Peanut Butter: Sweet Or Not?

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So then, this is apparently an eternal debate on ILE (I can recall at least three threads it's come up on, most recent the Sweetshop one). Peanut butter, is it sweet or not? Does it work with chocolate? Jam? Honey? MARSHMALLOW FLUFF?

― Ally, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never eaten peanut butter. But I wanted to answer anyway.

― james, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Peanut butter is indeed sweet and works with tons of things. especially chocolate. James, how could you have never eaten it?

― Samantha, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course it's sweet. People who say it isn't are just being silly.

― Sean, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd say peanut butter is sweet and consequently it complements savoury things well, such as celery and carrots. A bit like curry and mango chutney if you like to think of it that way.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's sweet in context. With chocolate, the chocolate seems sweeter (or is that more sugary?). With celery, the peanut butter seems sweeter. Etc.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you're talking Skippy, sure it's sweet. There's tons of sugar in that stuff. But natural peanuts & salt PBs are not really sweet, more "rich & salty." The good ol' fat & salt combo. Good with everything.

― Mark, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

savoury! is US peanut butter sweeter? and just the thought of it with chocolate, jam, MARMITE (ugh!) is disgusting. it def works with salady things though. tomatoes, cucumber etc

― m jemmeson, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tomatoes?!? I should reserve judgement I suppose but it sounds odd.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Both.

It can be used as a nice stir-fry sauce base too... combine with ginger and black beans.

― Brian MacDonald, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate the stuff. You make me sick.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

where i come from, you can get sweetened peanut butter and unsweetened peanut butter. i prefer it sweetened.

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sweet, but heavy and sweet, not light. Also very fatty. It works with chocolate, jam, and honey, but NOTHING works with marshmallow fluff.

― Maria, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it is obviously both. the added salt can make peanut butter part of a tasty savoury snack (i reiterate its joyous pairing potential with marmite, as well as pointing out the obvious satay sauce connection) AND as part of a sweet thing eg, with jam (though i draw the line at that hideous marshmallow fluff goo nonsense). you can also get it unsalted i believe.

Rick said earlier that there are no peanut sweets but i refer you to PEANUT BRITTLE (ie, nonsalted, roasted peanuts embedded in caremelised sugar for the uninitiated). it's *ace*.

― katie, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

These 'sweets' you speak of that contain peanuts are FALSE SWEETS. Futhermore, I would like to reiterate that peatnut butter is not sweet.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it can be unsalted and thus sweet! and even the salty variety is somewhat sweet! so there!

― katie, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Saying that peanut butter with jam is "disgusting" is just about this silliest thing I've ever heard.

― Sean, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Peanut butter tastes good with marshmallow fluff. However, TOMATOES???????????????

― Ally, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Peanut butter or as the French call it Beurre de Peanut lol is both sweet and salty as well. Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

peanut butter just is. US peanut butter is much sweeter than UK in my experience, but then sunpat is sweeter than whole earth american style which in turn is sweeter than the very savory meridian. all are quite salty

― Ed, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sweet. I think it's the only food I'm allergic to. So, of course, I crave it. Haagen Daz used to have this great vanilla/peanut butter swirl flavor, why the hell did they take it off the market? I've tried making my own but it's just not the same. Marshmallow fluff and sweet potato are the only foods that make me gag every time.

― Arthur, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

peanut butter r GROSE mmmppph nasty smelly stuff invading nostrils. maybe it has use as spackle. that's as far as i'm willing to go.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Essentially this thread is "America: Classic Or Dud"

Peanuts are not sweet. Butter is not sweet. So where does this 'sweetness' come from?? I am shoulder to shoulder with Ricky T here, except on the marmite issue.

― Tom, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ok, then, peanut butter on cucumbers, tomatoes, and with Marmite surely means England = Dud!

― Sean, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Um, butter is sweet, unless you get salted butter. Regardless, peanut butter is not made out of peanuts + butter!

