The same idiots that say this are the ones who think Nutella is some transcendental ambrosia even though it's more palm oil than either hazelnuts or cocoa.
Thank you. People love it or hate it but don’t seem to understand it’s just bland palm oil. I want to like it. I’m their core demographic in many ways but there’s not enough flavor to like or dislike, and why would I eat palm oil?
I laugh my ass off when every few years someone combines peanuts and jelly on the Great British Bake-off and literally every single time all the other British people are like “wow, you have invented literally a brand new innovative and delicious cuisine”.
There was an episode I remember where they explored Mexican cuisine and a contestant said 'Gacky-molo' for 'Guacamole' and that has stuck with me since.
Please be advised that your meme will be slathered with creamy peanut butter and drizzled with melted chocolate. Afterwards, you may immediately go and pound sand.
Should you decide to spread this misinformation further, we will be forced to place a bounty on you. When you are captured, you will be taken to Hershey Park and doused with Hershey’s chocolate syrup in front of many peanut butter & chocolate lovers.
For good measure, the public will be armed with crunchy peanut butter balls dipped in milk chocolate if you attempt to escape (dark chocolate covered peanut butter balls sold separately).
Sincerely,
The American Committee for Chocolate & Peanut Butter Advancement
You also want chocolate-coated grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with mint chocolate-chip ice cream. Just... try it. We won't watch. Just the one time.
I’ve genuinely never understood how people can stand chocolate and fruit together. Or fruit and coffee for that matter. Chocolate and coffee taste kinda similar to me though so those mix well..
But fruit with either is just super nasty to me.
All that said, the best chocolate I’ve ever had was some imported thing that tasted vaguely of raspberry, but wasn’t actually supposed to. It was just chocolate that got stored with other candies.
When I was a kid, my family went to go visit some extended family in rural southern France. It was going to be over Halloween, and since the French don’t celebrate it, we brought some American Halloween candy for them to try. To our surprise, they loved it, especially the Reese’s cups. We had expected them to find it gross, since they had much higher quality chocolate in Europe.
A bar of Hershey's, you can really taste the butyric acid that forms during their unique process. In a Reece's cup, the high sugar content of the filling (it's not really even peanut butter) overpowers it. I actually like Reece's but Hershey's is a last resort chocolate.
I'll assume this is a very European take, and point out that Europeans don't even ever eat peanuts or peanut butter anyways as it was written off as colonist fodder unfit for their 'queenly' pallette. They also don't like corn, which has the juice, so like yea man we know their tastes are stuck in like the 18th century. Go on darling, have your fermented herring and duck pate 😬 we'll continue actually using the spices and flavors from the new world
Why not have both? I've lived in the western US my entire life, but I think pickled herring is delicious, and I made rillettes (which is like a pate) just the other day.
Idk how other countries do peanut butter, but ours is usually sweetened. Goes great with candy, dessert, acai bowls, milkshakes, pancakes, crepes, etc. etc
Then there’s the Elvis Presley burger… Though I haven’t tried it so I won’t knock it😆
A gazillion years ago I was in a shop that had an american aisle, so I bought some some american chocolate that had peanut butter in it. Reese's, I think?
Anyways it tasted slightly like chalky chocolate vomit with peanut butter on it.
I thought I'd got a bad batch so the next time I saw some I got something from Hershey's. Again, chocolate vomit.
Never had any of that shit since.
Cadbury's in the UK have been adding extra things to their chocolate bars for years now. My cynical brain tells me it's to mask the fact that they've changed things and lowered the quality of their products.
When did this happen? A few years after it was sold to Kraft, an american 'food' company...
The common explanation is that Hershey's chocolate contains some amount of butyric acid which tastes/smells like vomit. Adam Ragusea on YT did a pretty solid video on it.
American regular grocery store brands of chocolate are horrible. Hershey’s and all the rest. Of course it’s the cheapest ingredients drowned in sugar to cover the otherwise poor taste. Cadbury’s now tastes waxy to me. Used to be pretty good. All in the name of profit.
Aldi in the US actually has really decent chocolate, their Choceur label for milk chocolate is quite good. Good luck finding it, I think the tariffs killed the availability, haven’t seen any for weeks.
