PB&J and the Momentous Peanut Butter Hearings

[@TodayIFoundOut]

Now that you know all about the Peanut Butter Hearings check out this video and find out about The Coming Banana Apocalypse: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnTTnqd_a9R3gq8

[@amandashaul2059]

Idk how that stat can about. I ate a PB&j sandwich like 3 times a year. Ofc I'm not fat either.

[@dernvader6876]

Rapeseed Oil is Canola Oil... :::)

[@alexekelmans1945]

Funny bonusfact. In the Netherlands peanut butter is called peanut cheese, because to call something butter it have to contain milk.

[@PiOfficial]

Alex Ekelmans but cheese is made of milk? I like their logic.

[@alexekelmans1945]

That is right, but it is by law dat only butter can be called butter and must be made of milk. Therefor peanut butter is called pindakaas aka peanut cheese.

[@andrewsuryali8540]

There's history behind that. In the 17th-18th centuries, pastry shops became an actual business in most of Europe similar to bakeries. That prompted the establishment of guild laws similar to that which governed bakers. Enter the cheesecake, one of the cheapest and most easily made pastries around at the time. Well, actual cheese was actually too expensive to use for making cheesecake for general consumption, so most shops made theirs without cheese. Because everyone was doing it, the guild laws that emerged allowed for a definition of "cheesecake" that doesn't contain cheese. Here's a nice reproduction of one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmXPqY2Va6x_ntk This then got a bit convoluted when a definition of "cheese" for use in cooking had to be made, because people were using stuff like potatoes to imitate the texture of cheese and claiming them to be a form of "cheese". Well, getting into a fight with the patissier's guild was not what the government had in mind, so they kinda gave up and just didn't try to regulate the definition for cheese. Think of it as the 18th century version of the PB&J hearings where the gov't lost. As an aside, late grandma was always adamant that ONLY gouda and edam should go into her kaasstengels, so when neither was available (cheddar is ALWAYS available, of course), we ended up with cheeseless kaasstengels. Somehow they still tasted right, so grandma must have found her own way around the cheese issue like the patissiers of old....

[@W1ldSm1le]

Andrew Suryali holy shit mate I didn't expect something so interesting to be in these comments.

[@PollyBonanzas]

@Andrew Suryali - And now for another bonus fact!

[@HowieIsaacks]

I'm in my 40s and I still eat PB&J sandwiches. It's my all-time favorite food.

[@zebooker]

Today I Found Out: I was pleasantly surprised to learn Skippy and Jif must be at least 90% peanuts, thank you. I insist on "Peanuts, salt" as the ingredient list on my PB. Time for a PBJ!

[@josaking717]

Constantly astounded by the stuff you find to make videos out of and remind everyone that history is amazingly strange quirky and fun

[@TaviaJojo]

Anybody else craving?

[@Erik-wm6ee]

i legit got a fuqin blockbuster ad on this vid.

[@elizabethmcwhorter3445]

I thought they went bankrupt ten years ago

[@Gencoil]

Let them eat Pringles.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

"Ala-peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!!!" Reminds me of that Muppet magician,Mumford.

[@Hirudin]

This episode brought to you by the Illuminutty.

[@ohari1]

Out.

[@jessn.2665]

I’d argue my pb&j consumption skyrocketed in college. I would make pb&j sandwiches in bulk, freeze them, and throw them in my backpack where they thawed until lunch. (like an uncrustable)

[@lucky43113]

Jessica N good idea much smarter than ppl who actually buy them in the store way over priced

[@aniluluful]

This is so smart

[@aaronsirkman8375]

Mmm...I feel like the consistency might suffer from freezing and thawing, but it's definitely not a bad idea. And I'm happy to see you include peanut butter and honey there; that was one of my favorite sandwiches growing up, and not enough people seem to be familiar with it. Sometimes people were shocked to find out what I was eating! Of course, add some bananas, and now we're really talking...

[@hamsterama]

+ Jessica N I'm in my early 30's, and I'm probably eating more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches now than I ever did when I was a kid. I can easily throw together a fresh peanut butter and jelly sandwich at my desk at work.

