OT: Peanut Butter

[bitrex]

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It's also probably a solid choice of nutritious calorie-dense survival
foodstock for emergency situations when stored in a factory-sealed
container, here a test subject tries some from a can which was packed
for US military ration use in 1957:

<https://youtu.be/vkWM6mz_JVo>

 

[bitrex]

On 3/21/2020 3:25 AM, bitrex wrote:

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It's also probably a solid choice of nutritious calorie-dense survival
foodstock for emergency situations when stored in a factory-sealed
container, here a test subject tries some from a can which was packed
for US military ration use in 1957:

https://youtu.be/vkWM6mz_JVo

With time index: <https://youtu.be/vkWM6mz_JVo?t=975>

 

[Jeff Layman]

On 21/03/20 07:25, bitrex wrote:

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It's also probably a solid choice of nutritious calorie-dense survival
foodstock for emergency situations when stored in a factory-sealed
container, here a test subject tries some from a can which was packed
for US military ration use in 1957:

https://youtu.be/vkWM6mz_JVo

Fascinating. With the "blown" state of several of those cans, if he
tried them he would need the toilet paper (at least...).

Which is a shame, he could make quite a bit of money selling it in now
the UK, as there's none on the supermarket shelves! Mind you, there are
quite a few people here stockpiling cans of food. I wonder what they
will find in decades when somebody comes across them at the back of a
garage?!

--

Jeff

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 21/03/20 08:53, Jeff Layman wrote:

On 21/03/20 07:25, bitrex wrote:
Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It's also probably a solid choice of nutritious calorie-dense survival
foodstock for emergency situations when stored in a factory-sealed
container, here a test subject tries some from a can which was packed
for US military ration use in 1957:

https://youtu.be/vkWM6mz_JVo

Fascinating. With the "blown" state of several of those cans, if he tried them
he would need the toilet paper (at least...).

Which is a shame, he could make quite a bit of money selling it in now the UK,
as there's none on the supermarket shelves! Mind you, there are quite a few
people here stockpiling cans of food. I wonder what they will find in decades
when somebody comes across them at the back of a garage?!

I have strawberry jam I made in 1987; I'm looking for a
special occasion to eat it.

I have dried mushrooms in my cupboard marked best before
Dec 1992. I still eat some of them.

A local Polish deli/mini supermarket had shelves full
to overflowing yesterday. I chose jars of sauerkraut
and meat stew (better corned beef!) and celeriac, as
well as some addictive pickled herring with onions
and mushrooms (for freezing).

Unfortunately I don;t want to eat that lot yet, since
I'd like to reduce my weight to reduce my blood pressure.

The local Aldi also had 24 roll packs of toilet paper,
which should mollify my mother (until she forgets
they are there).

 

[Clive Arthur]

On 21/03/2020 07:25, bitrex wrote:

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

<snip>

I use it for baiting rat traps - it lasts well and the rats seem to like
it, albeit briefly.

--
Cheers
Clive

 

[Michael Terrell]

On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 3:26:03 AM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It's also probably a solid choice of nutritious calorie-dense survival
foodstock for emergency situations when stored in a factory-sealed
container, here a test subject tries some from a can which was packed
for US military ration use in 1957:

https://youtu.be/vkWM6mz_JVo

I would hope that it was better than that made at the end of WW II. It was quite thick, and what little peanut oil it had, had separated. The toilet paper was two sheets, with splinters.


The crackers turned to dust when you tried to pick them up, and the tiny cans of sliced ham was slimy.

The package also had two cigarettes that were so dried out that they burnt the smoker's fingers with one puff.

Those meals kept you alive, if you could keep them down. You took your chances, when it was -40.

 

On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 03:25:58 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

PB is a basic food group, but only super-crunch. The creamy stuff is
boring.

We always carry a bag of beer nuts with us. It makes us new friends at
bars. We love Glen Park Station and Mission Saloon, proper dive bars
(currently closed!) but they both have a pitiful selection of bar
snacks.

I wonder what they did with those barrels of wonderful draft beer when
our idiot politicians shut them down with hours of notice.

Has everyone tried Justin's dark chocolate peanut butter cups? They
are fabulous. I buy them in bulk from Amazon and seed them around the
company.


