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There are virtually infinite things to shit on us Americans for, and most of them deservedly so. But this one ain't it.
Give me peanut butter and chocolate or give me death.
I'm pretty sure it is ragebait written by an American. Non-Americans don't really care about this at all.
Isn't that the same? If you're eating peanut butter and chocolate together frequently, you're probably not long for this world...
and banana!
I was going to comment exactly this, except I'm not American
Whoever wrote this is wrong and they know it.
The same idiots that say this are the ones who think Nutella is some transcendental ambrosia even though it's more palm oil than either hazelnuts or cocoa.
Nutella mixed with the cheapest American peanut butter is heaven. Thank you globalisation.
Sometimes the greatest sins can become part of our most beloved miracles
Thank you. People love it or hate it but don’t seem to understand it’s just bland palm oil. I want to like it. I’m their core demographic in many ways but there’s not enough flavor to like or dislike, and why would I eat palm oil?
I laugh my ass off when every few years someone combines peanuts and jelly on the Great British Bake-off and literally every single time all the other British people are like “wow, you have invented literally a brand new innovative and delicious cuisine”.
There was an episode I remember where they explored Mexican cuisine and a contestant said 'Gacky-molo' for 'Guacamole' and that has stuck with me since.
I thought I knew what a bad taco was before that episode. They proved me wrong.
This and avoiding taxes are the reasons why your tea is in the harbor
Mostly the taxes thing, but this didn't help
I don't like this food.
Ok, there's lots of stuff I don't like. Why not grab a Snickers?
It's an abomination!
Whoa there, it's just a Reese's cup...
phillistine depravity!!
Look, that's excessive, isn't it? And there's only one L in phi-
AMERICA BAD!!!!
Calm down, psycho! Holy shit touch grass!
Abysmal take. Chocolate ice cream with frozen peanut butter swirled in is proof that god loves us.
as Katt Williams would say: god made that
To whom it may concern:
Please be advised that your meme will be slathered with creamy peanut butter and drizzled with melted chocolate. Afterwards, you may immediately go and pound sand.
Should you decide to spread this misinformation further, we will be forced to place a bounty on you. When you are captured, you will be taken to Hershey Park and doused with Hershey’s chocolate syrup in front of many peanut butter & chocolate lovers.
For good measure, the public will be armed with crunchy peanut butter balls dipped in milk chocolate if you attempt to escape (dark chocolate covered peanut butter balls sold separately).
Sincerely,
The American Committee for Chocolate & Peanut Butter Advancement
and
The Reese’s Foundation
Barbarism! Coating the villain in Hershey's. You are an animal, not fit to live among civilized men!
Maybe some dark chocolate?
Dark chocolate sold separately, my friend.
Tar and feather then, but use chocolate sauce and roasted peanuts!
Woah Woah Woah. I'm Canadian and peanut butter and chocolate is also a thing here. Peanut butter may be my favourite thing. Why am I catching strays?
Deep-fried Reese's cups. You know you want it. You want to dip them in strawberry jam, and top them with whipped cream, and a chocolate sauce drizzle. It's okay, we won't judge you.
You also want chocolate-coated grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with mint chocolate-chip ice cream. Just... try it. We won't watch. Just the one time.
I’ve genuinely never understood how people can stand chocolate and fruit together. Or fruit and coffee for that matter. Chocolate and coffee taste kinda similar to me though so those mix well..
But fruit with either is just super nasty to me.
All that said, the best chocolate I’ve ever had was some imported thing that tasted vaguely of raspberry, but wasn’t actually supposed to. It was just chocolate that got stored with other candies.
If chocolate and coffee taste similar to you, I can see why you wouldn’t like it with fruit!
I like chocolate with my fruit (berries, apple even) but I don’t care for fruit in my chocolate bars, funny enough.
Peanut and choc you said?
Counter point - Justin's dark chocolate peanut butter cups 🤤
When I was a kid, my family went to go visit some extended family in rural southern France. It was going to be over Halloween, and since the French don’t celebrate it, we brought some American Halloween candy for them to try. To our surprise, they loved it, especially the Reese’s cups. We had expected them to find it gross, since they had much higher quality chocolate in Europe.
A bar of Hershey's, you can really taste the butyric acid that forms during their unique process. In a Reece's cup, the high sugar content of the filling (it's not really even peanut butter) overpowers it. I actually like Reece's but Hershey's is a last resort chocolate.
I just ate some choco coated peanuts. Here, have a choco peanut cookie.
I'll assume this is a very European take, and point out that Europeans don't even ever eat peanuts or peanut butter anyways as it was written off as colonist fodder unfit for their 'queenly' pallette. They also don't like corn, which has the juice, so like yea man we know their tastes are stuck in like the 18th century. Go on darling, have your fermented herring and duck pate 😬 we'll continue actually using the spices and flavors from the new world
Europeans don't eat peanuts? Or chocolate?
Why not have both? I've lived in the western US my entire life, but I think pickled herring is delicious, and I made rillettes (which is like a pate) just the other day.
Eastern US checking in. Three cheers for pickled herring! Can't get enough!
Yeah but... Reese peanut butter cups 😍
Idk how other countries do peanut butter, but ours is usually sweetened. Goes great with candy, dessert, acai bowls, milkshakes, pancakes, crepes, etc. etc
Then there’s the Elvis Presley burger… Though I haven’t tried it so I won’t knock it😆
A gazillion years ago I was in a shop that had an american aisle, so I bought some some american chocolate that had peanut butter in it. Reese's, I think?
