Cross cultural eating habits

I get the 1/2 gallon jars of Skippy Creamy at Costco because that's where the pb is truly American.

My son will ask for some pb by locating his spoon and pointing to the jar and saying something like "Boodah, Boodah".  Presumably that means "peanut butter".  He doesn't do this with my wife because he knows it's only a daddy thing.

I will open the top and he will dig out a spoonful or two, and then give me the spoon so I can dig out a spoonful or two.  Then we both say "mmmmm....." and put it away.

He's now 35 months and this has been going on since he was about 18 months.

1/2 gallon jars!!!!!!  I'm getting my membership in the US when I get back!  I must have that amount of peanut butter, I MUST!  (I love Skippy, I have dinky jars here!)

1/2 gallon jars!!!!!!  I'm getting my membership in the US when I get back!  I must have that amount of peanut butter, I MUST!  (I love Skippy, I have dinky jars here!)

I never had a US membership.  They didn't exist at all when I relocated.  But I joined the one just outside of the M25 after my newest son was born.  American pb and American steaks. 

Dammit Garry reading about wonderful things like 1/2 gallon jars of peanut butter has me now saying mmmmmm lol.

You eat it cowboy style?  i.e., straight from the jar with a spoon?

Not with the generic crap found over here but with proper US peanut butter you bet.  It's probably the one food item (besides pickes) that makes me totally gluttonous

You eat it cowboy style?  i.e., straight from the jar with a spoon?

everybody knows real cowboys use straws

I love PB on apples!  My english boyfriend looked at me like i was from Mars when i chopped up slices and sat with the jar of Skippy.  Didn't take long to convert him.  I also told him that growing up we had a lot of "ants on a log" which was PB in a celery stick with raisins on top.  He shook his head in wonder.

It makes me wonder what sorts of things my children will eat.  We live in yorkshire and will most likely be here for the rest of our lives and raise children here.  I still find it slightly odd that on Sunday DB's family serves 3 forms of potatoes with the big family meal.  Have US mothers done a mixture of cultural foods or stuck with British things?

Not with the generic crap found over here but with proper US peanut butter you bet.  It's probably the one food item (besides pickles) that makes me totally gluttonous

I totally agree with you I wont eat the pb over here either after the pickles let me down I decided not to even try the pb.   to me it looks like baby poo well it looked that way when I first came here to the UK in July 2004. maybe it has changed I haven't paid it any attention to notice if it has changed from what I remember it looking like. Dh wont eat it so all my American pb is all mine. I have two huge plastic containers of Skippy pb another UK Yankee member gave free of charge.  I always have a pb &j sandwich after I weigh-in on Wednesday morning thats my breakfast as well.     I go straight to the gym after my WW meeting so I work off my pb &j guilty pleasure. I bought some small individual Jiff pb containers when I was home last time they are perfect with apple slices just the right amount  of pb.

One of my favorites is peanut butter with celery.  Get a big stalk and scoop the PB right out of the jar.

While perhaps less civilized, letting the toddlers eat from the jar directly is much more convenient. 

My 1st son ate pb sandwiches starting at about 3 and one day he stuffed one into the VHS player just like it was a movie.  I guess he thought that if it tasted good, it might be worth watching on TV.  So after that came the spoon method.

My 2nd son loves it, and all the little Russian toddlers that come around love it too.  Their mothers, on the other hand, approach it like it might be explosive or radio-active.  Massively suspicious. 

They dip the tippy end of their pinky finger into the jar and taste hardly enough to even see.     Then they approve their child to have a small spoonful.

Peanut butter is the most distinctly American food there is.

My great-aunt Edwina used to let us have "peanut-butter spoons" as a treat when we were little.  Which are exactly what they sound like - giant spoonfuls of peanut butter, straight from the jar.  One apiece, so you'd better make your dip count!

Too funny! As a kid I remember my best friend and I taking a big huge spoonful of peanut butter and putting chocolate chips on top and calling it "salad" 

PB must be the US equivalent of Marmite!  When I even think about it, I shudder!!

Peanut butter is good for making gado gado but I can't stand it in sandwiches etc, I hate the way it sticks to the roof of your mouth. Why does it do that?