What Is Your Favorite Brand Of Peanut Butter?
By Suldog - Wed, 07/16/2008 - 3:27pm.
Skippy
27% (64 votes)
Jif
18% (44 votes)
Peter Pan
6% (14 votes)
Reese's
3% (6 votes)
Teddie's
29% (70 votes)
Smucker's
2% (5 votes)
Whatever Cheapo Store Brand Is On Sale
6% (14 votes)
I Make My Own By Crushing Peanuts With Big Boulders
5% (13 votes)
Aaarrgghh! Peanuts! Even Taking A Survey About Them Puts My Life In Danger!
3% (8 votes)
Total votes: 238
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Smooth Operator by Peanut & Co
In the health food section at Stop & Shop
[x] I wish Suldog (who often
[x] I wish Suldog (who often posts "git yer own blog and off mah damn lawn") had posted this on his own blog, especially since it has nothing to do with Boston or the news
Excuse Me?
"Suldog (who often posts "git yer own blog and off mah damn lawn")
Whuh? OK, I admit it. I'm thick. What in hell are you talking about?
As for the subject pertaining to Boston, see the thread "Where'd All The Reese's Peanut Butter Go?" If you've got a problem with discussing peanut butter, go there and diss Adam for bringing it up.
(Of course, I could get all "Nyah, Nyah! You'll have to have a REAL name soon!" but that would just be gratuitous.)
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Actually, no.
Suldog (and Garrett, too, I have to admit. Wish HE would start a blog as I think he has a lot of good, interesting things to say. Also am tickled by how he chains his words together.) are two of my favorite commenters and are about two of the absolute least anal-gestapo types here. You're probably mistaking him (Suldog, that is - love his blog! Discovered it here!) for the not-quite got her meds tweaked right yet, handicapped (not Handicapped! Handi-Capable!) Lesbian "activist" social worker or maybe the "you can take the girl out of the trailer, but you can't take the trailer...etc" crank with PhDs from all the Ivies and secondary schools in the NE.
That said: Hannaford's has a storebrand peanut butter with no sugar and no trans fats. It's amazing. Since I don't have a car, it's hard to get to a Hannafords, so I just walk over to the Central Square co-op to grind my own. Love the smell. Love the taste. Love the mouth-feel. MMh.
Sorry for the wordiness. Sorry for the political incorrectness. Sorry for the bad punctuation.
I like Suldog - I think you
I like Suldog - I think you have him confused with Gareth, who is quite cranky and brings little to the table other than a strong desire to play tummysticks.
Great poll, Suldog. As if we needed confirmation that this blog is frequented by a bunch of health food junkies/hippies - Teddie is winning! :)
I don't understand the fascination with Skippie, which tastes artificial to me - though I do love Jif, if I can't find Teddie. WholeFoods 365 brand is pretty good as well.
I have never tried Reese's peanut butter, sans the delicious chocolate "packaging."
another choice
Please add this choice to the poll: I'm a grown-up now and I'm not so concerned about peanut butter anymore.
Maybe you should be...
There are many health benefits of peanut-butter:
http://www.femhealth.com/benefitsofpeanuts.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/11/06/cl.healthful.foods/index.html
http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=101
Oh, and Teddie's for the win...I used to be Trader Joe's faithful when it came to peanut-butter until I had Teddie's.
What does being a grown up
What does being a grown up have to do with liking peanut buttere -especially nowadays when it's practically a capital offense to bring a peanut product anywhere near a school?
And why is it "Teddie's" but not "Skippy's" and "Jif's"?
:-p
revised
Please add this choice to the poll:
I'm a grown-up now andI'm not so concerned about peanut butter anymore.I'm from Australia and friends called me Skippy when I started school here so it stuck.
Skippy: you have to
Skippy: you have to understand. Peanut Butter is our Vegemite.
fair enough
Cosmopolitan Anon, I get the picture. But I must report, I've left my taste for that behind as well.
No doubt.
Admittedly, I'd want to forget all memories of nutritional yeast sandwiches, as well.
However, Comfort Food is a wonderfully universal topic.
Hmm...tell you what, since the issue seems to be 'Adult Tastes:" Australia's subsidized very heavily its current wine industry. Would love more advice about that. To keep stuff germane to the original topic: what (Southeast Coast?) white would you pair with my Teddie Thai Peanut Noodles?
