BS: Smooth or Crunchy?

Subject: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Wesley S
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 04:12 PM

I prefer crunchy.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 04:23 PM

Is this a peanut butter question? If so, crunchy for me. But my husband cooks with the stuff (yuk!) and likes it smooth, so we have both in the house. It's very nice on crumpets...

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 04:47 PM

As Eliza implies, it depends upon the use to which it is put.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 05:32 PM

If peanut butter, definitely crunchy; also no salt, no sugar, and not hydrogenated. There are only two ways to use PB: in a PBJ sandwich or straight from the jar on a spoon. Well, maybe a third use--getting chewing gum out your kid's hair. Nothing else. Not Reeses PB cups or pieces, not cooking, and definitely not with bananas.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 05:33 PM

peanut facts 

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 07:08 PM

John, John, John. Peanut butter, jam, lettuce and NO BANANA? Until now, no post of yours has ever disappointed me :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 07:59 PM

peanut butter, chocolate and pork rinds? 

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Janie
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 08:02 PM

Smooth. I can't stand stuff that gets caught between or in my teeth.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 08:30 PM

I am 57. My intestines are the same age. Smooth fer me. Now, if you are of any age and you prefer crunchy, yer wrong. Yer guts will eventually agree with me.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 09:12 PM

I am 75,and it's always been crunchy! I even buy crunchy almond butter and mix it with PB.... then it's jam, jelly or honey on good multi-grain bread. That is my breakfast about 5 out of 7 days. I often have one just before bed. Teeth? When I had tooth problems, I was just more careful.

I remember asking my mother for a FULL PB & J sandwich when I was 5...had been eating one slice of bread folded over... but I saw the man next door with 2 slices of bread! Wow!...

lessee... 70+ years... thats gotta be-- hmmm...several tons? I think the PB industry owes me a free jar.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Wesley S
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 09:16 PM

Peanut butter and honey. Or PB and mayo......on toasted bread.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 27 Jun 14 - 09:33 PM

gnu--
In a few months (Nov. 11 to be exact-keep them cards and money comin' in,)if you haven't beat me to a birthday, my age will reverse the digits in your age. I'll catch up with Bill D.; I didn't know anyone could be that old, me most of all. Anyhow, nothin' wrong with my stomach, but the rest of me not so much.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: LadyJean
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 12:25 AM

Crunchy is best and there is nothing like peanut butter and bacon, especially if the bacon is fresh and very greasy.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 12:56 AM

Jam or marmalade on peanut butter, esp on crumpets -- not every time but now & again. And a layer of ordinary butter under the peanut butter, always. This, of course, only a statement of my own taste, not asseverated as any sort of law, either moral or gastronomic.

As to smooth or crunchy: again, sometimes one, sometimes the other.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 02:06 AM

Smooth and reduced fat. Tesco own brand is good.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 02:09 AM

Ooooops, hit 'go' too soon! PB and banana on fresh white farmhouse bread - manna from heaven! Not good fodder for a diabetic, but WTF. Even in my dotage, gotta live dangerously occasionally! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 02:55 AM

crunchy & I make my own - I put peanuts in my blender & use the coffee bean setting so the bits are BIG, then I mix in some oil.

yum - beautiful with butter or ricotta cheese underneath also yummy with sliced banana on top. Sometimes it's my lunch sandwich with ricotta underneath & salad on top.

sometimes I have a thin scrape of Vegemite underneath the PB -

PB & tomato &/or bread & butter cucumber (cucumber in a sweetish vinegar) with cheese melted on top is also very yummy

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 08:09 AM

I get an organic make. It's a bit more expensive, but it doesn't have that ghastly sweet taste that the cheaper ones seem to have. To me, savoury MEANS savoury. And of course, Michael, on crumpets, one puts butter underneath the stuff. Butter's essential at every opportunity!
I'm not sure how my husband cooks his fiery dishes, but they seem to require pots of smooth peanut butter. I find that ghastly, but I never taste his food, so I live and let live!

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 09:34 AM

I am 63 years old and have never eaten peanut butter - has my life been one without meaning or have I been fortunate to avoid the devil's own spread?

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 10:32 AM

Oh it's definitely heavenly stuff, Rumncoke. Do you not fancy a little taste, just to see what it's like? Go on... be tempted!