― Ally, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

>>>So where does this 'sweetness' come from??

the sugar tom, the sugar.

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you must distinguish betwixt "pb au naturel" and Peter Pan, type : the latter is more sugarish

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fluffernutter is the food of the gods . minor gods like fatnick rather the major Gods like Hanle y though

― anthony, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

not *mixed* with tomatoes - just a nice white bread peanut butter sandwich, together with a salad containing tomatoes, etc.

marmite is dud, full stop. and butter in the UK is usually salted, and never noticeably sweet. and peanut butter is quite salty too.

― m jemmeson, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Brian - your peanut butter stir fry sauce sounds marvellous... any more info? I can imagine trying it by trial and error and getting a congealed lump in the bottom of the pan... actually, a lot of my meals end up like that, so no change there.

― Andrew Williams, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BUTTER IS NOT SWEET, YOU MENTALIST!

Then again in that Americkley things are DIFFERENT. I give the worst example in the world ever: AMERICAN WHITE BREAD. *shudder*

Peanut butter is savoury with a bitter and burning aftertaste because IT IS NOWT BUT BLENDED VOM.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

peanut butter is simply delicious, the crunchier the better, but not that rancid whole earth stuff, that's a bit too wholesome. My favourite = sunpat crunchy (although I like Jif but it's hard to get hold of here) with Nutella on thick sliced white bread, yum.

― chris, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is American white bread the same as that vile Bimbo stuff you get in France and Spain?

― RickyT, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For that is truly disgusting.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So it seemed to me. I learnt my lesson very quickly. It was absolutely NGG *GRIT TEETH*.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

have we even touched the minefield that is licorice?

VAguely connected to this is sweet v salt popcorn. I was knocked backwards by my canuck friends who insist on having a mix of both. this was something that hadn't previously occurred to me as physically or even logically possible, leave alone desirable. ridicule at the expense of my deluded canuck companions ensued. the larst larf r on me tho, as it is fan- (and quite probably) -tastic. i urge you to do the sweet/salt mix now. before you die.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stir-fry base: Peanut butter with ginger, garlic, chilli & sesame oil. Yum. Sweet peanut butter (eg. Kraft) is better for this.

I hate natural peanut butter with a passion but I love the Kraft smooth stuff - with the salt and the sugar

― toraneko, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anyone know the name of the phobia about getting peanut butter stuck on the roof of your mouth? I think I genuinely have it, because I love peanut butter but never eat it now in case it sticks there.

cenosilicaphobia is the fear of empty glasses, by the way.

― chris, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

RickyT, AMerican white bread can be all kinds of things from sub mothers pride pan de mie style rubbish (which we also have in spades, sliced bread being the devil's own), to gorgeous rye's and sourdoughs (If anyone can find me a recipe for sourdough online It's be much apreciated). Peanut butter on toasted and buttered sourdough, or on a toasted bagel, mmmmmmm

― Ed, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BUTTER IS NOT SWEET, YOU MENTALIST!

Clearly, in Britain, ALL FOOD IS MADE WITH TONS OF SALT. Because natural unsalted butter IS sweet. Just like whole milk IS sweet (that's why putting half and half in coffee instead of skim makes the coffee notably less bitter). You HAVE to add salt to butter to make it not sweet. There are tons of natural sugars in animal milk.

British people do not know anything about foods, is my only conclusion based upon this thread. They seem to not understand that things can be salted and thus NOT their natural form and no longer sweet, and they seem not to understand that things can also in turn be sweetened and become a sweet food.

But this is to be expected because all your food is crap and you think things like regular tea and scones are good ;P

― Ally, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's as maybe, but peanut butter has no natural form.

― Tom, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, regular tea and scones are good! And I'm not even british. I just love food.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, but salted butter is the stuff that's not so good and the salt is used to hide the fact, apart from that gorgeous french butter with the flecks of sea salt in it. I am British and I know my food, as my expanding wasteline will agree.

