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[–] FatherPeanut@pawb.social 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It is rough that many types of peanut butter contain the sugar content they do. Really deceptive with how significant it builds up to being once put into perspective. I encourage y'all to try plain peanut butter, just nuts and salt. Gonna be a slightly different experience, but the peanut intensity is just so much greater, and man its much healthier.

Speaking from experience, as I am actively eating it now.

[–] square@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

As a child I had a mission, one I failed at over and over again. I wanted to make peanut butter toast as good as Grandma. PB toast at my grandparents' house was delicious, at home it was trash. I thought I had it the time I noticed she put a little butter on it before the PB. My disappointment was immeasurable when I found that although it helped, it was still nowhere as good. I could never get above a 4/5 to Grandma's 10. I started to wonder, was it just the environment? Was it sitting in Grandma's sunny kitchen before going golfing with Grandpa that made it the food of the gods?

At some point I stopped trying and it became one of those things from childhood I forgot; until my girlfriend (now wife) went grocery shopping and bought real PB. It immediately brought back memories that I hadn't had for over a decade. I realized this was it, it was so simple, Grandma had the real shit and I only had Skippy/Jiff shit.

It still blows my mind. How the fuck did my parents' generation, who grew up with the good stuff, accept this shitty substitute? It's not even cheaper. I just checked the nearest grocery store and the ones that are just peanuts and salt are the cheapest.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] farting_gorilla@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I tried to start a peanut butter religion with my friends. We came up with names of deities, holy rites, and decided that priests had to wear the mr peanut outfit. Sadly we couldn't get many others to convert to our new religion….
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May Pata Pinati bless you this day

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

After eating "natural" peanut butter for a long time, the "regular" peanut butter seems sketchy AF now. Loaded with chemicals.

[–] criscodisco@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Ingredients: peanuts, salt.

This is what I want in my PB

[–] 9gagescapee@altgag.net 7 points 1 day ago

"serving size" is a BS scam. it's "whatever amount so the calories look OK"...

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 1 day ago

I'm not out of touch, those lying fucks trying to obscure the calories are at fault

[–] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The serving size is what I snack on while I'm making my peanut butter sandwich.

[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The serving size is whats left on the knife or spoon after im done getting the amount i need

[–] AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 124 points 2 days ago (26 children)

Aren't the serving sizes intentionally small so they can get away with saying that stuff has less sugar?

Tic-tacs are 94% sugar. A serving of tic-tacs is 1 tic-tac, which is just under half a gram. The FDA considers less than half a gram of sugar in a serving to be negligible and not required to be listed.

In other words, a product that is 94% sugar is legally sugar-free.

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Smaller portion = less sugar, fat, salt, calories etc... If I remember correctly a few states have addressed making unrealistic portion sizes for the label as making misleading claims.

[–] skvlp@feddit.nl 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nutrients should always be listed in pr 100g or in percent (effectively the same).

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Its incomprehensible to me that this isn't mandatory around the world

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In the EU (probably in the rest of europe too) you must have a per 100 gram (you can have bullshit "portions" too if you want to, but the "per 100 gram" must be there).

How the hell do you americans compare different brands??

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[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tic tacs have a serving size of less than a gram so they can claim 0g of sugar.

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

They are almost always 1 oz (28g).

But, individually packaged stuff does tend to pull bullshit like “1 serving=half a bottle of soda”

Peanut butter is probably going to be fine though

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[–] CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 27 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Suggested serving sizes have never been realistic. Manipulated by the manufacturer to make us think the food is lower in calories than it actually is.

In reality we all serve ourselves a fifth of a jar. List THOSE calories on the label please.

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah ‘serving size: three jelly beans’ or ‘one Oreo cookie’ are not realistic even for people who don’t actually binge them.

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[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That 2 tablespoon serving shows me that i regularly eat 4 servings per sammich.

[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Bro, what the fuck

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's 4 tablespoons in a quarter cup, so 8 would be half a cup of peanut butter. Seems like a lot, but I haven't had peanut butter in years because of allergies

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

I was going to join those commenting that that seems like a lot, but then I thought about how I nake peanut butter sandwiches. You've really got to trowel it on, or what's the point, right?

[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (7 children)

It's the recommended serving sizes that are out of touch with reality.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

Damn personal size potato chip bag said 2.5 servings!

A single serving was like 6 chips!

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[–] West_of_West@piefed.social 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Half my diet was stopping eating peanut butter. The other half was drinking less. Helth

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Peanut butter is delicious but it's basically the neutron star of food calories! Makes me sad.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's one of the reasons peanut butter is an incredible survival food. Nutrient/calorie dense, doesn't need refrigeration, shelf stable for a long long time, it's delicious. It checks a lot of boxes that not many other foods can.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Yes, PB is great for camping/hiking for this reason.

Cheese is another one.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's not me that's out of touch with reality, peanut butter jar.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

We would like to remind you that your peanut butter jar will never talk back to you and, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that your peanut butter jar does speak, we urge you to eat its contents immediately and dispose of the jar responsibly. Please recycle.

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You guys get multiple servings from a jar?

[–] username@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago

You only use one jar?

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