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GarandMarine:
You think that'd be relatively simple.

"So peanut butter, what do we put in it?"
"....peanuts sounds like it might be a vital ingredient"
"....hmm good eye there Johnson, what else?"

Method of Madness:
They do in the states, too, but you can get "natural" PB with just peanuts and maybe salt.

cesium133:
*looks at ingredient label on peanut butter jar*

So it does. Less than what the peanut butter I had in Brazil had (that stuff was noticeably sweet), but it does.

LTK:

--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 01 Feb 2014, 14:23 ---They do in the states, too, but you can get "natural" PB with just peanuts and maybe salt.

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I ended up getting just that; it was an expensive brand of organic peanut butter made of 99.3% peanuts, 0.7% salt. Now I just hope it tastes good.

The best peanut butter I know of is made with 85% peanuts, and 15% mixed vegetable oil/fat. The proportion isn't revealed but the majority is oil. Plus a pinch of salt. The addition of solid fat keeps it from shifting; the jar of natural PB I bought here already has a thin layer of oil floating on top of it.

Americans can get the superior PB here.

ZoeB:

--- Quote from: LTK on 31 Jan 2014, 08:04 ---
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 31 Jan 2014, 07:19 ---Netherlands - Karnemelk (buttermilk) in coffee.

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Karnemelk? In coffee?? Who? Where?
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Hengelo, Overijssel, in 1986 when I was working at HSA (Hollandse Signaal Apparaten)


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--- Quote from: ZoeB ---Boterhams - open sandwich,  buttered slice of bread sprinkled with schokolade hagelpuur (chocolate sprinkles)...
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Yes, of course.
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And no Vegemite available anywhere.


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--- Quote from: ZoeB ---...and eaten with knife and fork.
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Wait, what? Who eats their sandwiches with knife and fork? And how? Don't all the sprinkles fall off? I wanna know where you've been since it's clearly not where I'm from.
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Twente.


--- Quote from: LTK ---By the way, the words you used mean chocolate sprinkles, dark. (Chocoladehagel, puur.) Which is what the box would say for dark chocolate sprinkles.. Also, there's no s in chocolade.
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My Nederlands is rusty - I learnt German (Hochdeutsch) in school, then Twents in Hengelo, then to Bremen and back to an unholy mixture of Hannoverana, Plattdeutsch and Ostfriesisch... there are some serious dielect differences over just a hundred kilometers.

When I speak Deutsch, it's very formal, almost stilted schoolgirl Hochdeutsch, Hannoverana. Probably because I was born in Berkshire, UK, the heimat of the Mountbatten-Windsors. The local dielect was influenced by, and in turn influenced, Court German.
When I attempt to speak Nederlands, it's often mistaken for Vlaams due to the English background (hence some latinisation). When I try Platt, I mix Nederlands constructions in, as the Twents dielect of Nederlands is heavily influenced by Platt. Then again, my Francais sounds like Wallonaise from the English and Dutch in it.

So I might say "Een, Twee, Drei.. er, Dree" DOH. Having a superfluous 's' in is about standard. Schokolade, Chocolate, Chocolat, Chocolade... Dank U well, Danke Schoen, Thank you... Gesundheit, Gezondheid, Sundhed... oh wait, that's Dansk I think. Soundness (Health)

Another Dutch oddity : Kijkhuis. Nothing to do with Cakehouse.

Speaking of things comestible...

Rijstafel - ah, just like home! What the Germans do to Szechuan is a culinary atrocity, and their Nasi Goreng is unspeakable. I will pass over what they label "Curry" as something Man Was Not Meant To Know. As bad as Albert Heijn Huiswijn.

It took me ages to realise that "peanut butter and jelly" means "peanut butter and jam". Not jelly - what in the US would be Jello.

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