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Sue - 2004-10-13 12:58:22
White chocolate isn't even real chocolate! It's got a weird, oily texture. Yuck.
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Paula - 2004-10-13 13:35:47
Oh, but have you had the Reese's? Also, white choc. gets points for lookin' so cool.
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Baby Party - 2004-10-13 13:47:19
It doesn't matter about the white chocolate because peanut butter is disgusting anyway. Sorry, but that's how I feel.
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Paula - 2004-10-13 13:54:39
Oh my god, I thought peanut butter was universally loved. I thought it was the glue that holds this nation together.
Well, I guess there won't be much celebratin' in these quarters re: the Reese's.
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Baby Party - 2004-10-13 14:20:52
Sorry to rain on the parade!
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Flasshe - 2004-10-13 14:22:33
Here's a weird one for you. Like Baby Party, I absolutely loathe peanut butter. And yet, my favorite candy is... (wait for it)...
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! How did that happen??
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Paula - 2004-10-13 14:25:44
I guess b/c the "peanut butter" in PB cups isn't much like real peanut butter.
I'm so intrigued by the pb-loathers...what is it--the taste? the texture? the infernal racket?
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amatt - 2004-10-13 15:27:03
I love Reese's pb cups. I love white chocolate. I love all candy. Everything. I also love everyone most of the time, but not all the time. If I could sleep with candy, I would. Way back when I asked a girl named Candy to go out with me. She said no. The usual response. Anyway, I still love candy.
What IS the only thing universally loved? Hmmm?
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I wombat - 2004-10-13 16:05:32
I used to like peanut butter, in fact just yesterday I was thinking about how, once upon a time, I would just as soon have a PB&J with milk as anything. Well I don't really drink milk anymore, and I don't really like peanut butter without it, too much work.
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Editrix - 2004-10-13 16:41:54
Ever have a grilled PB&J? Like a grilled cheese, but, you know, with PB&J? Heaven.
For the record, nay on waxy white faux chocolate.
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Joe - 2004-10-13 19:07:57
Ditto on the grilled PB&J. I used to think The Who were universally loved until my aunt told me she didn't like them. That was around '82 or '83. I haven't tried again since.
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Tom Ronca - 2004-10-13 23:18:04
I'm definitely ambivalent regards Peanut Butter, sometimes it seems really tasty, other times . . . about as appealling as melted rubber. As far as I'm concerned, all the other nut butters are a superior taste treat over PB -- cashew butter is well worth the trouble to search it out, and ALMOND BUTTER ! ! ! Second only to crack in its addictive properties! Try it and see.
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Baby Party - 2004-10-14 11:54:24
Maybe I should try Reese's, if they don't taste much like PB. I do sometimes long for a creamy chocolate treat. But Peanut butter is just way too...peanutty. I really can't explain it. The smell really puts me off. But I'm not a huge nut fan. I am trying to get myself to eat cashew butter, and other nut butters, for health reasons, but it's a struggle, and I draw the line at peanut butter. I hate kissing someone with peanut butter on their breath.
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Paula - 2004-10-14 13:28:01
Well, Baby Party, you won't be a-kissin' me much, cuz my breath is frequently redolent of the PB.
Nut butters are a good source of healthy fats and protein and they tend to be low-carb. And yet because they are dense, they make you feel full. So they are truly God's gift--if you like the taste.
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2fs - 2004-10-14 16:31:52
Peanut butter is good. On the subject of PB-based sandwiches, there's a restaurant near us (the Palomino) with something called "The Velvet Elvis." It is, of course, the renowned PB-and-sliced-bananas-on-white-bread thing, deep-fried...but with the addition of...bacon! It works better than, uh, one might have thought - although they slather on so much PB, it tends to glue your mouth shut. This, by the way, is the same place with the drink called "Motor Oil" - a Jack & Coke with the addition of Guinness. It, too, works better than expected...except, far from gluing your mouth closed, it tends to keep it yapping quite a bit if you have more than three or five of them. Just ask Janet.
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Bob - 2004-10-14 20:33:51
Peanuts are not real or even fake nuts, of course. And the correct term for white chocolate is "former chocolate". And adult PB eaters for some reason do seem to tend toward appalling perversions, such as a skate buddy who keeps trying to get me to try one of the peanut butter and longitudinal pickle-slices sammitches that he happily consumes. (I try to tell him that if you eat those things, the terrorists win.) And here's a write-in vote against invert-Reese's (which are PB covered quasi-chocolate).
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Flasshe - 2004-10-15 12:03:13
Mistress Pauls: I'm so intrigued by the pb-loathers...what is it--the taste? the texture? the infernal racket?
For me, it's definitely the taste I don't like. I've tried different textures (of which there is a huge variety, of course) but it doesn't seem to matter. The smell, as Baby Party mentions, may have something to do with it as well. I can eat regular old peanuts, though I don't go out of my way to do so.
I was teased in elementary school because my mother would always pack me jelly sandwiches sans PB for lunch, while everyone else had the omnipresent PB&Js. That's probably another thing that scarred me for life.
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