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 01:04 PM

Perhaps Rumcake has a religious avoidance of PB...or perhaps a medical one. ore for the rest of us.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 01:49 PM

Crunchy PB for me on a crispbread thin layer of butter first, topped with some cream cheese and cucumber. I am fond of PB with banana too but it all depends on my mood sometimes one of each if I cannot make up my mind. It would be interesting to use it in a recipe though, Eliza could you let me know of any to try? I have always fancied that it would go well with chicken and rice. As peanut butter is quite a distinctive taste already is it necessary to add any extra herbs / seasoning to it?

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 02:11 PM

Hello there Patsy! Have just asked my husband, and here's one of his horrific efforts!
He roasts some chicken quarters first in the oven, to make sure they're thoroughly cooked. Then in a deep frying pan he heats Flora oil and slowly fries chopped onions, garlic and tomatoes. (Quantities are arbitrary) When they're soft, he adds about a pint of cold water. a crumbled Maggi chicken stock cube (yuk!) 2 heaped tablespoons of smooth peanut butter, 4 'Scotch bonnets' (those horribly hot chilli things) coarsely-ground pepper, three teaspoons of salt (far too much for his health, but Africans eat far too much salt anyway) 3 teaspoons of Sharwoods Madras curry powder, a teaspoonful of dried herbes Provencales (he found those in my cupboard and likes them!) and simmers it all slowly, stirring a bit. Then he adds the chicken and puts the lid on, for about 45 mins. He mashes up the Scotch bonnets to make it hotter still. I must say, it smells delicious, but don't whatever you do put any in your mouth, or you'll go through the roof.
He eats this with couc-cous, rice or noodles. While he's farting about with this muck, I'm cooking mince, mashed potatoes and spring greens.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 03:01 PM

John otSC - one additional use is to get beach tar off your feet, and smooth works better for that.

This was one of a set of questions we used to ask in the early 80's, I think - the memory has a flavor of late college. They were:
Smooth or crunchy? (for PB)
Folded or crumpled? (for TP) - and, if folded, on the lines or not?
Sean Connery or Roger Moore? (for James Bond)
Anybody remember the others? There were about 7, and the pattern of responses, not responses to any individual question, meant something I don't remember either.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 03:04 PM

I dont eat chrunchy, as I fear it may be "re-experienced" the next day in the same form?

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 03:39 PM

After reading that Eliza, I find myself wondering how your obviously blissfully happy marriage survives at all. But then, I remember that Emma is Chelsea and I am Arsenal, so I stop worrying!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 04:11 PM

LOL Michael. It must be that opposites attract!

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST,Bobby Bigboy
Date: 28 Jun 14 - 05:06 PM

"Smooth or Crunchy?"   vaseline ????

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 29 Jun 14 - 12:48 AM

"Sean Connery or Roger Moore? (for James Bond)"
.,,.

Aha, now there's a vital one. My late wife Valerie, who was on the whole quite an intelligent person [1st class Cambridge degree as mature student after missing out on univ first time around] maintained until her dying day that nobody but Connery could play Bond, in tones as if it were some sort of god-given unshakeable Law of the Universe established since the Creation or the Big Bang, whichever preceded.

To my questions as to whether the same applied to Garrick, or even Burbage, regarding the playing of Hamlet, she would simply stick metaphorical fingers in her ear and say it again.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 29 Jun 14 - 03:48 AM

Eliza thank you for the recipe and will give it a go although I would probably not use salt (on your advice!) and leave out the chillies, reading this has brightened up my morning! I can imagine it must be fun in your kitchen and wish I could be a fly on the wall observing this.

Who is cooking lunch today?

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 29 Jun 14 - 04:38 AM

LOL Patsy! Well, I'm making a steak and kidney pie for us both, but he sprinkles it with tons of curry powder (can you imagine?) once the plate arrives at the table. Most maddening, but over the years I've learned to let live. It's his choice after all. It's actually Ramadan now, and he should be fasting and not drinking until sunset. But he doesn't do it any more. I never have said anything, but he feels it's very bad for the kidneys (his own, not those in the pie) and he simply prays but doesn't do the rest. We always let the other do whatever he/she thinks fit, and that way we've been v happy over the years. The world could perhaps learn from this!
Best wishes Patsy, nice to hear from you.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 29 Jun 14 - 07:35 AM

I believe that the fasting rules are not so strict for anyone for whom they might be damaging, particularly when the month falls in the hottest part of the Summer. The young, the elderly, the infirm or ill, pregnant or nursing mothers should not fast.

