee. Yum! I don't like the natural stuff. The oil on the top is icky.

Extra Crunchy Peter Pan. my fav sandwich is said PB with some thick slices of colby cheese on it between two slices of Aunt Millie's Oatnut bread. and milk

natural PB is nasty all oily and gross. almond butter? does it come in crunchy?

I eat peanut butter right out of the spoon, tadpole. I also eat it with apples, or bananas.

on celery. that is the healthiest thing i eat

Am I alone in my natural pb love?

seems so

Sally wrote: "Am I alone in my natural pb love? "
I love natural PB, I'm just to lazy to use it.

Sandi, we need to talk about this. Why is it so hard to stir? Would it help if we moved your laz-i-boy into the kitchen so you could sit while you stirred? Does your arm get tired? Do you suffer from flimsy spoons?

(heh heh, spoons)

I too, was put off at first. Especially when I'd start out with the novice mistake of over-eagerly stirring and sloshing peanut oil out onto the counter.

But once you taste the glory of a three hour warmed peanut cracker delight made from it, it's hard to go back to salty, bland, Jif/Skipper/Peanut Pan. You know it, I know it. They all need to know it.

My problem is that nobody else in the house will stir the peanut butter and I don't eat enough PB to keep it properly stirred. Storing it upside down helps some, but nobody puts it back in the fridge that way.

Skippy, for the past 20 years. Creamy only.

And a PB & J sandwich made with GRAPE jelly only plese, not strawberry!

When I was a kid I used to do peanut butter and lettuce....

Creamy, and Jif.

i knew Peanut would love PB and i also knew that Bun would eat natural PB. prob with something cool like marmalade

Yet another clue to the relatedness of me and Bun.

Why not both; crunchy AND creamy...but, then would the creamy become crunchy, too?

To take the question a bit further--
When you make a PB&J do you have more peanut butter, or more Jelly??

Personally, I have more, a lot more, peanut butter; my wife always has more jelly.

I have fond, childhood memories of peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiches on good old white bread.

Sally wrote: "Am I alone in my natural pb love? "

Natural for me too - preferably crunchy. Often the reduced salt Trader Joe version, which is just smooshed peanuts at that point. Yum.

I currently have two tubs in the fridge, though. I was filling Bo's Kong the other day and I accidentally double dipped, so now he has his very own jar of peanut butter, well labelled so I don't accidentally eat from that one.

My dog has his own jar of PB also, and for similar reasons. He doesn't seem particularly involved in the crunchy v. creamy debate however.

Oh I didn't catch that it was her dog. I wondered why. What's a kong?

http://www.kongcompany.com/worlds_bes...

THey're machine washable, but I'll admit that he usually rolls his under the couch, where I forget about it until it rolls out one day, at which point I just fill it again.

Mike wrote: "Why not both; crunchy AND creamy...but, then would the creamy become crunchy, too?

To take the question a bit further--
When you make a PB&J do you have more peanut butter, or more Jelly??

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This is an excellent question. More PB than J...on wheat bread only. And grape jelly is preferred, of course:)

grape JAM if you please.

What's the difference between jam and jelly?

No, seriously, I don't know.

Thanks! And...Buns knocked that one out of the park in five minutes. Well done:)

I really like apricot jam. Especially on pancakes.

But work hard to make equal amounts of pb and j on my sandwiches. I don't like either in excess. Too soggy or too dry.

Is there such a thing as grape jam? I've never seen it.
Yes, I prefer seedless raspberry and blackberry jam. Very annoying little seeds they've got...

Peanut butter and blackberry jam for me, please! :)

I can't eat jelly with my PB. I like it unadulterated. Don't try giving me a chocolate/PB combo either. I like jelly/jam, I like PB, and I like chocolate. I just can't stand them combined with anything.

I'm also a fan of peanut butter with banana and honey.

Sandi-
I also don't mix pb and J. IT seems just wrong to me. They are perfect on their own. But I do eat chocolate and peanut butter. And pb with bannanas is a favorite.

i get on kicks where i eat only grape jelly, then i move to apple jelly and then to perhaps a nice black raspberry but i will eat the whole jar (or two) before moving on to the next flavor. jelly is good. jam is good. marmalade is weird.

I like peach preserves. There ... I said it.

I currently have two tubs in the fridge, though. I was filling Bo's Kong "

Somehow I originally read that as Ko's Bong, and thought that peanut butter was a terrible thing to fill a bong with.

Agreed.

hard to keep lit that is for sure

Pumpkin butter and peanut butter is really good, so I'd bet that apple butter would be good with PB too, Misha.

Yes apple butter is very good with PB.

apple butter made with red hots :)