I buy squeeze jelly because the campus-affiliated market that I have a meal plan for only sells jelly in squeeze bottles. Though it's nice how it saves a spoon, it's a bit of a pain to operate. Especially the grape flavor.
GRAPE-jelly in a squeezy, ketchup-style plastic bottle mixed with plastic bottle peanut butter in a standard-issue IKEA bowl, only then applied between two non-wholegrain, untoasted toasts.
Can someone add a YEAH, a guitar, an eagle and the US-American flag as effects?
Nope, that's not American traditional, and you can't put that concoction on us.
Also, it's really a stretch to call peanut butter "infamous sugar cream". It's got like 3g of sugar per 30g peanut butter. That's pretty close to just plain peanuts. It's not Nutella with it's 50% sugar content.
You avoid eating too much peanut butter because peanuts are basically little nuggets of oil with the minimum amount of fiber and protein required for them to be a solid.
I hear you. That said, Skippy makes a traditional (must stir) version in a glass jar. It's decent, by our available standards (I've never had foreign pb). But the last time I bought Smuker's strawberry spread it had hfcs instead of cane sugar. >:( So I went back to raw honey.
Peanut butter is actually less popular outside of the US than you would imagine, given how much of a staple it is here.
Countries that don't grow a lot of peanuts tend to eat way fewer of them, and places that do, largely central and southeast Asia, tend to go more of a saucy direction with their peanuts, or chopped and crushed.
Having had the gamut of different peanut butters, I really don't think the small amount of oil and molasses used to keep everything integrated is bringing down the quality. Needing to stir it doesn't make it better for me.
Wouldn't be surprised if it actually changed the flavour a bit.
That's one way to make the "secret sauce" for burgers. Just ketchup, yellow mustard, mayo and sometimes relish. Mixing them before adding to the burger changes the taste considerably.
My grandma used to mix the PB & J together for me when I was a kid because I didn't like peanut butter. I still kinda like it that way because it reminds me of her.
When we had field trips in early grade school, this is how they served the supplied PB&J's. I guess it kept the jelly from soaking into the bread while the sandwiches sat in a cooler for 4 hours.
That not really meant for sandwiches though. That's meant for eating straight out of the jar with a dirty spoon at 4am while your standing in the kitchen in your underwear.
This pic is some dystopic stuff. How can you eat those fake mixtures full of chemistry? Is this what people in USA eat? Even the bread looks like it would never spoil.
The jelly is made with corn syrup, but otherwise doesn't contain "scary chemicals". It contains pectin, citric acid, and sodium citrate, which are completely natural things to be in jam or jelly. Pectin is traditionally boiled from apples, citric acid traditionally comes from lemons, sodium citrate is essentially just lemon juice and baking soda.
The only dystopian bits are the corn syrup and the scale these foods are made at. Calling them "fake mixtures full of chemistry" just makes it sound like you don't know that all food is chemistry.
Idk the only jam I eat is one made by my grandma from fruits bought from farmers on the market so there is that. I once tried the supermarket one and they are all horrible and kinda synthetic
I don’t really care if ingredients are theoretically safe no more than I would eat a theoretically nutritious protein powder daily.
I avoid food that was made in factory generally it always feels synthetic and like a cheap, horrible substitute compared to the rich flavour of the real thing.
So it is kind of dystopic for me to see such poor substitute for ‘food’ being the only choice. You could as well as go all in and eat some flavoured nutrient NASA pasta.
What else is fake in this world of ours we don’t even notice anymore? How much fakeness one can take until it’s no longer life but only survival?
Not a crime. I used to mix peanut butter in my low fat, unflavored, Greek yogurt and then mix in jam. I did this after weight training as a high protein breakfast. The jam just added some flavor and sweetness.
That's true. I have a friend who works at Smuckers and he says there's a lot of engineering and testing. Even the regular peanut butter has to be checked for consistency... they use a "penetration tester" tool and he has to keep from laughing because it looks very inappropriate.
I'll do this every once in a while, this person hardly used any peanut butter though. Either that or the dye in his jelly is crazy, cuz when I do it it ends up looking like a slightly darker peanut butter. Unless I don't mix it enough? Cuz I like leaving little clumps of jelly. But then yeah, you just dip little bits of bread, or crackers, or if you're as insane as I am you just eat it like a snack.
Know what's REALLY insane though? Mixing cottage cheese and applesauce. That shit is delicious.
I did this when Smucker's "Goobers" first came out and my mom wouldn't buy it.
It's just a waste of time; doesn't affect the taste. It is however better than Goobers; it's super weird and almost plastic tasting. They did something to the jelly and use an almost candy-like peanut butter that makes it worse than the cheapest individual PB & J's. Absolutely hated it when I finally got to try it.
I’ve separately eaten both skippy and pbj before, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to hold the opinion that this is wasted effort. Skippy’s packed with enough sugar to suffice as a fat/protein/carb macro dump.