I thik a lot of the US stuff are things you have to grow with. If you taste them once you're an adult, you see them for what they are and they'll never work for you. Hershey and Oreo being the obvious examples for me.
Hersheys has always been horrible but we never had any choices when I was growing up. I’ve had a huge variety of tastes though, from bad to horrible: I can only assume one of the many problems is either lack of environmental controls or keeping it way too long. We have much better options now and I haven’t voluntarily had Hersheys in a couple decades.
However I object to Your criticism of Reese’s. It’s fair to say it’s not quality chocolate, fair to say the filling isn’t really peanut butter, fair to say it’s ungodly sweet, but chalky? Yes, I love it: why?
I think we think it goes together because of Reese's. Like we see it as some classic combo. Ill say I've tried the combo several other ways and it really only works when the peanut butter is extremely, extremely sweet.
Real. Peanut butter in general is so ass. Basically every other nut butter is superior yet Americans love to shove that gross, musty shite into everything.
Peanuts end up in everything because they're very cheap, not because they're that good.
Peanut butter is ... fine. That's all you can honestly say. PB&J is edible at it's best, and then only rarely. Reese's is a testament to how easy it is to sell coagulated sugar and salt. Bougie peanut butter cups are just polished turds.
Thai is the only cuisine that knows what to do with peanuts.
I'm not American, but here's what I know about them.
They'll put chocolate on everything, ranch with everything, deep fry everything (but jot at home bc they can't cook), put coffee in their melted icecream
I'm willing to give you 1 out of 3. No we do not put chocolate on everything. No we do not put ranch on everything, but some unhealthy individuals put it on every vegetable. Yes we deep fry everything and goddamn does it taste good.
As with most stereotypes the amount people eat like you describe is overstated for humourous effect, as is often the case it's a question of how frequently one over indulges. Eating at a buffet occasionally is delicious. Eating at a buffet regularly is bad.
You can totally deep fry at home with a Fry Daddy. My experience is that no food is worse deep fried and some foods are substantially better. Saltines? Not worse. Bacon? A bit better.
108 Comments
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 111 pts · 301d
Hang on a minute, baby, someone is wrong on the internet.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 301d
Same types of people think pineapple don’t belong on pizza. Fucked in the head is what I call em.
EveningPancakes@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 111 pts · 301d
You shut your dirty whore mouth
ickplant@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 301d
Exactly the kind of lively discussion I was hoping for!
reptar@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 301d
Well, that's that. Close the thread
shalafi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 301d
Agreed. Close thread.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 301d
Happy cake day!
reptar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 301d
Oh for real? I've always rolled my eyes at such a thing, but :-)
kvasir476@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 301d
There are virtually infinite things to shit on us Americans for, and most of them deservedly so. But this one ain't it.
Give me peanut butter and chocolate or give me death.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 301d
gives you peanut butter and chocolate
That being said, this regeme might still give you death if you happen to be too brown.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 301d
peanut butter brown
or
chocolate brown
?
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 301d
Peanut butter brown is an African American with jaundice. So yeah - still too brown for current administration
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
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Darnton@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 301d
I'm pretty sure it is ragebait written by an American. Non-Americans don't really care about this at all.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 301d
and banana!
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
I was going to comment exactly this, except I'm not American
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
Isn't that the same? If you're eating peanut butter and chocolate together frequently, you're probably not long for this world...
Asafum@feddit.nl · 51 pts · 301d
I'll make it even better! Chocolate, peanut butter, and a sprinkle of salt
db2@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 301d
Sub the salt for a thick piece of crispy bacon. Thank me later.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 301d
perspectiveshifting@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 301d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 32 pts · 301d
Whoever wrote this is wrong and they know it.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 301d
The same idiots that say this are the ones who think Nutella is some transcendental ambrosia even though it's more palm oil than either hazelnuts or cocoa.
ynthrepic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 301d
Nutella mixed with the cheapest American peanut butter is heaven. Thank you globalisation.
