Once upon a time, I was a peanut butter snob.<\/p>\n
I’d grown up on Skippy peanut butter. A wild, exotic day was when my mom would inadvertently buy Skippy Crunchy rather than Smooth.<\/p>\n
Once I was out on my own, I decided I could do better than that. I wanted to taste real peanuts. None of that sugar, let alone all those emulsifiers. After all, everyone knows that real <\/i>peanut butter separates. That’s how you know it’s good.<\/i><\/p>\n
Well, somewhere along the line, we reached the conclusion that having to stir up your peanut butter every time you want to use it was actually kind of a stupid, annoying thing to have to do. And leaving your peanut butter jar upside down (making it a little easier to stir) is a great way to find a pantry shelf full of peanut oil.<\/p>\n
Plus, Kitten came along, and peanut butter became one of the four food groups.<\/p>\n
So now we use Jif (Margie’s childhood brand affiliation trumped mine, since she usually does the shopping).<\/p>\n
But …<\/p>\n
I still wouldn’t mind something that tasted like actual peanuts, not peanut-flavored goo. And I wouldn’t mind something chunky.<\/p>\n
But no stirring. That’s just stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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