[@jessn.2665]

Aaron Sirkman the outside does become a bit dry, just the very top and bottom if you take it out of the bag early. Nothing awful though. I thought it was definitely worth it for when I had bread that was about to go bad, for those times where I would rather eat anything already prepared or not eat at all.

[@katherinewolfe9976]

I love, love, love this channel! Thanks!

[@willswenson3169]

I actually got into a small argument with someone today about who invented peanut butter. They were going with Carver creating it, even though that has been long debunked. They also said that rocket ships and antibiotics were created by black people. At that point, I gave up on them

[@CaptainXJ]

Nope. Nazi's and a Scott respectively.

[@dynamicworlds1]

CaptainXJ well, Nazis were involved in orbital rockets to be sure, but Goddard was an American (allong with many of the scientists that took us from the V2 to space) and the 1st people were Chinese. There are plenty of people of every color that have made significant advances, so there's no need to go making shit up for anyone that isn't a racist trying to pretend that their kind did everything.

[@kari7403]

People like that are just hopeless. You could take them back in time and show them exactly how it all happened and they still wouldn't believe it.

[@TGPDrunknHick]

apparently black people invented everything... well it's true that a black guy might have been involved as a co-creator of many things or even made strides to improve existing things. people just ignore the co-creators or the fact that it was an improvement on something someone else invented. not like there aren't other things that were invented by black people or that it really matters that it was a black guy who made it in the first place.

[@kari7403]

DrunknHick That is actually a VERY good point.

[@padoco73]

Canola is rapeseed oil. It's actually a contraction of "Canadian Oil Low Acid." The word was invented because rape oil has really awful connotations.

[@artistwithouttalent]

Patrick Connors So here's one for Simon and Daven: Where did the name "rape seed" come from?

[@padoco73]

Excellent question.

[@jmchez]

Patrick Connors, that's a fact worthy of this channel. Thanks. I never bothered to look up what the heck is a canola seed or vegetable.

[@kindlin]

Did you mean to make your potentially clever answer, a question? I couldn't find information on either the origin of the naming of rapeseed, or of any person named Francis Piere Rapist; so, you either have some inside knowledge or you just made it up!

[@andrewsuryali8540]

Rape is anglicization of rapum, the latin word for turnip. Rapeseed is a member of the turnip family.

[@mandolinic]

I'm English, and I recall when I was about 12 my parents bought this jar of some new fangled stuff called peanut butter. We all tried it; but only once, because once was enough. The jar remained at the back of the shelf until my mother finally threw it out. This confirms what I always thought: peanut butter is a disgusting concoction that is a waste of good peanuts.

[@GasNBullets]

And this is why I love this channel

[@bergumz]

Do a video on the origin of the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses". Love your content.

[@TheHoagie13]

I LOVE Peanut Butter 5g(and Jelly! On lightly toasted wheat-bread!!)

[@aedwa021]

that was a wild ride from start to finish

[@SamVillano]

That stat at the beginning misses the most important PB&J time: college-when you can afford nothing else, and it’s all you know how to make anyway.

[@jerelull2619]

Having heard that some kids have peanut allergies, I wonder how those kids *live* ! It was the first "food" I was allowed to make myself and my friends and I pretty much "lived" on it during our childhoods.

[@falldog3572]

To be a bit of a pedant, glycerin would be used primarily as an emulsifier (and a very effective one) to prevent the separation of the oils and solids, not as a preservative or sweetener.

[@usernameed]

Rapeseed and canola oil are the same thing therefore including both in a list is redundant

[@TheOtherBill]

Not only is it redundant, it's also repetitive, and it states the same thing twice.

[@mikahjohn2809]

I can see why "rapeseed" didn't catch on as well as "canola oil."

[@HughesEnterprises]

What kind of psychopath spreads the jelly on top of the peanut butter and then puts a piece of plain bread on top of that?!

[@AtlasReburdened]

I think Dahmer started that. It took a lot of experimenting with brains first though.

[@wolfcat1998]

Me. Wut.

[@HughesEnterprises]

+busi magen One piece of bread gets peanut butter applied to it. One piece of bread gets jelly applied to it. The two are put together. That is the only way to do it. Otherwise you are contaminating the space time continuum by prematurely mixing the jelly into the peanut butter, leaving a piece of bread to be slapped on as an afterthought, not being able to soak up any of the jelly as equally as the peanut butter has soaked into the other piece. Plus, what if you didn’t scoop enough jelly onto the bread the first time? You will be contaminating the jelly jar with the peanut butter adulterated spoon. Nobody wants peanut butter in their jelly jar.