I avoid peanut butter because the smell is most unpleasant, to my senses.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Jun 14 - 07:39 AM

odd peanut butter recipes 

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 14 - 09:47 AM

By law, wa certain percentage of insect parts are allowed in peanu5 butter. that alone should make it crunchy,

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Jun 14 - 11:24 AM

I prefer smooth. If I squeeze and they feel crunchy, I find it to be a real turnoff.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jun 14 - 11:43 AM

Or, or, or.... aaaarghhh!!! Both/and thinking for me!

Smooth for cooking, usually. Smooth on hot dogs as a condiment. Smooth to pill dogs.

Crunchy for sandwiches.

~Susan

Subject: LA Times Xword Puzzle 29 June
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 29 Jun 14 - 12:02 PM

Clue Across 121, "Certain creamy alternative."
Art follows Mudcat posts.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Jun 14 - 02:26 PM

With me, it's crunchy 1 - 0. And check labels carefully, a lot of brands are impure, mixed with something other than peanut butter.

Try peanut butter and apple butter sandwiches.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: JHW
Date: 29 Jun 14 - 02:34 PM

peanut butter, definitely crunchy; also no salt, no sugar, and not hydrogenated

crocodile sandwich - snappy

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jun 14 - 11:46 AM

For a quick satay sauce mix smooth unsweetened peanut butter with curry paste.

Toss into stir fry chicken just before serving.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST,eldergirl
Date: 01 Jul 14 - 08:01 AM

Smooth or crunchy on toast with marmalade.
Have also experimented with PB/marmalade cookies, but they need a bit more work..

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Ed T
Date: 01 Jul 14 - 09:00 AM

Aflatoxins  

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Stu
Date: 01 Jul 14 - 09:52 AM

Crunchy.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jul 14 - 10:32 PM

Many years ago, at the FSGW Getaway, we were served Peanut-Butter/Broccoli soup at one meal..... it was 'ok'... but no one demanded it in later years.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: J-boy
Date: 02 Jul 14 - 12:21 AM

Scrunchy?

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 02 Jul 14 - 03:19 PM

Crunchy every time - and yes, the organic version is better (more earthy somehow).

It is also very good as a bait in mouse traps.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Jul 14 - 03:35 PM

and the public opinion researchers say.... 

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Jul 14 - 10:13 PM

impossible!

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Jul 14 - 10:15 PM

itchy trigger finger

impossible! they either reversed the answers, or respondents were fibbing!!

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 Jul 14 - 09:18 PM

Crunchy. Cream cheese below, lettuce above.
That's for peanut butter. As to human beings, I prefer hairy, but smooth in spots.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 04 Jul 14 - 06:32 AM

It's easier to spread the cream cheese on the peanut butter, rather than peanut butter on cream cheese (and I always use real butter first) - chopped celery adds an interesting texture and flavour as well, either with or instead of the lettuce.

And definitely NO BANANA.

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Jul 14 - 07:01 AM

For your burger?

Peanut butter and maple syrup, eh 

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jul 14 - 01:19 PM

Sandra... I would guess those statistics are pretty accurate. I can easily see why 'smooth' would be the default, as crunchy bits must be 'dealt with', and some for various reasons, can't do it.... and some just prefer smooth, just as some drink Bud Lite (bllaaahh) on purpose. Still, Bud Lite is the best selling 'beer' in the US.

PB & Maple syrup? Never tried it,..but sure! Sounds good!

Subject: RE: BS: Smooth or Crunchy?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jul 14 - 02:00 PM

Crunchy! On fat slices of toasted brown bread.

I also prefer the slightly healthier stuff made by Wholearth, but tend to buy the big pots of supermarket generic (so long as not loaded with additives and fillers) as Mr. goes through it at a frightening rate!

Eliza, does your hubs have any recommendations for vegetarian African dishes involving peanut butter? I've made an African style soup with it before and it was really good!