More fun than Mayonnaise... or at least equally fun... OK, it's less fun, but you're still reading...
since the guessed vanished, i obviously can't ask them how vigorously they stirred... and we'll never know whether the knife (a giveaway of how deep they mixed) was hand-washed in a selfless act of giving back to the hosts or a hostile pb-cover-up.
in summary: does anyone want a free jar of natural smucker's chunky peanut butter. buying a new jar is the only way to free my mind from this investigation.
Posted by steveh at November 14, 2006 12:52 AM | TrackBackapparently your stock photo site doesn't include the sub-section "natural variety" under photos of peanut butter...or else they hired some super, duper compulsive stirrer to get that level of homogenization.
Posted by: dsplit at November 14, 2006 10:07 AMWarning: Arachibutyrophobic Content
Odd things set our hearts a-flutter
Among them: natural chunky peanut butter.
That its oleaginous tastes to waken
Must be briskly stirred, not shaken.
(Even though mixed quite properly,
It still spreads rather sloppily.)
Planters, Skippy, Jiff, and Smuckers
Add unnatural "stabilizers" that foil
The ordained state of separated oil.
So that which man hath joined together
Tastes less like butter, more like leather.
Peanut butter and margarine are properly described in the poem, I certainly agree. V-8 juice is tasty, but compared to your sister's homemade tomato juice it is lacking in texture and the artificial thickening detracts from the enjoyment of the real thing.
Posted by: The Poet's Brother-in-law at November 15, 2006 02:13 PMwhen you want chocolate, you don't eat sixlets because they are actually brown wax coated in lead-based paint. the same holds true for butter and margarine.
Posted by: gb at November 15, 2006 02:36 PMThis is a hilarious post. i love natural peanut butter and am intimately familiar with the problem of which you speak.
Posted by: Monday at November 21, 2006 01:31 PM