Anyways it tasted slightly like chalky chocolate vomit with peanut butter on it.
I thought I'd got a bad batch so the next time I saw some I got something from Hershey's. Again, chocolate vomit.
Never had any of that shit since.
Cadbury's in the UK have been adding extra things to their chocolate bars for years now. My cynical brain tells me it's to mask the fact that they've changed things and lowered the quality of their products.
When did this happen? A few years after it was sold to Kraft, an american 'food' company...
The common explanation is that Hershey's chocolate contains some amount of butyric acid which tastes/smells like vomit. Adam Ragusea on YT did a pretty solid video on it.
Why Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)
Not all US chocolate tastes like Hershey.
American regular grocery store brands of chocolate are horrible. Hershey’s and all the rest. Of course it’s the cheapest ingredients drowned in sugar to cover the otherwise poor taste. Cadbury’s now tastes waxy to me. Used to be pretty good. All in the name of profit.
Aldi in the US actually has really decent chocolate, their Choceur label for milk chocolate is quite good. Good luck finding it, I think the tariffs killed the availability, haven’t seen any for weeks.
I thik a lot of the US stuff are things you have to grow with. If you taste them once you're an adult, you see them for what they are and they'll never work for you. Hershey and Oreo being the obvious examples for me.
Hersheys has always been horrible but we never had any choices when I was growing up. I’ve had a huge variety of tastes though, from bad to horrible: I can only assume one of the many problems is either lack of environmental controls or keeping it way too long. We have much better options now and I haven’t voluntarily had Hersheys in a couple decades.
However I object to Your criticism of Reese’s. It’s fair to say it’s not quality chocolate, fair to say the filling isn’t really peanut butter, fair to say it’s ungodly sweet, but chalky? Yes, I love it: why?
I don't want to upvote anyone and want to downvote everyone.
Peanut butter is an abomination and against the scriptures and an insult to God. Change my atheist mind.
I dunno about that, but I do know Reeses cups taste bad. Too much sweet and salty.
Chocolate and jelly sandwiches are much better than peanut butter and jelly sandwiches though. Fight me.
I do partake but it's not for the faint of heart.
Explain... what chocolate is spread on bread? Or do you simply mean hard chocolate sandwiched in the middle?
Chocolate spread, like Nutella.
It is basically fruit and chocolate taste, with tons of sugar.
I think we think it goes together because of Reese's. Like we see it as some classic combo. Ill say I've tried the combo several other ways and it really only works when the peanut butter is extremely, extremely sweet.
Pineapple on pizza
Ham and pineapple complement one another with saltiness and sweetness. One amplifies the flavor of the other.
If you put canadian bacon next to the pineapple, its delicious. Also, really important to have pineapple that's not super fibrious in a mixed dish.
L + ratio
It's okay. I prefer dark chocolate with peanut butter rather than milk, but Reese's gonna reese.
Or even better:
Yes, though they aren't usually available at the concession booth in that format. Trader Joe's has a nice basket of DC cups.
This is truly a shitpost. That man is wrong and should feel bad for ever having uttered that nonsense.
That's typically Dutch though
I'm a peanut hater so peanut anything with anything is a no no
Chocolate bars are just slabs of fat with some drugs in em.
Oh, FUCK THAT. World War III it is.
Real. Peanut butter in general is so ass. Basically every other nut butter is superior yet Americans love to shove that gross, musty shite into everything.
This is so undeniably, objectively true.
Peanuts end up in everything because they're very cheap, not because they're that good.
Peanut butter is ... fine. That's all you can honestly say. PB&J is edible at it's best, and then only rarely. Reese's is a testament to how easy it is to sell coagulated sugar and salt. Bougie peanut butter cups are just polished turds.
Thai is the only cuisine that knows what to do with peanuts.
undeniably, objectively true
proceeds to provide personal opinion
Sometimes I put peanuts on top of my peanut butter toast.
You sir are worse than hitler.
Get out.
Reece's is NOT peanut butter. Not even the same flavor profile.
they hated jeebus
It ok, I forgive them, they know not what they do.
I'm not American, but here's what I know about them.
They'll put chocolate on everything, ranch with everything, deep fry everything (but jot at home bc they can't cook), put coffee in their melted icecream
I'm willing to give you 1 out of 3. No we do not put chocolate on everything. No we do not put ranch on everything, but some unhealthy individuals put it on every vegetable. Yes we deep fry everything and goddamn does it taste good.
As with most stereotypes the amount people eat like you describe is overstated for humourous effect, as is often the case it's a question of how frequently one over indulges. Eating at a buffet occasionally is delicious. Eating at a buffet regularly is bad.
Yeah no I was joking too. Obviously just making a vast sweeping statement for humourus effect.
Damn Americans can’t live without their affogato /s
I forgot about affogotos 😭
I just meant the 1000 calories coffee drinks
You can totally deep fry at home with a Fry Daddy. My experience is that no food is worse deep fried and some foods are substantially better. Saltines? Not worse. Bacon? A bit better.
Hang on a minute, baby, someone is wrong on the internet.
Same types of people think pineapple don’t belong on pizza. Fucked in the head is what I call em.