Why isn't peanut butter called "nutter"?

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Only colloquially, mind, not at brand level.
I've often wondered this. Now it's driving me mad.

― 39 Steps + 40 Winks (39 Steps + 40 Winks), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it is in Fluffernutter sammiches!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

fluffernutter sandwiches = godlike

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

What the firespitting fuck is a fluffernutter sandwich?

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I like nuttin' honey sammiches, myself.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"c'mon people now
smile on your brother
everybody grab a sweater,
try to luuv fluffernutters right now"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

For the same reason Kinder Eggs aren't called Keggs.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Because when Americans say it, it sounds too much like "nudder," which is what we call a very small woman's breast.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit, I forget - of course there's 100 different names for it in the States. I meant in the UK.

To be fair, I'd imagine that the reason is not quite the same as the reason why Kinder Eggs aren't called "Keggs".

― 39 Steps + 40 Winks (39 Steps + 40 Winks), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

AGGGHHHH!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

How about "nut butter"?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

A fluffernutter is a sanwich made with peanut butter and marshmallow fluff.
Don't tell me you don't have marshmallow fluff over there.

― Sengai, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Nutter"?! "NUTTER"?!

*snort* Some of these are just far too easy....

*laughs at Lyskey's photo manipulation*

― Pancakes For Breakfast! (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I trust everyone is aware of the great Limpert Brothers / Durkee-Mower marshmallow partition act of 1939: the story

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"LUMPERT?!"

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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