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

[bob]

marg then peanut butter. peanut butter doesnt soak into the bread as well. escpailly since i normally use crunchy peanut butter

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I think you might have just identified the point of disconnect for me. I am an ultra-fresh bread fetishist, and don't particularly like bog standard plain white sliced. I will basically only eat bread that is less than 12 hours old. I buy mini baguettes, petit pains, crusty and soft white rolls, and bloomers with poppy or sesame seeds on. If I get any of these as baked in-store (or part-baked finish at home) bread and it feels right on the outside, the inside is so soft and fluffy that there's no problem about the spread not soaking in.

Of course, this doesn't help with what Tim & Peter do - because they have a bread maker and only ever eat ultra-fresh bread too. Hmmm.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

And bagels! How could I have forgotten bagels? Bagels fresh from the bagel stand that were baked half an hour ago = Heaven!

[bob]

s/bread/toast/

i very rarely eat peanut butter on just bread. the only time is on the ends of fresh loaves.