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet.
"Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"

 

On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 08:53:00 +0000, Jeff Layman
<jmlayman@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 21/03/20 07:25, bitrex wrote:
Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It's also probably a solid choice of nutritious calorie-dense survival
foodstock for emergency situations when stored in a factory-sealed
container, here a test subject tries some from a can which was packed
for US military ration use in 1957:

https://youtu.be/vkWM6mz_JVo

Fascinating. With the "blown" state of several of those cans, if he
tried them he would need the toilet paper (at least...).

Which is a shame, he could make quite a bit of money selling it in now
the UK, as there's none on the supermarket shelves! Mind you, there are
quite a few people here stockpiling cans of food. I wonder what they
will find in decades when somebody comes across them at the back of a
garage?!

The parking situation must be getting steadily worse, with garages
filling with toilet paper.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet.
"Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"

 

[bitrex]

On 3/21/2020 10:35 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 08:53:00 +0000, Jeff Layman
jmlayman@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 21/03/20 07:25, bitrex wrote:
Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It's also probably a solid choice of nutritious calorie-dense survival
foodstock for emergency situations when stored in a factory-sealed
container, here a test subject tries some from a can which was packed
for US military ration use in 1957:

https://youtu.be/vkWM6mz_JVo

Fascinating. With the "blown" state of several of those cans, if he
tried them he would need the toilet paper (at least...).

Which is a shame, he could make quite a bit of money selling it in now
the UK, as there's none on the supermarket shelves! Mind you, there are
quite a few people here stockpiling cans of food. I wonder what they
will find in decades when somebody comes across them at the back of a
garage?!

The parking situation must be getting steadily worse, with garages
filling with toilet paper.

toilet paper is like duct tape or WD-40, it's good for a number of tasks
but not that good at doing the thing it says it's for on the label.

To be crass about it I figure other Americans must have noticed at some
point also that dry paper doesn't really get your butt clean too good.
Have to wash yourself to be clean. But the bidet never really caught on
here...

 

[Rick C]

On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 10:35:09 AM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 08:53:00 +0000, Jeff Layman
jmlayman@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 21/03/20 07:25, bitrex wrote:
Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It's also probably a solid choice of nutritious calorie-dense survival
foodstock for emergency situations when stored in a factory-sealed
container, here a test subject tries some from a can which was packed
for US military ration use in 1957:

https://youtu.be/vkWM6mz_JVo

Fascinating. With the "blown" state of several of those cans, if he
tried them he would need the toilet paper (at least...).

Which is a shame, he could make quite a bit of money selling it in now
the UK, as there's none on the supermarket shelves! Mind you, there are
quite a few people here stockpiling cans of food. I wonder what they
will find in decades when somebody comes across them at the back of a
garage?!

The parking situation must be getting steadily worse, with garages
filling with toilet paper.

I went into the basement to check the TP situation as the rolls I have in the bathroom are running low. I found the open Kirkland bag with two 4 roll packs still in it and then realized I had a unopened bag still on the top shelf! So I'm the TP king of my area without even knowing it!!! Maybe I should sell rolls on Amazon.

--

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[Rick C]

On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 10:33:41 AM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 03:25:58 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

PB is a basic food group, but only super-crunch. The creamy stuff is
boring.

Finally something we agree on. I also don't eat the stuff full of sugar which limits me to the "natural" lines which separate. I have no problem with them adding palm kernel oil to prevent the separation but don't find any commonly sold brands that add the oil, but not the sugar. I even found one of the name brands with a "natural" produce that added the sugar but not the palm kernel oil!!! What swill!

I wonder what they did with those barrels of wonderful draft beer when
our idiot politicians shut them down with hours of notice.

You are eventually going to be so thankful that he shut down things rather than leaving them open like in NY. Well, maybe not YOU.

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Rick C.

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[bitrex]

On 3/21/2020 5:57 AM, Michael Terrell wrote:

On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 3:26:03 AM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:
Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It's also probably a solid choice of nutritious calorie-dense survival
foodstock for emergency situations when stored in a factory-sealed
container, here a test subject tries some from a can which was packed
for US military ration use in 1957:

https://youtu.be/vkWM6mz_JVo


I would hope that it was better than that made at the end of WW II. It was quite thick, and what little peanut oil it had, had separated. The toilet paper was two sheets, with splinters.


The crackers turned to dust when you tried to pick them up, and the tiny cans of sliced ham was slimy.

The package also had two cigarettes that were so dried out that they burnt the smoker's fingers with one puff.