[@AtlasReburdened]

+busi magen Phychopaths, well, and lazy mothers that don't care if their kids grow up right. I mean, how can you possibly get the ratio you want with that crap? OP is right. It's madness.

[@gideonthangcin8179]

Atlas WalkedAway I spread it in a way that There’s no Peanut butter or Jelly in the middle

[@Drew262]

From that last bonus fact, be it a chip or cake in the UK (Crisp or cake as we say), you really should look into the case of the Jaffa cake, and the court fight between McVities and the HMRC over weather that was cake or a biscuits, as it kinda links to the Pringle one as well. Biscuits are subject to VAT (now 20%) and cakes aren't. Jaffa cakes were eventually found to be a cake (not VAT) due to the very scientific process of when you leave a cake out in the open it goes hard. When you leave a biscuit out, it goes soft. Jaffa cakes go hard after a few hours out the packets, so are cakes.

[@TheOtherBill]

All VAT should be eliminated as it's nothing but theft of the peoples' money.

[@davidhoffman5789]

No, a VAT is good when applied correctly to ALL products and services. In the USofA we end up with a mess of fully taxed goods, partially taxed goods, untaxed goods, untaxed services, etcetera.

[@TauGDS]

@@davidhoffman5789 you also don't include tax on the label, that doesn't exactly help

[@PollyBonanzas]

I was trying to find this video for the Pringles bit, and it was super hard to find, because I couldn't remember that it was only a bonus fact and not the full video.

[@vedal1358]

Man I could really go for some Potato cake right about now.

[@LikaLaruku]

"Pringles were briefly considered a cake in the UK" lol.

[@gejyspa]

At 3:15, you mentioned, "prevent[ing] interstate commerce of items that weren't properly labelled" as kind of a throw-away. But actually, this was important. Without something in the law claiming that it dealt with interstate commerce, the Constitution would have considered outside the purview of the federal government. The interstate commerce clause is the linchpin of the vast majority of federal regulations today (since around the New Deal era), something probably never considered by the original framers. The Supreme Court sometimes throws out laws that the federal government can't reasonably link to this clause (or something else in Article 1, section 8), such as the attempted banning of automatic weapons near schools.

[@billbilly8709]

Kind of funny that this popped up on my feed as I was having a peanut butter jelly sandwich.

[@RetroMonkey1999]

I'm 38 and just ate my first pb&j this month. No one in my family eats them, so I was never given one previously. They're not bad.

[@pamholloway5962]

Thanks for a really interesting vid.

[@OldGrey_Cat]

In my part of Australia, it used to be called peanut paste. By our laws, lemon butter had to have butter or be called lemon spread, and a similar ruling must have applied, as in the Netherlands. However, the multinational food groups swayed things, so "peanut butter" labels became routine by the 1980s. A few years back, I found out that "peanut paste" is now a technical term for the additive-free pure paste, a staple of the big industrial side of food processing - but the "just nuts" type of spread in the supermarket is still labelled "peanut butter." Go figure!

[@copperhamster]

Pringles wanted to be a cake and eat it too?

[@promontorium]

Have their cake and chip it too.

[@manfromnantucket9544]

This is relevant to my interest.

[@amandajones661]

Yummy!!! Eating one now!!

[@maskedduelist1380]

Just out of curiosity, does Daven plan on hosting any more vids? I miss his occasional pop-ins.

[@StephenMortimer]

Appeal to his VANITY

[@TodayIFoundOut]

+Maskedduelist 13 Yes. Just super swamped at the moment, so only time for behind the scenes stuff right now. :-) -Daven

[@maskedduelist1380]

Today I Found Out Cool! :)

[@JoelReid]

Something related to this discussion si the vast array of laws governing the definiton of different processed meat types, particularly sausage variations like Salami (how much fat it should have), British sausage (the television series, Yes Minister is famed for addressing this interesting one), pepperoni, the many German sausage definitions... and so on.

