Could you live without peanut butter?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
European - I never eat it.

do you ever eat nutella?

NP. I don’t eat peanut butter or Nutella.

[Anonymous]

I don’t like peanut butter so I do live without it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would survive without it, but I’d be sad. It’s delicious. Name your favorite foods, OP, so we can judge you. Fair is fair.

I understand it's many people's favorite food. But to eat it everyday and consider it a meal? I can't think of anything I would want to eat everyday. I certainly eat Nutella often as a kid, but it was an after school snack, in addition to 2 balanced meals, and not everyday.

Are there actual people that just eat peanut butter for a meal and nothing else?

Lots of kids do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a shelf stable protein.

Yes I could live without it, sure. It's just very convenient.

Shelf stable, good source of protein and relatively cheap. It's really hard to beat.
I also like bananas, milk and oatmeal. Boring, 20th century food for a certain slice of the old middle class.

[Anonymous]

I could not. I absolutely love it. Additionally, I'm a vegetarian so it's major source of protein for me.

[Anonymous]

I like it and would prefer not to live without it, but could (like if I had a family member with a severe allergy). There are staple goods in lots of countries--you could replace "peanut butter" with "rice" or "injera" or "potatoes" or "tea" or whatever if you were writing about another country. Peanut butter is a shelf-stable, high-protein, inexpensive food that complements savory or sweet items. You don't have to like it, but why do you care if other people do?

[Anonymous]

Now I want a PB sandwich.

[Anonymous]

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Why do you all eat so much peanut butter? There's a thread about odd food combinations and 90% of the suggestions are peanut butter + something. Most of them sound disgusting. In another thread people lamenting that you can't bring a jar of peanut butter on a plane. Let's not even talk about all the posts about "my kids will only eat PB or string cheese", "I have to bring PB to the park or my child will starve". My own SIL feeds her kids a PB sandwich every single day for lunch, even at home and on the weekends. Dinner is usually ramen noodles. Yuck. I can't think an equivalent in other cultures that people have to bring everywhere as an emotional support food. It's not like the French are bringing their own camembert on a plane.

Why do you care what other people like?

[Anonymous]

Yes I could live without it but it’s damn satisfying when I’m starving and need protein.

[Anonymous]

Yes- love it.

[Anonymous]

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Why do you all eat so much peanut butter? There's a thread about odd food combinations and 90% of the suggestions are peanut butter + something. Most of them sound disgusting. In another thread people lamenting that you can't bring a jar of peanut butter on a plane. Let's not even talk about all the posts about "my kids will only eat PB or string cheese", "I have to bring PB to the park or my child will starve". My own SIL feeds her kids a PB sandwich every single day for lunch, even at home and on the weekends. Dinner is usually ramen noodles. Yuck. I can't think an equivalent in other cultures that people have to bring everywhere as an emotional support food. It's not like the French are bringing their own camembert on a plane.

Peanut butter is versatile. You can use it as the primary filling in a sandwich, you can use it has a condiment (chicken satay with peanut dipping sauce), you can use it in savory dishes (peanut sesame noodles), you can use it in desserts (pb cups, pb cookies), you can use it in frozen items (ice cream).

[Anonymous]

My picky kid eats a ton of peanut butter . . . breakfast is peanut butter toast. Lunch is peanut butter sandwich. It is what it is.

[Anonymous]

I could and do. I just don't like PB that much

[Anonymous]

Could I live without it, yes. Do I like it, yes. It’s a very American thing so I get why others don’t, but there’s nothing wrong with it

[Anonymous]

Peanut butter travels very well, which is why people take it places like the park. French people bring Camembert to the park too, by the way.

It’s a great, portable, quick source of protein, like hummus. Are you similarly offended by hummus?