Seriously. I'm not being snarky. What white would go well with rice noodles coated with peanut butter, sugar, rice vinegar, garlic, chili, shredded carrot and scallions?
try a Riesling with lime notes
Off hand, I'd say try an aromatic dry Riesling with lime notes and hints of earth and dust following.
http://www.winestar.com.au/category24_1.htm
*drool*
The citrusey-ness (am trying to avoid the pretentious-sounding 'citrus notes') would offset the peanut fatiness really nicely.
Thanks! I'm a huge fan of Eastern French/Saar-Ruhr and even Eastern European Rieslings...didn't know of any good Australian ones, though. (Don't much like a lot of the CA/NY ones. Too sugary.)
Further good Kid/Adult Food Combos:
Chocolate (as dark as possible) and Scotch (or Irish) Whiskey.
A Guinness with the best Vanilla ice cream available locally float.
Cherries (fresh, pitted are my favorite) with a bit of leftover red wine and either vanilla ice cream or yoghurt
Bailey's Pudding Cake.
Etc, etc.
Especially since peanut
Especially since peanut butter has been all but banned for kids by the People Who Know Better Than You (or me).
My kid had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich today
So I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Course you don't. It's just
Course you don't. It's just like Naomi Klein not understanding how GWB could be elected, as nobody she knew voted Republican.
In a lot of schools, peanuts are banned due to the potential risk of allergies. In my facility, peanut butter isn't allowed for that reason. (Doesn't stop a lot of us from sneaking stuff in, though. Doesn't stop the vending machine from being stocked with snickers bars, either.)
Oh, chew on this
I'm fully aware of peanut allergies: My daughter's best friend has one and, yes, most of the classrooms at her school now have a "peanuts banned" sign and, yes, we have to be careful when sending in brownies or other stuff like that.
So? Nice to know that you're willing to take a risk with the health of others. I'm willing to send the kid to school with a turkey sandwich instead and let her eat peanut butter at home.
True Colors
Oh, Adamg. Why do you hate America so?
You know who else likes turkey sandwiches? AL QUAEDA!
Putting aside the poster's
Putting aside the poster's hyperbole, search "peanut butter ban."
Adam's hyperbole or what you
Adam's hyperbole or what you perceive to be as mine?
Mind you, I know one can't fight City Hall, so, as far as I'm concerned, this topic's over.
toast with butter & peanut butter
is something I have for dinner when I work late & have little time to prepare something.
It's sooo satisfying.
What Kristine said.
Good peanut butter (ie without sugar and hydrogenated oils) is very nutritious and offers the "good" monounsaturated fat which is burned as energy and promotes heart health and helps manage cholesterol. It's also a good source of protein.
Presuming no allergies, it's good for you and good for kids. You don't have to like it, but it does offer grown-up nutrition and health benefits.
PBJ on a mountain peak - ahhhhhhh, goodness
Nothing like a PBJ after hiking to the top of a nice peak, sitting there checking the views out. PB has nothing to do with "growing up" or having more refined tastes.
Missing a choice
Trader Joe's peanut butter is the best, and cheapest. If I can't get to TJ's and there's a PB emergency, then I will buy Teddie's (made right in beautiful Everett!).
My mom used to buy Teddie's when we were kids, which I thought was a complete scandal 'cause all the other kids got Peter Pan or Jif, and they didn't have to stir it first. Now I know my mom loved me more than their moms loved them. ;-P
Another missing choice
I buy the Kirkland brand of organic peanut butter from Costco. It's like Teddie's, but better.
Teddie's
The pride of Everett!
Kirkland
I'm wearing their pants.
So where is Adam?? Normally
So where is Adam?? Normally we have more blog posts, hope all is well.
All is well
Just doing some traveling; sorry for the reduced number of posts, but thanks for asking.
I just realized its kind of
I just realized its kind of crazy for me to have expected you to constantly be posting new posts for our amusement lol, its not like Im paying for it or anything!
Teddies...
ALL THE WAY!!!
What about...
...Goober Grape?!! Peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. Cuts my PB&J preparation time in half.
LOL, Chris Rock said:
The cheapest my mother ever got was when she bought peanut butter with jelly in the same jar. How low can you go? ... That's like buying shoes with the socks built in.
