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wanttobeatree

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Feb 22, 2011 23:42

A while back laulan and I got into quite a lengthy debate over where one must keep one's peanut butter, each thinking the other was being ridiculous, until we went and fetched our buttery jars and showed the storage instructions to each other via webcam and we discovered that YES, transatlantic differences extend even as far as peanut butter housing ( Read more... )

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13chapters February 22 2011, 23:47:42 UTC

I haven't got the faintest idea what the jar actually says, but anyone who doesn't store their peanut butter in the fridge is in danger of bacterial contamination.

wanttobeatree February 22 2011, 23:51:02 UTC

I wonder if there's some kind of difference in the peanut butters... 'cause here every single PB jar I have ever seen says to store in a cool, dry, non-fridge place and idthink the EU regulations would let that slide when everything else is so persnickety.

13chapters February 22 2011, 23:52:03 UTC

I used to eat Dutch PB when I lived in Bulgaria (it's totally part of the EU!!!!). I can't remember what the label said, though. I still stored it in the fridge.

wanttobeatree February 22 2011, 23:57:38 UTC

I got so curious I am on the Food Standards Agency website and according to the Food Labelling Regulations 1996 all food has to be labelled with any special storage conditions. If there is anything on the site specifically about peanut butter my search skills are not up to the job of finding it.

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wanttobeatree February 22 2011, 23:59:11 UTC

TRUE DAT. shudder. It probably goes all... hard and stuff, fridged.

elizardbits February 22 2011, 23:55:57 UTC

People who keep PB in the fridge are weirdos and are also wrong. So there.

wanttobeatree February 23 2011, 00:03:43 UTC

You tell laulan, Liz. YOU TELL HER.

elizardbits February 23 2011, 00:07:48 UTC

WELL MAYBE I WILL.

Srsly considering that most of the free world does not refrigerate fresh eggs, I think I will probably survive this deadly peanutty menace.

wanttobeatree February 23 2011, 00:16:13 UTC

The first time I heard of a person not storing their eggs in the fridge it was like the very foundations of sense and good reason and existence crumbled beneath my feet and indeed my dinky fridge-based egg holders.

zeitheist February 22 2011, 23:59:56 UTC

I was so weirded-out by the idea of storing peanut butter in the fridge, I had to Google. Apparently, peanut butter is going to kill me? Tree, why'd you gotta go and shake the foundations of my world like this :(

wanttobeatree February 23 2011, 00:01:17 UTC

WHY WOULD THE FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY DO THIS TO US /o\

zeitheist February 23 2011, 00:05:32 UTC

I think the greater question is WHY WOULD PEANUT BUTTER DO THIS TO US /o\? Is it because it has to share the cupboard with the jam? Was the fancy chocolate spread bullying it?

(Seriously, though, I don't wash fruit or vegetables before I eat them - I think getting ill from peanut butter is the least of my worries)

wanttobeatree February 23 2011, 00:13:24 UTC

I think my peanut butter hates me because I neglect it :( always I am reaching for the nutella first.

(The only veg I regularly remember to wash are spring onions because the little WASH ME label is right there on the elastic band. Everything else... a lot less regular with the washing. WE'RE ALL DOOMED)

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alwaysenduphere February 23 2011, 00:24:18 UTC

Cold peanut butter just sounds gross to me.