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Janet Wilder[_4_] Janet Wilder[_4_] is offline
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Default Powdered Peanut Butter?

On 7/28/2014 3:11 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:29:43 -0700, sf wrote:
>
>> Does anyone use it? Perusing items I can have delivered via Google
>> Shopping Express and powdered peanut butter was listed by Whole Foods.
>> Say, what??? I am Googling for recipes and found one for chocolate
>> chip peanut butter cookies that sounds good. How do you use it?

>
> Powdered Peanut Butter, such as that "PB2" crap, is terrible stuff.
> It's what's leftover after they've extracted 97% of the oil from the
> peanuts for use as cooking coil. It's nothing like peanut butter and
> should be avoided at all costs.
>
> That PB2 crap is pure marketing bullshit. They charge $6.50 for a
> 16fl.oz jar when it literally costs them about $.04 plus the cost of
> packaging.
>
> -sw
>


Does anyone remember the big cans of dark peanut butter from the US
Government surplus? When I was a camp counselor we would steal a can
fro the kitchen and sit around it with big spoons. That was the best
peanut butter I've ever had.

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