[@AvailableUsernameTed]

House Un-American Activities Committee Hearings 1956: "Mr. Chairman my client is a good peanut butter loving American patriot!! He does not consort with Nutella eaters!!"

[@W1ldSm1le]

Toasted peanut butter and banana sandwiches are the actual God tier sammich. Get on my level Whistler.

[@surferdude4487]

Pringles are delicious! Try BBQ pringles with pink grapefruit soda.

[@kevin7rxxx346]

Hooray for peanut butter...glad it improved nutrition laws

[@presumedlivingston9384]

"Peanut Butter Wars" would have been a WAY better name

[@crazyburkey3677]

Gotta mix the PB&J up in a cup before you spread it on your bread, also works with honey or syrup

[@lgbtaresins]

Pb&j, toasted bread, coffee or beer that’s all I need for pleasure.

[@shellchenonceau7832]

I do wonder if (like our politicians seem to accept $$$ to support certain stances) perhaps the food regulatory agencies &/or research labs came to accept $$$ to promote skewed lab results? Or could well meaning politicians & agency personnel be blackmailed?

[@eZU4nQsWN9pAGsU38aHj]

Castle Chick absolutely. That’s why there are massive differences between diet recommendations. You got corn industry pushing that you need cereal in the morning. Heart association going against coconut oil with no proper evidence coz the USA does not produce them thus does not gain much cash from them compared to other alternatives. Pro soy lobby hating on meat industry and the meat industry throwing out similar garbage science on soy etc. All sides are paid off and it fucking sucks :(

[@Ranchhand323]

Wow Simon , that was a long one !

[@ktadamsII]

Do a video on VAT.

[@MLDeS100]

I really want a PB&j now...

[@markinnes4264]

I used to eat tons of PB and J sandwiches.... but I stopped buy jam a few years ago and stopped buying bread two years ago. Now I have 100% natural peanut butter and a banana or an apple and no bread or jam. Less sugar and starchy crbs mean I've lost a lot of weight.

[@RoxGirl88]

This Video makes me hungry, because I love PB&J Sandwiches!

[@CommunistKiro]

Do a VAT vid, baldman.

[@Bigtexatx11]

Personally I prefer mixed nut butter. Take almond, cashew, macadamia, and filbert nut butters and mix them all up. Stir in some watermelon syrup and you would not believe how good it tastes.

[@jmchez]

WTF is that? Had me until the watermelon syrup.

[@Bigtexatx11]

Oh yeah, watermelon syrup is great. Haven't you ever put maple syrup in peanut butter? Watermelon syrup in mixed nut butter is just taking it to the next level of culinary greatness. Trust me, don't knock it until you try it.

[@jmchez]

"Trust me, don't knock it until you've tried it." Ha, hah, ha! Those are famous last words.

[@andyking957]

Thanks for highlighting the food industry often nearly criminals doings are around that long.

[@tohopes]

I expect my peanut butter to contain Peanuts and Salt; no more, no less.

[@georgecataloni4720]

Be careful what you wish for. Nut butters (including peanut butter) are drippy and bland without additives.

[@tohopes]

Yes I am already familiar with natural nut butters. I could never go back to the sweetened, lubricated stuff now. Unadulterated peanut butter may require a bit of stirring to get it to a smooth consistency for spreading, but it's worth the effort in my book.

[@georgecataloni4720]

In my experience, no amount of stirring could thicken it enough to not drip off of a spoon like honey would. Also, it's much dryer going down, which sounds odd considering the fluidity, but that's what it was. My preferred brand is "natural" Jiff. It has palm oil and molassas, which makes it slightly sweet (but not too sweet, comparitively), and really buttery. Delicious!

[@tohopes]

That is hilarious. Several years ago, manufacturers were using the word "natural" to signify peanut butter without additives like sugar and non-peanut oil. But as you point out, Jiff is now using the word "natural" to describe the lower-salt version of their regular adulterated peanut butter. I guess there's no government regulation of the word "natural" as applied to peanut butter.

[@georgecataloni4720]

It's not about low salt (it is labeled low sodium, though), "natural" peanut butter has a lot less additives in general, comparitively. No hydrogenated oils, for example. Idk what else, but the ingredients list is shorter. But Idc what they call it. It is what it is, and I like what it is. The words "natural" and "organic" have no real meaning. Humans, therefore their actions, are a part of nature, too.