― chris, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Peanut butter is rank, I've always hated it. My dad used to make peanut butter and mayo sandwiches. Gross.

However in saté it's a good thing.

Butter: I love Lurpak lightly salted.

― suzy, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

peanut butter and mayo does sound rank.

peanut butter on toast is a yummy breakfast. as is peanut butter on apples.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, salt is definitely added to certain butters, but that doesn't stop the fact that it has to be added to make butter non-sweet.

Tom: Peanuts mashed up = peanut butter. Therefore peanut butter has a natural form. Just not a particularly tasty one. But it's not bitter or savoury, unsalted, plain roasted peanuts are not...I don't know what you'd call that sort of taste.

Let's just face facts here, 90% of nuts in their natural unsalted form = faintly sweet. Almonds, macadamia nuts, walnuts, peanuts, they make ice cream out of pistachios, pecans are used for pie, even pignolis are faintly sweet.

― Ally, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Peanut butter is found in natural form churning in peoples BELLIES. It becomes unnatural when it is violently hurled out of belly. Some people flush it down the loo or do it on peoples carpets. Some evil people put it in jars and call it "peanut butter". Which is just WRONG as packets of peanuts = mmmmmmmmmmm. Peanut butter = yuuuuurgh.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have tried and tried and tried to ignore your insistance on bringing vomit and feces into the discussion, but no longer can I ignore it after that post. That's disgusting, Sarah! What are you doing to me, are you trying to make me puke? Arrrgh. I am now going to hijack my own thread and turn it into a discussion of the French.

They wear berets and smoke a lot. They like to put cats on posters, especially ones that drink chocolatey milk. They are famous for cheese but if you ask me they should be famous for moustaches.

― Ally, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like to think all French women look like the female leads in Kieslowski's trilogy of Blue, White, and Red.

― bnw, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

peanuts are not a sweet nut though! they are a salty pub snack! (or sometimes dry roasted, as part of a more balanced pub diet).

obv. the peanuts in Snickers bars are some special American sweet variety designed to confuse.

i am now off to eat a lump of butter to see whether it's sweet or not.

― m jemmeson, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have tried and tried and tried to ignore your insistance on bringing vomit and feces into the discussion

Behold! The ILE manifesto!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, French women all look like Sophie Marceau. French men all look like Gerard Depardieu.

― Ally, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm. I know a french guy who looks like William DaFoe.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

...who of course looks like Gerard Depardieu. Proven!

― Ally, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In that case, why not just say that all french men look like William DaFoe? Huh? Huh? Huh?

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He's not as famous.

― Ally, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Prove it.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Depreideu and DaFoe do not look alike.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They are identical twins.

Proof: Willem DaFoe has a weird spelt name.

― ALly, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, you're clearly smoking crack. Gerard dippy-do
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― Samantha, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But Gerard's is weirder spelt. Proof? He's french. French people have funny looking names.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

See! Proof, they look exactly alike.

― Ally, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

peanut butter: salmonella: apple butter: chlamydia

― M.V., Thursday, 22 January 2009 00:11 (sixteen years ago)

Some peanut butter is sweeter than other peanut butter

― nabisco, Thursday, 22 January 2009 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

Which is also true of, I dunno, chocolate

― nabisco, Thursday, 22 January 2009 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

Uh, if you add sugar to it, it's sweet. If not, it isn't.

― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 January 2009 02:09 (sixteen years ago)

It is important to understand that pre-sweetened peanut butter isn't all that.

― Dr More BS (libcrypt), Thursday, 22 January 2009 02:54 (sixteen years ago)

Best PB = just ground peanuts. No sugar, no salt, no oil.

― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 January 2009 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

Oil? Who adds oil to peanut butter?

― Dr More BS (libcrypt), Thursday, 22 January 2009 02:56 (sixteen years ago)

Unless you mean partially-hydrogenated.

― Dr More BS (libcrypt), Thursday, 22 January 2009 02:56 (sixteen years ago)

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