[Syd Smurf]

I love peanut butter.

You may be American then Dominique.....they don't just love peanut butter......they mix it with everything.....I MEAN EVERYTHING !!!

Maybe before I go I should visit a supermarket and write down every peanut buttered flavoured food item I can find there....I may need a week to do it but I just have to know.

I guess other Aussie food would include animals and insects like: Kangaroo, Emu, Crocodile and Witchery Grubs if you follow traditional Aboriginal meals.

Dyar

[Ritter_Schlumpfenherz]

Well, I don't mix peanut butter with anything and everything. I love it pure on a piece of bread.

[Smurfysmurf]

One of my co-workers tried to get me to eat a banana today, topped with peanut butter

[DrunkSmurf]

Maybe before I go I should visit a supermarket and write down every peanut buttered flavoured food item I can find there....I may need a week to do it but I just have to know.
Dyar

Is peanut butter not common in Australia? I disliked it as a kid, and used to hate chocolates (like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups) that I always got at school and were nothing but crumbly peanut butter with a layer of chocolate.

But, from having no choice but to eat Reeses I finally started liking it OK, until I worked in California for those three months and practically lived off it. I haven't had any in a few years, though. My wife is Chinese, and peanut butter is not known there.

But, don't worry, them Chinese got their own weird gunk to eat.... :eeyore: :eeyore: :eeyore: :eeyore: :eeyore: :eeyore:

[SA Smurfette]

Is peanut butter not common in Australia?

It is common Tim, just not as popular as vegemite
I know in some schools and Kindergartens peanut butter is banned as there seems to be a lot of kids these days with peanut allergies.

[Margaret]

What is vegemite it sounds like a type of bug

[Ritter_Schlumpfenherz]

Both "Marmite" and "vegemite" are spreads.
http://forum.bluecavern.com/viewtopic.p ... ht=marmite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite

[Tojo]

I love peanut butter too & other peanutty foods as well such as satay (yum yum). Just not with jam or anything else.

I had to laugh at the warning on my jar of peanut butter though: 'could contain traces of nuts'

I mean what else are peanuts? Fish? Flying winged creatures?

[Smurfysmurf]

I had to laugh at the warning on my jar of peanut butter though: 'could contain traces of nuts'

I mean what else are peanuts? Fish? Flying winged creatures?

Yeah, that makes my day also everytime I read it
But the real question is....could contain only "traces of nuts"?

Hopefully there are more than traces of nuts in the peanut butter

I think they tried to ban peanut butter in schools here, too....nearly caused another American Revolution

[Tojo]

This 'banning everything which might cause choking' phobia in the US is one of the things that makes us Europeans laugh I think. It would make more sense to ban hamburgers & fries as they make you fat, & cause heart disease if eaten in large quantities. I think the whole deal is laughable.

Things are changing in Europe as well now though & more & more products are having warnings on them. Thankfully surprise eggs haven't been banned here as a part of our culture would disappear then (& I like some of the figures in them too )

[FlamingO]

What is vegemite it sounds like a type of bug

Hmmm, think I'd steer clear too

more & more products are having warnings on them.

Hmmm. Wished they'd make the ones on cigarette packets a bit longer so I have more to read when enjoying a smoke

[eggie smurf]

One of my co-workers tried to get me to eat a banana today, topped with peanut butter

YUM!!!!

[Gerda]

Japan: Natto (fermented soy beans that taste and smell like unsalty piss )

am I the only one thinking how you know what piss smells and tast like

Nope I thought that too when I read it

Just for the record you can now buy peanut butter and jelly already together in a jar, it looks like a pinwheel when you open it up. And yes it does keep the brats fed.. you do what you can to shut the holes in there face


gerda

[Smurfysmurf]

My coworker had a new variation the other day......

banana topped with peanut butter and Boston Creme fat free yoghurt and nuts....

and I admit I nearly lost my breakfast the first time I saw a cousin mix peanut butter and jelly....it just didn't look yummy.....

but then I used to eat Quark mixed with jelly on a bun...now that was yummy sorry, still haven't found Quark in America and still don't know what it is called in America...do you know, Gerda?

[Gerda]

but then I used to eat Quark mixed with jelly on a bun...now that was yummy sorry, still haven't found Quark in America and still don't know what it is called in America...do you know, Gerda?

I always thought it was cottage cheese, but I just asked my mom and she said it's more like a sourcream, but the american's don't have nothing like it!

Gerda

[Ritter_Schlumpfenherz]

Well Gerda,cottage cheese is not as creamy and soft as Quark.

But hang on, I just found the English term: It's called "curd" or "curd cream"

[Gerda]

Well Gerda,cottage cheese is not as creamy and soft as Quark.

But hang on, I just found the English term: It's called "curd" or "curd cream"

Thanks!! I don't think we have any curd cream in the stores, at least I never seen any around here


gerda

[Ritter_Schlumpfenherz]

Hi Gerda,

I have just read a topic on curd on German wikipedia and thought this should be interesting for Maureen and you to read:

Ebenso viele andere in Deutschland beliebte Milchprodukte [...] [sind]ein Problemartikel. Curd ist nur in sehr guten Supermärkten zu finden, teuer, und weniger fest als in Deutschland.[...] .

translation of the passage given

[...]additionally getting hold of German milkproducts [...] can be difficult in the US. Curd is only to be found in rarely (decent) supermarkets. It is expensive and not as stiff as in Germany[...].

[Gerda]

Thanks alot.. I know my grandma ate it alot and when she came to live with us she would eat cottage cheese, I guess that is why I got confused, wonder if the taste is close enough to cottage cheese??


gerda

[Ritter_Schlumpfenherz]

Cottage cheese and curd cream distinguish a lot when it comes to taste them.