Kraft
Kraft peanut butter is my favorite. They don't sell it in the U.S. so we stock up whenever we go to Canada.
sounds like it would have
sounds like it would have cheese in it!
you can order online:
http://www.canadianfavourites.com/Kraft_Peanut_Butter_p/kraft004.htm
Trader Joe's here, too
Trader Joe's - the organic 'made with valencia peanuts!' kind, crunchy version. Yum.
Smuckers is for suckers.
Smuckers is for suckers. ...two votes.
Oh
Oh,before anybody gets bent out of shape or tells me to use paragraphs or punctuate properly, or complains about starting the post with "oh"; it's a joke. Well, it's not really a joke, it's a rhyme, a rhyme with a balanced meter.
If we start talking about
If we start talking about Fluff™ maybe Steve LeVeille or Jarret Barrios will drop by.
Fluff festival
Somerville's having another one on Saturday, September 27.
Fluff Stuff
MY WIFE and I attended the first one a while back. It was fun.
The oddest part of it - aside from the entire concept, I mean - was that I found a new snack that sounds absolutely disgusting, but is actually fantastic.
There was a fellow there handing out samples of his culinary invention which involved Fluff. It consisted of Fluff mixed with canned tuna and hot sauce, served on a saltine.
I know. It sounds amazingly gross. I tried it only so I could say that I had tried the most disgusting snack on the face of the planet. But it was one of the most delicious snacks I've ever had! I've since mixed up small batches of it at home and enjoyed it immensely.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Whole Foods
My wife brought home some Whole Foods organic last night. Totally delicious.
Mea Culpa & A Serious Question
Obviously, I missed some very important choices. My apologies to the Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, etc., fans.
Insofar as peanut allergies are concerned, does anybody here know why there are so many kids with them? What I mean is that I don't remember there ever being any kids keeling over from eating peanuts when I was a child. And everybody I knew ate PB&J, both at school and in my neighborhood, and every other attendee at Fenway bought a bag of the things.
Seriously - no snark intended - why is there a seeming increase in peanut allergies? Is it just reporting of incidents? Or is something else at work here? Anybody know?
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Theory...
I read in article recently (maybe in Newsweek?) about how perhaps the large amount of peanut allergies these days COULD be because of all the antibiotics, antibacterial soaps, and overall germophobia our society has right now is damaging immune systems.
I may have written that wrong, but that was what I understood (and remember) from the article. And it was just a theory.
it's our sanitation
According to the scientist who was front-page on the Science Times (NYT Tuesday section last week, I think), it's that we no longer live with worms inside us.
too clean.
the theory is: the worms don't want to be rejected by your immune system, so they secrete stuff that calms it down--and the scientist (sorry, blanking on the name, maybe because he self-treated with them) thinks it "cures" allergies.
Including peanut ones.
well, long, long ago -
well, long, long ago - people ate mostly local foods
not so very long ago, people died from their allergies. EpiPens, etc are more prevelant now, as is allergy protocol.
and now, so many things are pre-packaged - even gummi bears come with the warning that there may be traces of peanuts in their products. A generation or two ago, there was less exposure to nuts - if you knew you were allergic, you could avoid them..it's not the same now.
it may be the same number of allergies, just more people (larger population rate), and more people surviving with their allergies.
it's not limited to peanut allergies...other diseases and conditions have had increased numbers, not necessarily rates, but more people, better diagnostic tools, and better awareness make it seem like there are increased rates
another theory in the news
another theory
in the news today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7505682.stm
test
test
eating peanuts daily during pregnancy increases asthma in child
Careful ...
Urban populations in the study cities have greater access to peanuts as a cheap protein source than rural populations and are not exposed to the same endotoxin levels shown to prevent asthma development.
It would be interesting if they can confirm this in the birth cohort run by the Channing lab. I have a strong suspicion that it is a confounded study, knowing what I do about these cities.
Darn those uncontrolled variables!
Can't everybody just eat peanuts equally? It would make science so much simpler! How unfair for poor people to eat more of cheaper protein sources!
It is a fascinating subject. Clearly, there has been an increase in allergic diseases such as asthma, and the suggestions are strong that maternal environment and diet may contribute to this somehow. It seems there's still a gap between understanding how the process may work and being able to develop an adequate response. What do pregnant mothers need? More yogurt? More fruit?
In any case, fewer peanuts seems unlikely to be the right answer.