Those meals kept you alive, if you could keep them down. You took your chances, when it was -40.

"Shit on a shingle" is what my father called it IIRC.

Quality probably depended on where one was, I suppose? Dad was with the
10th Mountain in Italy he said the rations in 44 and 45 (aside from the
above) weren't too bad. He didn't smoke so he traded the accessory-pack
cigarettes for chocolate, gum, and Coke in small bottles, when it was
available.

He said stuff like particularly writing paper and yeah toilet paper was
always in short supply

 

[Rick C]

On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 4:50:18 PM UTC-4, Clifford Heath wrote:

On 22/3/20 2:50 am, Rick C wrote:
On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 10:33:41 AM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 03:25:58 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

PB is a basic food group, but only super-crunch. The creamy stuff is
boring.

Finally something we agree on. I also don't eat the stuff full of sugar which limits me to the "natural" lines which separate. I have no problem with them adding palm kernel oil to prevent the separation but don't find any commonly sold brands that add the oil, but not the sugar.

We have several brands that add hydrogenated peanut oil, but no salt or
sugar. That's the good stuff!

Who is "we"? Are you running a peanut company? BTW, peanut butter without salt is a crime against man and nature!

--

Rick C.

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[Clifford Heath]

On 22/3/20 2:50 am, Rick C wrote:

On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 10:33:41 AM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 03:25:58 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

PB is a basic food group, but only super-crunch. The creamy stuff is
boring.

Finally something we agree on. I also don't eat the stuff full of sugar which limits me to the "natural" lines which separate. I have no problem with them adding palm kernel oil to prevent the separation but don't find any commonly sold brands that add the oil, but not the sugar.

We have several brands that add hydrogenated peanut oil, but no salt or
sugar. That's the good stuff!

 

[mpm]

On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 10:33:41 AM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

I wonder what they did with those barrels of wonderful draft beer when
our idiot politicians shut them down with hours of notice.

At least in Florida, Gov. DeSantis is allowing alcohol (with meal) for restaurant take-out. So there's that.

 

[mpm]

What about the powdered stuff?
I know it's low-carb, so I'm assuming it's low on sugar too.

Probably keeps forever too. ?

 

[Dave Platt]

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It was necessary, and thus inevitable. When our ancestors got here,
and needed something to make sandwiches with, marmite hadn't been
invented yet.

 

[Michael Terrell]

On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 1:01:47 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:

On 3/21/2020 5:57 AM, Michael Terrell wrote:
On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 3:26:03 AM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:
Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It's also probably a solid choice of nutritious calorie-dense survival
foodstock for emergency situations when stored in a factory-sealed
container, here a test subject tries some from a can which was packed
for US military ration use in 1957:

https://youtu.be/vkWM6mz_JVo


I would hope that it was better than that made at the end of WW II. It was quite thick, and what little peanut oil it had, had separated. The toilet paper was two sheets, with splinters.


The crackers turned to dust when you tried to pick them up, and the tiny cans of sliced ham was slimy.

The package also had two cigarettes that were so dried out that they burnt the smoker's fingers with one puff.

Those meals kept you alive, if you could keep them down. You took your chances, when it was -40.


"Shit on a shingle" is what my father called it IIRC.

Quality probably depended on where one was, I suppose? Dad was with the
10th Mountain in Italy he said the rations in 44 and 45 (aside from the
above) weren't too bad. He didn't smoke so he traded the accessory-pack
cigarettes for chocolate, gum, and Coke in small bottles, when it was
available.

He said stuff like particularly writing paper and yeah toilet paper was
always in short supply

Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast is AKA: Shit on a Shingle. I've never sen it n prepackaged rations.

 

[TTman]

On 22/03/2020 05:47, Dave Platt wrote:

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It was necessary, and thus inevitable. When our ancestors got here,
and needed something to make sandwiches with, marmite hadn't been
invented yet.

Foxes and badgers love peanut butter sandwiches!

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On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:47:33 -0700, dplatt@coop.radagast.org (Dave
Platt) wrote:

Americans have a particular fondness for peanuts and peanut butter which
has been remarked on by residents of the elsewheres of life where the
legume is not as popular.

It was necessary, and thus inevitable. When our ancestors got here,
and needed something to make sandwiches with, marmite hadn't been
invented yet.

But the sandwich hadn't been invented either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich

But beer had. When were beer nuts invented?




--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet.
"Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"