gmtom@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 300d
Sometimes the greatest sins can become part of our most beloved miracles
AA5B@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
Thank you. People love it or hate it but don’t seem to understand it’s just bland palm oil. I want to like it. I’m their core demographic in many ways but there’s not enough flavor to like or dislike, and why would I eat palm oil?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 300d
I laugh my ass off when every few years someone combines peanuts and jelly on the Great British Bake-off and literally every single time all the other British people are like “wow, you have invented literally a brand new innovative and delicious cuisine”.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 300d
There was an episode I remember where they explored Mexican cuisine and a contestant said 'Gacky-molo' for 'Guacamole' and that has stuck with me since.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 300d
I thought I knew what a bad taco was before that episode. They proved me wrong.
tiny@midwest.social · 24 pts · 301d
This and avoiding taxes are the reasons why your tea is in the harbor
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 8 pts · 301d
Mostly the taxes thing, but this didn't help
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 301d
Ok, there's lots of stuff I don't like. Why not grab a Snickers?
Whoa there, it's just a Reese's cup...
Look, that's excessive, isn't it? And there's only one L in phi-
Calm down, psycho! Holy shit touch grass!
Ibaudia@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 300d
Abysmal take. Chocolate ice cream with frozen peanut butter swirled in is proof that god loves us.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 299d
as Katt Williams would say: god made that
Chrysanthemum@piefed.social · 14 pts · 301d
To whom it may concern:
Please be advised that your meme will be slathered with creamy peanut butter and drizzled with melted chocolate. Afterwards, you may immediately go and pound sand.
Should you decide to spread this misinformation further, we will be forced to place a bounty on you. When you are captured, you will be taken to Hershey Park and doused with Hershey’s chocolate syrup in front of many peanut butter & chocolate lovers.
For good measure, the public will be armed with crunchy peanut butter balls dipped in milk chocolate if you attempt to escape (dark chocolate covered peanut butter balls sold separately).
Sincerely,
The American Committee for Chocolate & Peanut Butter Advancement
and
The Reese’s Foundation
shalafi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 301d
Barbarism! Coating the villain in Hershey's. You are an animal, not fit to live among civilized men!
Maybe some dark chocolate?
Chrysanthemum@piefed.social · 6 pts · 301d
Dark chocolate sold separately, my friend.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 301d
Tar and feather then, but use chocolate sauce and roasted peanuts!
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 301d
Deep-fried Reese's cups. You know you want it. You want to dip them in strawberry jam, and top them with whipped cream, and a chocolate sauce drizzle. It's okay, we won't judge you.
You also want chocolate-coated grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with mint chocolate-chip ice cream. Just... try it. We won't watch. Just the one time.
MonkeyTown@midwest.social · 4 pts · 301d
I’ve genuinely never understood how people can stand chocolate and fruit together. Or fruit and coffee for that matter. Chocolate and coffee taste kinda similar to me though so those mix well..
But fruit with either is just super nasty to me.
All that said, the best chocolate I’ve ever had was some imported thing that tasted vaguely of raspberry, but wasn’t actually supposed to. It was just chocolate that got stored with other candies.
proudblond@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
If chocolate and coffee taste similar to you, I can see why you wouldn’t like it with fruit!
I like chocolate with my fruit (berries, apple even) but I don’t care for fruit in my chocolate bars, funny enough.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 301d
Woah Woah Woah. I'm Canadian and peanut butter and chocolate is also a thing here. Peanut butter may be my favourite thing. Why am I catching strays?
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 300d
Canada is part of America, just not the USA.
Peanuts and Cocoa are distinctly (South) American, if you can distance applying the term American just to the USA.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 300d
Yeah because when I'm aboard ppl always assume I'm Canadian or from Honduras when I say I'm American
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 300d
I’m not arguing the colloquial use of the term “American” here.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 300d
No, I cant
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 300d
I get that the connotation is Americans are people from the USA but it does erase some of the identity of the rest of the Americas.
All I was saying was it’s not surprising that the person from the Americas enjoys a combination of flavors distinctly from the Americas.
Peanuts and Cocoa are distinctly American, South American to be precise.
BlueLineBae@midwest.social · 12 pts · 301d
Counter point - Justin's dark chocolate peanut butter cups 🤤
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 301d
When I was a kid, my family went to go visit some extended family in rural southern France. It was going to be over Halloween, and since the French don’t celebrate it, we brought some American Halloween candy for them to try. To our surprise, they loved it, especially the Reese’s cups. We had expected them to find it gross, since they had much higher quality chocolate in Europe.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 300d
A bar of Hershey's, you can really taste the butyric acid that forms during their unique process. In a Reece's cup, the high sugar content of the filling (it's not really even peanut butter) overpowers it. I actually like Reece's but Hershey's is a last resort chocolate.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 301d
Peanut and choc you said?
