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Euro-GAF: explain yourself! (peanut butter)
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CornBurrito
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Nutella is awful. I don't get how people can like it.
Actually I do. It is cake frosting basically. Yeah, try something not disgustingly sweet on toast.
edit: This thread is really shocking. I never knew Peanut Butter was an American thing.
What about Chicken Soup?
Fuck yeah. Celery with crunchy peanut butter is my stuff.
I can walk into a store and press out a container of raw peanuts in seconds. In fact besides the fat (the good kind) and overindulging, it may be the perfect food.
Not to mention it quite possibly is one of the world;s most utilitarian plants in known history.
And it tastes damned good.
Ace Harding
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We have Nutella in the U.S. Its OK in small doses but its incredibly unhealthy with disgusting amounts of sugar. I eat way more peanut butter, and I buy the natural kind which doesn't have any added sugar and no artificial flavors. You don't want to eat gobs of it all day but its actually fairly healthy. Good fat and protein.
And chocolate and peanut butter is a heavenly combination. I add PB to my S'mores when we have campfires.
PB and jelly (jam, fruit preserves) is an undeniably tasty combination as well.
Edit: and in the U.S. we can get fresh pressed PB without a lot of unhealthy vegetable oils added. There's a pretty big health food craze here so it's not all sugar and fat-packed shit like you Europeans assume.
And chocolate and peanut butter is a heavenly combination. I add PB to my S'mores when we have campfires.
PB and jelly (jam, fruit preserves) is an undeniably tasty combination as well.
Edit: and in the U.S. we can get fresh pressed PB without a lot of unhealthy vegetable oils added. There's a pretty big health food craze here so it's not all sugar and fat-packed shit like you Europeans assume.
KingItachi
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Boozeroony
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yup
There's Nocilla, the best cream, only insane people buy such other cream here.
Nocilla sounds like a bacteria.
PjotrStroganov
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My heart swells with pride for our local pindakaas producing conglomerate.
CornBurrito
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It is really fucking mindblowing that people in this thread think that peanut butter + jelly is gross, but are only too happy to mix butter and jelly, and cheese and jelly. Now that is fucking gross.
Nutella + peanut butter is a fantastic combo.
Plenty of cheeses go well with fruit. I've never tried it but I'm sure it's fine. And butter + jam is really fantastic. Try it.
Plenty of cheeses go well with fruit. I've never tried it but I'm sure it's fine. And butter + jam is really fantastic. Try it.
You have Nutella in Europe and so do we in the US. That is why I make peanut butter and Nutella sandwiches. I always use natural crunchy peanut butter with 2 ingredients: peanuts and salt. You don't know what you are missing.
Usually, it is peanut butter with strawberry all fruit though. MMMMM
YES!
Usually, it is peanut butter with strawberry all fruit though. MMMMM
YES!
yea it's all in what you were raised on
Nutella is a chocolaty, sugary, nasty mess to my taste buds. It strikes me as not a natural product but some peasant concoction designed to mimic food supplies in the 1600's
Peanut butter is a natural, healthy, savory compliment to lots of other foods.
e: my friends have a 4yo kid who got his hands on some Nutella and now seriously will not eat a single other food unless it has nutella on it.
Nutella is a chocolaty, sugary, nasty mess to my taste buds. It strikes me as not a natural product but some peasant concoction designed to mimic food supplies in the 1600's
Peanut butter is a natural, healthy, savory compliment to lots of other foods.
e: my friends have a 4yo kid who got his hands on some Nutella and now seriously will not eat a single other food unless it has nutella on it.
KingItachi
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I love peanut butter with jam or jelly with hard dough bread or water crackers.
CornBurrito
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Cheese and fruit just sounds absolutely repulsive to me.
As for butter + jam, I dislike jam. But just the thought of butter + any other type of spread sounds bad. I prefer butter + bread, with nothing else on it.
Depends on the brand. Many mix stupid amounts of sugar/HFCS in.
The Dutch Slayer
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almost every day:
Soooooooooo much better than what passes as peanut butter in the States
You've never heard of bakery? wat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakery
European bakeries > all though.
Also Europeans dissing PB but talking about how awesome Nutella is are making me laugh.
Same as your thinking that nutella is awful dude... Sure it's sweet but who doesn't like fucking chocolate?
Lol..that must be about 500 calories per tablespoon.
It's excellent survival food, cant think of many other foodstuffs that pack so many calories into such a small space.
No, we don't. We have lookalikes, but nothing that even comes close, and definitely not in the "shittiest supermarkets".
As for me, I don't eat peanut butter but I sometimes cook with it (Thai peanut chicken mmmmm). When I'm in France I make my own peanut butter with peanuts and peanut oil. In the US it depends on if I'm lazy or not.