[@kristophertower3476]

i like the peanut butter on top...(flips his sandwich over)....whew thats better

[@ginnyjollykidd]

YEA! the FDC were the good guys!

[@templartime1624]

hey huge fan of the show. i was wondering if you could do an episode about Ed and Lorraine warren

[@zohaibzohaib526]

y blue ink is commonly use all over the world for writing.

[@scottthompson292]

Obviously the short answer is cost. Cheaper than black ink.

[@stephenwright8824]

The religious commune wasn't WH Kellogg's but belonged to his brother John. Google Battle Creek Sanatorium for details. The brothers were partners until John obsessed on corn "flakes," something William improved upon and was a success as his company's first product. John even sued WH over the rights. Their falling out was both acid and permanent.

[@socktier6334]

I’ve never tasted peanut butter. Is it better than Nutella?

[@Saint_nobody]

Nutella is Bullshit

[@SlyPearTree]

I was about to reply with an emphatic YES but then I remembered that I never tasted Nutella.

[@feenyxblue]

Depends on your thoughts of chocolate

[@homeschooledrapper9174]

MakaveliThaSavage Depends. It's like peanuts but like sweet. If you like the chocolatey flavor more than nuts, then no.

[@scruffybones321]

Try some for yourself! Doesn't have to be in a sandwich either, you can put it in all sorts or just eat it straight out of the jar. Unlike Nutella it's generally also 100% peanuts so it's high in protein and essential fats with virtually no sugar. Just don't buy reduced fat butter, as it's filled with sugar/sweeteners to add flavour back and the taste and texture are fucking horrible. Makes even less sense when you consider the fats are actually good for you, and removing them only to replace them with artificial sweeteners is all kinds of wrong.

[@isaacthomas9279]

My favorite brand is Adams it’s from Costco which is a store in America

[@AdZS848]

How did I miss this??

[@a.nameline653]

Pringles...Giant snack flakes are not structurally sound for dipping in peanut butter. They do taste great with PB&J.

[@rezkel7404]

The more I find out about the worlds fair the more I am sad it is no longer a thing

[@jamesslick4790]

I love Peanut Butter. I love everything about Peanut butter; My wife's maiden name is REESE! 😲🤣

[@draknon6662]

The official shirt of Today I Found Out

[@mattjohnston2]

How recent are those stats about pb&j sandwich consumption? I just wonder with the relatively recent increase in peanut allergies, how much those stats are affected?

[@thediamondcreeper1413]

Matt Johnston I came here half expecting the case involving something about it being poisoned as a result of someone having an allergic reaction and it being mistook for some kind of poison

[@Zanzubaa]

I love PB&J toasted sandwiches. Eat 2 almost everyday. I am in my 30s, not a kid. No shits given, PB is delicious.

[@2MeterLP]

Is diabetes one of your hobbies?

[@tomservo5007]

are you saying PB doesn't give you the shits?

[@georgecataloni4720]

I eat peanut butter straight from the jar with a spoon.

[@Zanzubaa]

It does not have any added sugar. The stuff I eat is made from 100% peanuts. Nothing else added. How much natural sugar peanuts contain I do not know, even if it is high I will eat it all the same!

[@TheOtherBill]

No salt? I've made my own peanut butter both with and without salt, I hated the unsalted one.

[@johnlarson111]

pringles= cancer in a can

[@eac-ox2ly]

And me, a humble brazilian, never ate peanut butter until I was twenty years old, lmao.

[@SpOnGeBoB-db6mu]

I'd bet almost anything that @SimonWhistler made a PB&J after he uploaded this video.

[@tohopes]

Do you live at a grocery store? Why do people buy English muffins at your house?

[@rompetiss]

I have a feeling Simon likes to talk about Whistleblowers

[@cheeto4493]

I'm glad there were peanut butter hearings. Because I originally read it as peanut butter herrings. That sounded very fishy.

[@neepgang4091]

Once every 4 days? Lmao I survive off that shit

[@macsnafu]

Whenever I think the U.S. is hopelessly screwed up, all I have to do is remember such European 'innovations' like the VAT to realize that things aren't *that* bad yet. The EU is continuing the grand tradition of screwing things up.