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 300d
I’ve executed drone strikes in 3rd world countries for less than the absolute anger this post makes me feel
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 300d
Yeah, but you execute drone strikes in 3rd world countries all the time, CIA_chatbot, how can we tell when you're doing it out of genuine anger?
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
…. You know, that’s a good point.
qarbone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
Gotta up the drone strikes to set a spectrum. More strikes is more serious.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 301d
I just ate some choco coated peanuts. Here, have a choco peanut cookie.
simulacra_procession@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 300d
I'll assume this is a very European take, and point out that Europeans don't even ever eat peanuts or peanut butter anyways as it was written off as colonist fodder unfit for their 'queenly' pallette. They also don't like corn, which has the juice, so like yea man we know their tastes are stuck in like the 18th century. Go on darling, have your fermented herring and duck pate 😬 we'll continue actually using the spices and flavors from the new world
FishFace@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 300d
Europeans don't eat peanuts? Or chocolate?
rockstarmode@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
Why not have both? I've lived in the western US my entire life, but I think pickled herring is delicious, and I made rillettes (which is like a pate) just the other day.
VicVinegar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
Eastern US checking in. Three cheers for pickled herring! Can't get enough!
dmasterp@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 300d
Yeah but... Reese peanut butter cups 😍
DearMoogle@piefed.social · 8 pts · 301d
Idk how other countries do peanut butter, but ours is usually sweetened. Goes great with candy, dessert, acai bowls, milkshakes, pancakes, crepes, etc. etc
Then there’s the Elvis Presley burger… Though I haven’t tried it so I won’t knock it😆
Dasus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 300d
I don't want to upvote anyone and want to downvote everyone.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 301d
A gazillion years ago I was in a shop that had an american aisle, so I bought some some american chocolate that had peanut butter in it. Reese's, I think?
Anyways it tasted slightly like chalky chocolate vomit with peanut butter on it.
I thought I'd got a bad batch so the next time I saw some I got something from Hershey's. Again, chocolate vomit.
Never had any of that shit since.
Cadbury's in the UK have been adding extra things to their chocolate bars for years now. My cynical brain tells me it's to mask the fact that they've changed things and lowered the quality of their products.
When did this happen? A few years after it was sold to Kraft, an american 'food' company...
BlueAure@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 301d
The common explanation is that Hershey's chocolate contains some amount of butyric acid which tastes/smells like vomit. Adam Ragusea on YT did a pretty solid video on it.
Why Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)
Not all US chocolate tastes like Hershey.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 301d
American regular grocery store brands of chocolate are horrible. Hershey’s and all the rest. Of course it’s the cheapest ingredients drowned in sugar to cover the otherwise poor taste. Cadbury’s now tastes waxy to me. Used to be pretty good. All in the name of profit.
Aldi in the US actually has really decent chocolate, their Choceur label for milk chocolate is quite good. Good luck finding it, I think the tariffs killed the availability, haven’t seen any for weeks.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 301d
I thik a lot of the US stuff are things you have to grow with. If you taste them once you're an adult, you see them for what they are and they'll never work for you. Hershey and Oreo being the obvious examples for me.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
Hersheys has always been horrible but we never had any choices when I was growing up. I’ve had a huge variety of tastes though, from bad to horrible: I can only assume one of the many problems is either lack of environmental controls or keeping it way too long. We have much better options now and I haven’t voluntarily had Hersheys in a couple decades.
However I object to Your criticism of Reese’s. It’s fair to say it’s not quality chocolate, fair to say the filling isn’t really peanut butter, fair to say it’s ungodly sweet, but chalky? Yes, I love it: why?
bomberesque@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 300d
Pineapple on pizza
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 300d
Ham and pineapple complement one another with saltiness and sweetness. One amplifies the flavor of the other.
If you put canadian bacon next to the pineapple, its delicious. Also, really important to have pineapple that's not super fibrious in a mixed dish.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 301d
Peanut butter is an abomination and against the scriptures and an insult to God. Change my atheist mind.
