peanut butter
Anyone who paid any attention to my diet in the district will tell you that bread and peanut butter constituted a good half (or more) of my edible matter intake. They fit well with my utilitarian aka cheap tendencies.
Here in the Phils you can buy US style peanut butter for higher prices from some of the larger groceries, but mostly what is available is Pinoy-style peanut butter. Let's call it pinoybutter. (pinoy means filipino) Pinoybutter is not bad. The better brands are made of only peanuts, cane sugar, and salt, and are authentic enough that you even have to mix the oil back in. There are some local ones you can buy too. There is no such thing as chunky, though, and they are all super sweet by american standards. I've gotten used to it a bit, but it's still a lot of extra sugar.
Since peanut butter is relatively easy to come by, at least in Pinoy form, it's been something I've been buying for myself for breakfast in the morning. I put it on bread and on the cheaper chinese apples that I eat with my cheaper australian oatmeal. In theory I'm supposed to supply my own breakfast food. However, my host family also likes peanut butter and when it sits on the shelf it tends to disappear rather quickly. This is alright since I often eat things like fried eggs that my host mom prepares for me without my asking for them, and they do buy their own peanut butter which I, of course, haven't felt guilty about eating. Anyhow I figured I might simplify things and I could just pay them some extra pesos and we would all just share the peanut butter.
I'm not sure it will work out any better, but I'll keep you posted. Because I'm sure you're dying to know!
Here in the Phils you can buy US style peanut butter for higher prices from some of the larger groceries, but mostly what is available is Pinoy-style peanut butter. Let's call it pinoybutter. (pinoy means filipino) Pinoybutter is not bad. The better brands are made of only peanuts, cane sugar, and salt, and are authentic enough that you even have to mix the oil back in. There are some local ones you can buy too. There is no such thing as chunky, though, and they are all super sweet by american standards. I've gotten used to it a bit, but it's still a lot of extra sugar.
Since peanut butter is relatively easy to come by, at least in Pinoy form, it's been something I've been buying for myself for breakfast in the morning. I put it on bread and on the cheaper chinese apples that I eat with my cheaper australian oatmeal. In theory I'm supposed to supply my own breakfast food. However, my host family also likes peanut butter and when it sits on the shelf it tends to disappear rather quickly. This is alright since I often eat things like fried eggs that my host mom prepares for me without my asking for them, and they do buy their own peanut butter which I, of course, haven't felt guilty about eating. Anyhow I figured I might simplify things and I could just pay them some extra pesos and we would all just share the peanut butter.
I'm not sure it will work out any better, but I'll keep you posted. Because I'm sure you're dying to know!
posted by ben at 10:13 PM
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When we lived in Helsinki I needed a peanut butter fix, and after a great deal of searching found some high priced stuff in a specialty food shop. Turned out that it was made from what must have been unroasted peanuts. After spreading it on a cookie sheet and roasting it in an oven it was almost edible.
George Washington Carver would be impressed.
To mawg/friend of Ben's, the SAME thing happened to me in Helsinki, only I didn't think of trying to roast it.
and to Ben. should i send a jar of jam to go with the PB?
awesome that the pinoy butter is better than it's german counterpart. i'm not a huge fan, as it were--but i'm glad it's getting you by.
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