[@CrazyBear65]

Peanutbutter is one word.

[@intzbk1]

Can you do one on the history of VATs and what countries use them? Does the tax get used for anything important or just more government slush money?

[@chriscostello117]

The tube of potato cakes please!

[@jacobarmstrong9967]

mmmm I love Pringles cakes!

[@hotdrippyglass]

I would have become a lawyer but I decided not to sell my soul.

[@christopherconard2831]

Try finding ice cream in the freezer section of a grocery store. A lot of it is now "frozen dessert" due to the lack of dairy content.

[@catlover10192]

Funnily enough, the cheapest generic stuff (at least at Walmart) is sill Ice Cream.

[@amandajones661]

Me side-eyeing my Jif peanut butter.

[@chadcastagana9181]

0:36 I heard it was a Black American Indiana Dentist whom invented peanut butter for his toothless patients ton get a source of protein in their diets. 0:58 Plain organic peanut butter is quite tasteless- believe me! 1:41 Didn't Kellogg operate his health spa at Weyville?(Road to Weyville is a film with Anthony Hopkins) 4:23 Glycerin is a sugar-alcohol? A major component of today's peanut butter is molasses. All this litigation sure does make lawyers rich!

[@Westerlywick]

the sound on this one did not line up with the video which was really distracting. Was it just my player that had this issue?

[@uglynerfherder]

I've had a total of 20 or less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

They should have stayed with the 95%

[@poorlydunbarvideos1472]

You list rapeseed oil and canola oil separately during the hydrogenated oils portion but canola is rapeseed oil. Renamed for the Canadian market and then adopted globally. Love the vids tho

[@leotamer5]

Isn't rapeseed oil just canola oil?

[@dippst]

canola is a specific strain of rapeseed. kinda like apples. functionally the same, but different.

[@promontorium]

yes

[@TiberianFiend]

leotamer5 With 100% more rape.

[@Aeturnalis]

Canola is like a brand name for rapeseed oil, from CANadian Oil, Low Acid.

[@promontorium]

From previous episodes it seems like even Americans used to call cookies biscuits. So what's going on there? Why cookies vs. biscuits? And why do Brits wrongly call fries "chips"? They aren't even chipped. A chip is a chip of potato. A fry is like a chunk, a slice...a french cut ---> then fried. A french cut fried potato.... a french fry.

[@davidhoffman5789]

100% true British potato chips are made by slicing the potato into disk shaped pieces, not long pieces, thus the word chips. The round disk cutting takes longer and has a higher percentage of unusable product compared to the long cuts used for French Fries. Even though the UK cooks changed the cut they never changed the name.

[@scottthompson292]

Rather than asking 'why do Brits wrongly call fries "chips"?' A better question would be why do americans feel the need to try to impose their bullshit on the rest of the world. It's not just the Brits that call a chip a chip.

[@davidhoffman5789]

Two "empires" divided by a common language: table (v.) in parliamentary sense, 1718, originally "to lay on the (speaker's) table for discussion," from table (n.). But in U.S. political jargon it has the sense of "to postpone indefinitely" (1866). Related: Tabled; tabling. english.stackexchange.com/questions/16285/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-expression-we-can-table-this Etymology Thomas Jefferson had "potatoes served in the French manner" at a White House dinner in 1802.[12][13] The expression "French fried potatoes" first occurred in print in English in the 1856 work Cookery for Maids of All Work by E. Warren: "French Fried Potatoes. - Cut new potatoes in thin slices, put them in boiling fat, and a little salt; fry both sides of a light golden brown colour; drain."[14] This account referred to thin, shallow-fried slices of potato - it is not clear where or when the now familiar deep-fried batons or fingers of potato were first prepared. In the early 20th century, the term "French fried" was being used in the sense of "deep-fried" for foods like onion rings or chicken.[15][16] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries#Etymology Language and word usage gets messy over time as cultures mix and separate. Look at how fouled up the difference between yam and sweet potato has gotten in the USofA. Two very different foods, but some language screwups in the food industry now has the word yam meaning two very different things.

