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Chocolate and peanut butter are pretty good together. Just sayin'.

dgellow 6y ago
Wait, is chocolate and peanut butter really a thing?! That sounds quite horrible to my non-US ears. Edit: yep, an online search seems to say that's an actual thing. I guess I'm part of the ten thousand today https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/. I will never understand the US fascination for peanut butter.
- kd5bjo 6y ago
  > I will never understand the US fascination for peanut butter. At one point in history, US farmers were encouraged to grow peanuts as a rotation crop to improve soil quality. That led to a glut of peanuts in the market, so people tried to find uses for them. Peanut butter was invented+ as one of these uses, and has been a staple of American diets ever since. +Or promoted, I can’t remember
  - addHocker 6y ago
    They promoted soy family members for there self-fertilization attribute. https://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_a/A129/ https://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_a/A129/
- Gaelan 6y ago
  Reese's peanut butter cups [0] are a fairly popular "candy" item here. Try one if you get a chance, they're pretty tasty. [0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reeses-PB-Cups.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reeses-PB-Cups.jpg
- bonzini 6y ago
  As a European, sandwich with Nutella on one bread side and peanut butter on the other is awesome (except for your cholesterol).
  - pier25 6y ago
    and sugar...
- jholman 6y ago
  Chocolate and peanut butter is amazing. And yes, as a sibling notes, Reese's peanut butter cups are actually alarmingly tasty, but.... as with any $1 chocolate bar, that's shitty HFCS-saturated chocolate and shitty palm-oil-laced peanut butter, with way too much sugar in it, so if you're too good for that, well, that's a credit to your tastebuds, good on ya. So eat real chocolate with real peanut butter. Real peanut butter is nothing but peanuts and salt (it keeps well, but fresh-ground is better). Real chocolate, I trust you can figure out. Milk and dark are both good in this application. Although, of course, peanuts are not true nuts (no more than macadamia or almond or walnut), they're nonetheless very nutty, and the effect is pretty similar to "almond bark", or hazelnuts with chocolate, or pecans and chocolate. And of course you can just eat peanuts with chocolate, an okay combination. But there's something weirdly perfect about peanut butter with chocolate, better than peanuts with chocolate. But hey, although I'm not American, I am from America's hat, and I do like peanut butter in a few other formats too.
  - bluedino 6y ago
    You should try a buckeye! It's basically peanut butter wrapped in chocolate, giving an appearance similar to a buckeye nut.

Wait, is chocolate and peanut butter really a thing?! That sounds quite horrible to my non-US ears. Edit: yep, an online search seems to say that's an actual thing. I guess I'm part of the ten thousand today https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/. I will never understand the US fascination for peanut butter.

kd5bjo 6y ago
> I will never understand the US fascination for peanut butter. At one point in history, US farmers were encouraged to grow peanuts as a rotation crop to improve soil quality. That led to a glut of peanuts in the market, so people tried to find uses for them. Peanut butter was invented+ as one of these uses, and has been a staple of American diets ever since. +Or promoted, I can’t remember
- addHocker 6y ago
  They promoted soy family members for there self-fertilization attribute. https://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_a/A129/ https://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_a/A129/
Gaelan 6y ago
Reese's peanut butter cups [0] are a fairly popular "candy" item here. Try one if you get a chance, they're pretty tasty. [0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reeses-PB-Cups.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reeses-PB-Cups.jpg
bonzini 6y ago
As a European, sandwich with Nutella on one bread side and peanut butter on the other is awesome (except for your cholesterol).
- pier25 6y ago
  and sugar...
jholman 6y ago
Chocolate and peanut butter is amazing. And yes, as a sibling notes, Reese's peanut butter cups are actually alarmingly tasty, but.... as with any $1 chocolate bar, that's shitty HFCS-saturated chocolate and shitty palm-oil-laced peanut butter, with way too much sugar in it, so if you're too good for that, well, that's a credit to your tastebuds, good on ya. So eat real chocolate with real peanut butter. Real peanut butter is nothing but peanuts and salt (it keeps well, but fresh-ground is better). Real chocolate, I trust you can figure out. Milk and dark are both good in this application. Although, of course, peanuts are not true nuts (no more than macadamia or almond or walnut), they're nonetheless very nutty, and the effect is pretty similar to "almond bark", or hazelnuts with chocolate, or pecans and chocolate. And of course you can just eat peanuts with chocolate, an okay combination. But there's something weirdly perfect about peanut butter with chocolate, better than peanuts with chocolate. But hey, although I'm not American, I am from America's hat, and I do like peanut butter in a few other formats too.
- bluedino 6y ago
  You should try a buckeye! It's basically peanut butter wrapped in chocolate, giving an appearance similar to a buckeye nut.