Peanut Butter: Crunchy or Smooth?

Crunchy or Smooth?


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luka

Well-known member
It's popular here but we are very americanised. We love America. It's not central to our identity though. It's just peanut butter.
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
That bit is true at least? As the moistening agent
for sandwiches, definitely yes, people use mayonnaise or a similar emulsion like aioli or whatever

on toast no, not in a million years

for myself, I don't really eat a lot of bread and If I do I don't use a "moistening agent"

or, my moistening agent is drinking water
 

luka

Well-known member
that's a shame. I liked the grotesque image of Americans slathering industrial mayonnaise all over there hot toast.
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
I don't think peanut butter is really central to the American identity in the way hamburgers or something are

the peanut has an undeniable place in the American psyche - George Washington Carver, Jimmy Carter, etc
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
mayonnaise can also be synonymous with extreme Whiteness

not that POC don't eat it - they do - but it's v WASP cuisine
 

luka

Well-known member
Message from my American uncle Burt


We're getting to vote on dope, will it be legal to buy the stuff, following an American model. It was put forward by the Greens. 4 weeks to go before election day Covis dominating everything, people would just like to vote tomorrow but all the parties want to be able to present their policies. Walked into town the other day and got some records with the lovely vouchers I got for fathers day, I've started looking for some West Coast jazz from the early 60's pre Beatles era, Shorty Rogers people like that, pre A Love Supreme Coltrane too, too deep and meaningful for me, Real Groovy seems to be importing stuff from the States and some of them you can get 70% back if it doesn't click within 2 weeks of purchase. It provides some solace in these times. Found an old Rolling Stones record I had years ago, a German release with the dance you were supposed to do beside each track, shimmy shake etc. $70 they wanted not even a gullible old boomer like myself with more money than brains could fall for it. Well hope the summer weather lingers on.
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
Plays into this notion of the whites not 'seasoning' their food etc. The opposite of spicy is mayonaisse.
well again I think it's more of a 50s, or not a recent thing anyway

this kind of default post-WWII cuisine and the cultural default was white middle-class nuclear family in Levittown USA

i.e. Wonderbread as bland, "soulless", etc
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
but it's a very brief moment

that post-WWII window, the 50s and first half of the 60s maybe

that Space Age fantasy of technology, processed food etc

which hippiedom rejects pretty thoroughly and by the 70s you have that rejection filtering into mass culture
 
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