[@scottthompson292]

Reguardless of how selectively you cherry pick a definition from selected sources, you cannot deny that different countries (and cultures) have their own names for certain items. To the British, 'chips' are a chunk of potato, cut in whatever style and deep fried, served hot generally with salt. The term is not dependent on length or girth, but the manner in which it's served. Now take a 'crisp'... Basically a wafer of potato that is baked or fried until crispy and seasoned with many and varied flavourings and sold cold in packets. To americans, 'fries' have the same general definition as British 'chips' and american 'chips' have the same general definition as British 'crisps' be it made from potato, corn or anything else. Now throw into the mix Australian vernacular where 'chips' can mean both British chips (often refered to as hot chips) AND american chips, being the flavoured packet chips sold cold, in sealed bags. For the crux of the argument perhaps now, given the above definitions, why is it that americans demand that British, and Australian, and any other culture that share similar definitions are expected to completely ignore their culture and capitulate into referring to every day items by the american imposed naming scheme (and this extends far beyond just 'chips') simply because that's how it's done in america!!! While you're at it perhaps you'd like to explain how some 'democratically' elected dickhead from america is automatically the 'ruler of the free world'!!!????

[@davidhoffman5789]

I do not know about anyone else but I certainly do not demand that another culture use USofA terms for many items. If I was in the UK I would guess I would use "lift" for what we call an "elevator", "boot" for "trunk", "bonnet" for "hood", and so on. By the way, the people of Central America and South America have requested that the people of the world know that "American" technically means anyone in the North, Central, and South American regions, not just the USofA. Since we seemingly cannot refer to only those people who are citizens of the USofA as "Americans" I am not sure what we should be named. Usanians?

[@AC-ih7jc]

Hence the difference between actual American *cheese* and *Kraft Singles* or *cheese food product*

[@promontorium]

I had heard the other potato chip companies wanted Pringles not to be called chips because they were pressed from powder and flakes. I didn't even know they weren't even 50% potato. Protip: Make your own chips. You can use a potato peeler. Just keep swiping into the potato, makes perfect chip sized pieces. Rinse a little in water to get some of the starch off (so they don't stick together), let them dry a minute on a paper towel so they don't explode in the oil. Then toss them in hot oil until they start to darken a little. They cook really fast. Once they're out, season with salt and whatever spices look good, like garlic powder. Voila, the best damn potato chips you will ever have.

[@davidhoffman5789]

Sure, let me do that for the 100 guests I have coming to a party. No, I think I will stick with potato chips from reputable companies that produce high quality potato chips. Lay's.

[@judgeomega]

i got some bbq chips from walmart, didnt have any seasoning at all on them... not even salt. Ya, Lays is a good call.

[@davidhoffman5789]

Ha! You might have picked up one of the experimental "how low can we go" cost reductions by the Great Value(GV) brand. Show pretty photographs of delicious looking food, but deliver plain food. Lots of supposedly spicy GV food products are devoid of spices. Pizza sauce, pasta sauce, cooking broths, cinnamon flavored products, and so on. I think it may be a conspiracy to get you to go to the spice aisle and buy spices there. ;-)

[@mightybasher9509]

Toast peanut butter and maple syrup is the bomb!! Best have a lot of milk. You’re welcome

[@OpusBuddly]

Try a grilled peanut butter and Swiss cheese sandwich sometime. Also peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches are pretty good too, especially after smoking some weed.

[@josepholesco2061]

Skippy Peanut Butter got it's name from The comic Strip Skippy by Percy Crosby.I think Crosby's descendants are still trying to sue the peanut butter company for copyright infringement

[@yoshiiyanishimura1244]

The volume indicator on my phone at the beginning lines up perfectly with the tip of your head.

[@poochie81]

Yoshiiya lol

[@thediamondcreeper1413]

Yoshiiya it really does

[@gtracer6629]

I'm 76 years old and have never eaten a peanut & jelly sandwich. Also, never mixed ice cream and cake. I dont like wet & dry food together.

[@jonnda]

I misread the title... I thought it said "peanut butter harrings". No more 4am youtube for me.

[@richb313]

It is actually Peanut Paste or Peanut Spread. Peanut butter does not exist but butter on a Peanut Spread sandwich is great.

[@StephenMortimer]

Well done Blitz !!