Cottage Cheese + strawberries, grapes, blueberries, rasberries = awesome.
Also, pear+blue cheese = yum
OT, peanut butter + jelly OR peanut butter + nutella. Both are a winning combination. Yay for more choices!
Cracker/bread with cheese (good kind, not kraft singles) and grapes = godly
I didn't realize that Europeans were so close-minded when it came to food. Seriously? You people are hating on peanut butter?
Sure, Nutella is good. It makes a heavenly snack when spread on graham-crackers. (Do you have graham-crackers in Europe?) But it is a completely different kind of spread than peanut butter. There is no reason whatsoever to bring it up as some kind of peanut-butter replacement.
Peanut butter isn't sweet. At all. It is salty and nutty. It works in various foods because it contrasts with sweetness. It goes amazingly well with chocolate, and peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches are a staple food-type for a reason.
It is the same reason that jelly and butter work so well together on toast: the saltiness of the butter contrasts the sweetness of the jam.
Also, peanut-butter cookies are one of the greatest kinds of cookie mankind has ever invented. They might even surpass the lofty chocolate chip cookie.
For the record, the terms jelly and jam are both used in the US. By technical definition, jelly is the form of fruit spread made only with fruit-juice. Jam is the type made with real fruit. There is also preserves, which is a kind of chunky jam made with large pieces of whole fruit. However, in colloquial use, jelly is used as a catch-all for all forms of fruit spread. I prefer using strawberry preserves with my peanut-butter on sandwiches.
Sure, Nutella is good. It makes a heavenly snack when spread on graham-crackers. (Do you have graham-crackers in Europe?) But it is a completely different kind of spread than peanut butter. There is no reason whatsoever to bring it up as some kind of peanut-butter replacement.
Peanut butter isn't sweet. At all. It is salty and nutty. It works in various foods because it contrasts with sweetness. It goes amazingly well with chocolate, and peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches are a staple food-type for a reason.
It is the same reason that jelly and butter work so well together on toast: the saltiness of the butter contrasts the sweetness of the jam.
Also, peanut-butter cookies are one of the greatest kinds of cookie mankind has ever invented. They might even surpass the lofty chocolate chip cookie.
For the record, the terms jelly and jam are both used in the US. By technical definition, jelly is the form of fruit spread made only with fruit-juice. Jam is the type made with real fruit. There is also preserves, which is a kind of chunky jam made with large pieces of whole fruit. However, in colloquial use, jelly is used as a catch-all for all forms of fruit spread. I prefer using strawberry preserves with my peanut-butter on sandwiches.
US Nutella is disgusting compared to EU Nutella though. It's the same with Coke and other sodas. It's definitely worth the premium to buy imported EU Nutella here if you can.
SolidusDave
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Apparently it can also vary within EU countries. I've read most people prefer Italian or German Nutella.
lol..I always thought the only Americans that use 'Jam' are those that like to sound more..sophisticated.
Pfft...that's just national pride & snobbery kicking in, all these pan-European multi-country brands are made to the same recipe and standards.
There may well be differences in recipes used between US & Europe because of different standards on contents and additives, but Europe.?, no its all pretty much standardised these days.
ScreenSplitter
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Well you don't even have fruit squash, just kool-aid. The fuck's wrong with you?
I'm only familiar with Calve Pindakaas (preferably the one with peanuts snippets). How much different is it from US peanut butter?
BTW the idea of combining peanut butter with jam sounds horrible to me.
Dr.Guru of Peru
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Uh, yes. It is absolutely because of choking. There is no evidence to show that witholding peanuts from diet can prevent peanut allergies. If anything, its the opposite.
I tend to find it's the complete opposite.
Sickboy007
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Italian and German Nutella are different in texture and taste. German Nutella is much more solid, probably because of the differences in bread type.
I wouldn't say the US is close minded when it comes to food.
Kitsunebaby
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Wait, are you claiming you've never spread some jam on a buttered piece of toast? It's delicious.
Pretty sure that was sarcasm. We have plenty of bakeries in the US. Some better than others, just like in Europe.
What the hell kind of misinformation is this?
I never said it was. Just pointing out that calling ''Europeans'' close minded when it comes to food is pretty ridiculous. Europe as a whole is home to some of the most varied, diverse and best tasting food on the planet.
frankie_baby
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You obviously didn't read the post I made after that one, its nothing to do with prevention of allergies its just to make reactions easier to deal with (and less likely to be fatal)
Ah, sorry, thought you were saying something else entirely.
CornBurrito
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I'm a weirdo who actually likes Hershey's "chocolate." Nutella tastes awful to me.
I don't like jam though
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