On Wed 05 Aug 2009 01:52:09p, Jean B. told us...

> sf wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:06:02 -0500, Omelet > wrote:
>>
>>> In article >,
>>> "Ophelia" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> sf wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:27:37 +0100, "Ophelia"
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Banana sandwiches
>>>>>>> don't forget the peanut butter!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and peanut butter & dill pickles.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or peanut butter and honey... the list goes on. Peanut butter is a
>>>>>>> wonderful springboard. <happy sigh>
>>>>>> I am not quite sure how I tell you this.. but I don't like peanut
>>>>>> butter auuughhhhh! I'm hit! but, but.. it's greasy and
>>>>>> lumpy.....................
>>> Huh? What brand have you tried? I buy peanut butter mostly for
>>> poisoning the local Norway rats by mixing it with pelleted bait to get
>>> them to eat it up faster (less time spent doing carcass patrol in the
>>> mornings once they start dying) but the generic smooth peanut butter I
>>> purchase is smooth as silk. Almost like a peanut butter frosting.
>>>
>>> It's delicious but I'm still avoiding eating fattening stuff like that.
>>
>> She probably buys that yucky "natural" stuff... the kind you have to
>> stir and keep in the refrigerator after it's opened. Hubby bought
>> some, thinking he was doing me a favor. *Hated* it. Yuck. Cold,
>> natural, unsalted peanut butter sucks. I want my salt and sugar too.
>>
> I don't need the sweetness, but I do like the salt. In fact, I
> usually mix in more salt now, since I have to stir it anyway. I
> used to prefer Wild Oats' organic chunky PB. Now my daughter
> prefers Trader Joe's (unfortunately, their only organic chunky PB
> is made from Valencia peanuts). I have just discovered Teddie's
> natural, which is rather good but undersalted. I recently bought
> their PB that contains flax seeds too, but I haven't yet tried it.
> Unfortunately that isn't ultra-chunky.
>

What's wrong with Valencia peanuts? Something we should all know?

--
Wayne Boatwright
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They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure
with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of
garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in
heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. Luigi Barzini