peanut butter problems

[baratron]

I've been meaning to post this poll for about a month, since the last time Tim & Peter came round and ate peanut butter at me...

[Poll #352174]

You see (in case it wasn't obvious from the wording of the poll), I have always treated peanut butter as butter, and put it directly onto bread. I do the same thing with almost everything I put on bread - chocolate spread and even jam (only Marmite gets put over a layer of non-dairy butterlike stuff). But Tim & Peter both put normal butter on first, then a fairly thin layer of peanut butter. I think this is strange and mutant behaviour!

Peter has an excuse in that he is Dutch, and has thus grown up calling p.butter "peanut cheese". But Tim has no excuse, and moreover thinks I am the weird one for not putting normal butter on first! So who is right? Or at least, who is more in line with what "normal" people do? ;)

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

The only logical explanation I've heard for buttering the bread first is that the added fat tends to keep the peanut butter-and-bread from sticking to the roof of one's mouth.

A friend who has this habit refers to it as "peanut butter lube."

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I'm often confused as to why people seem to need a, "logical explanation," for this sort of thing. It both tastes totally different with butter (I use margarine, but whatever) and has a different texture. If someone prefers it that why, how is that either logical or illogical? It's not really any different than choosing to have jam or not have jam, or choosing what kind of bread one prefers, choosing to insert or leave out any other options ingredient in any other recipe, etc.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's not that I think people need logical explanations for their food choices. It's just that was offered as one, and made a certain sort of sense.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

:) I've run into that one on the peanut butter and butter thing before, though, from other people, where they'll demand to know what function the butter serves, and it becomes really hard to explain the two concepts that: a) The butter serves the function of having butter in the sandwich; b) Peanut butter does not actually contain any butter, despite the name.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I think that's Tim's reason. I guess he can post here himself, though :)

I just drink vast quantities of water with my p.butter. I feel I need to do that anyway because p.butter is so salty, so, hmmm...

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

We buy all natural peanut butter (and/or grind our own peanut butter) which is vastly less salty, adding the butter actually adds a bit of saltiness to the mix as well (which I like, with the sweetness of the jam and the peanuttiness of the peanut butter).

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Yeah on the all-natural/low-salt stuff. I like stirring the oil into it, too.