VicVinegar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 300d
I think we think it goes together because of Reese's. Like we see it as some classic combo. Ill say I've tried the combo several other ways and it really only works when the peanut butter is extremely, extremely sweet.
FishFace@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 300d
I dunno about that, but I do know Reeses cups taste bad. Too much sweet and salty.
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 301d
Chocolate and jelly sandwiches are much better than peanut butter and jelly sandwiches though. Fight me.
ynthrepic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 301d
I do partake but it's not for the faint of heart.
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
Explain... what chocolate is spread on bread? Or do you simply mean hard chocolate sandwiched in the middle?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 300d
Chocolate spread, like Nutella.
It is basically fruit and chocolate taste, with tons of sugar.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 300d
This is truly a shitpost. That man is wrong and should feel bad for ever having uttered that nonsense.
DearMoogle@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 301d
BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 300d
L + ratio
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 300d
It's okay. I prefer dark chocolate with peanut butter rather than milk, but Reese's gonna reese.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 300d
Or even better:
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 300d
Yes, though they aren't usually available at the concession booth in that format. Trader Joe's has a nice basket of DC cups.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 301d
I'm a peanut hater so peanut anything with anything is a no no
Korne127@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 301d
That's typically Dutch though
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 301d
Chocolate bars are just slabs of fat with some drugs in em.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
Oh, FUCK THAT. World War III it is.
pseudo@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 300d
gmtom@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 300d
Real. Peanut butter in general is so ass. Basically every other nut butter is superior yet Americans love to shove that gross, musty shite into everything.
Hegar@fedia.io · -9 pts · 301d
This is so undeniably, objectively true.
Peanuts end up in everything because they're very cheap, not because they're that good.
Peanut butter is ... fine. That's all you can honestly say. PB&J is edible at it's best, and then only rarely. Reese's is a testament to how easy it is to sell coagulated sugar and salt. Bougie peanut butter cups are just polished turds.
Thai is the only cuisine that knows what to do with peanuts.
protist@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 301d
proceeds to provide personal opinion
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 301d
And an undeniably, objectively false one at that!
0ops@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 300d
"Objectively" is the new "literally". People are just out there throwing it in sentences without knowing what it means
Hegar@fedia.io · 1 pts · 300d
It is an objective truth of our reality, not subject to opinion or reasonable discussion, that peanuts are subpar on average and average at best.
Hegar@fedia.io · -4 pts · 301d
The peanut mania that grips this nation and blinds people to objective fact has you in its tentacular grasp.
snooggums@piefed.world · 5 pts · 301d
W R O N G
jodanlime@midwest.social · 8 pts · 301d
Sometimes I put peanuts on top of my peanut butter toast.
Hegar@fedia.io · -2 pts · 301d
You sir are worse than hitler.
Jerkface@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 301d
Get out.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 301d
Reece's is NOT peanut butter. Not even the same flavor profile.
gmtom@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
Hegar@fedia.io · 1 pts · 300d
It ok, I forgive them, they know not what they do.
gmtom@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -10 pts · 301d
I'm not American, but here's what I know about them.
They'll put chocolate on everything, ranch with everything, deep fry everything (but jot at home bc they can't cook), put coffee in their melted icecream
BlueLineBae@midwest.social · 14 pts · 301d
I'm willing to give you 1 out of 3. No we do not put chocolate on everything. No we do not put ranch on everything, but some unhealthy individuals put it on every vegetable. Yes we deep fry everything and goddamn does it taste good.
AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com · 10 pts · 301d
As with most stereotypes the amount people eat like you describe is overstated for humourous effect, as is often the case it's a question of how frequently one over indulges. Eating at a buffet occasionally is delicious. Eating at a buffet regularly is bad.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 301d
Yeah no I was joking too. Obviously just making a vast sweeping statement for humourus effect.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 301d
Damn Americans can’t live without their affogato /s
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 301d
I forgot about affogotos 😭
I just meant the 1000 calories coffee drinks
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 301d
You can totally deep fry at home with a Fry Daddy. My experience is that no food is worse deep fried and some foods are substantially better. Saltines? Not worse. Bacon? A bit better.