Notes on Food: Part VI

I think I've mentioned before the bizarre propensity Americans have for adding peanut butter to whatever candy products they can. Any particular confectionery you can conceivably stuff peanut butter into, they do it. In England you just put it on your toast, maybe make a peanut butter sandwich if you're feeling particular outre. Here it's like its own food group. Reece's peanut butter cups are a major one- are they just cups? Of peanut butter? It's like making miniature bowls of jam and calling them sweets.

Having had my moment of outrage at the peanut butter/candy crossover, I can't say I actually mind. I mean, I do find peanut butter really tasty. Have you ever seen that movie Meet Joe Black? It's very boring, it has Brad Pitt in it as the incarnation of death (I know, sounds promising! And yet it's still boring). When tasting never before experienced earthly pleasures, Death/Brad spends a lot of the film wandering around eating peanut butter with a teaspoon from a jar, just because he finds it the ability to eat peanut butter one of the very best things about being human. That's how I feel about peanut butter. I love it. (I think that's also why I've seen Meet Joe Black at least three times, even though it is incredibly dull.)


So, I love the peanut butter, and I love Nutter Butters. They are delightful biscuit sandwiches with a delicious peanut butter centre. Yum yum. They are also helpfully shaped like nuts, so you don't get confused about what you are eating. The nut texture on the surface of the biscuit is a very nice touch too, I always think. Nutter Butter bites are also especially enjoyable; they retain the peanut patterning but are round instead of peanut-shaped. Good for eating hundreds of while watching movies. I heart Nutter Butters!