Peanut butter
Jim Thompson
By Jim Thompson
HCP columnist
Our local Publix (a popular grocery store chain here in the south) has stopped carrying Jif Chocolate Peanut Butter.
Fortunately, it is on Amazon, so I just ordered 12 jars.
I like peanut butter.
Back in the 1950s and '60s, peanut butter used to come in large, wide-mouthed jars, each holding three pounds.
My mother bought those every few weeks. Of course, there was no peanut butter pre-mixed with chocolate in those days. Nutella developed this in Europe using hazelnuts.
I first encountered this while living in Finland. At that time, it had not gotten here yet. I don’t like Nutella.
Back in the day (and still today), peanut butter is an excellent source of protein. Since we did not eat much red meat, except hamburger, it was a staple in our diet.
Speaking of hamburger, Laura came home with three pounds of hamburger the other day. It was only $30.
I especially liked Sunday evenings, when Mother, perhaps once per month, made pancakes for supper. I could eat two stacks of six each, about four inches in diameter. I would slather peanut butter between each one and drown the whole thing in home-harvested maple syrup. How I could eat so many, I have no idea. I couldn’t do that now.
Occasionally, I put some regular peanut butter out on the patio for the squirrels. I think they like it as much as I do.
Today, besides chocolate peanut butter, I like peanut butter pie, peanut butter ice cream and peanut butter cookies.
Speaking of peanut butter cookies, a couple of weeks ago, I got a nice big box of homemade cookies from a young man on Pondlick Road. (You know who you are.) It was a pleasant surprise.
Thank you. I think I will get a couple of those now.
Jim Thompson, formerly of Marshall, is a graduate of Hillsboro High School and the University of Cincinnati. He resides in Duluth, Ga. and is a columnist for The Highland County Press.