Merikins have slang words for pretty much every type of food you can think of but I have never heard a slang term for peanut butter. Is there one?
Not that I can think of off hand.
PB-- but only in the context of PB and jelly sandwiches
I love the stuff... for sandwiches, or for cooking with..
its makes pumpkin soup special, and i like it in an african style sause (with hot peppers)for --Ground Nut Stew
peanuts have lots of alternate names.. like goobers.. but peanut butter is just plain old peanut butter, (chunky is better than smooth, too, in case you are interested!)
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Lemmee translate from the Welsh: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww---WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH1
There is that more unnerstandable?
Yep, and it made the screen go wide, too. Thanks, Pfranz. I always love a challenge.
Dody dear, other than the aforementioned PB, I can't think of anything but don't lose hope -- there's a whole continent Up Over known for its slang that is yet to be explored.
well, though it's a brand name, we do occasionally call it "jif", even though we may be eating another brand.
and I think I prefer creamy...
and I think I prefer creamy...
gaaaarhhhhh! timeout.....
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no need to floss after...
MMMMMM-mmmm...definitely creamy--I don't like lumps; all that peanutty, slightly salty flavor just bursting all over your tongue...delicious! Just a big ol' spoonful of it, straight from the jar! And on a sandwich, with jelly (hi, Jo)...taste bud heaven! <EG>
one mere comment like this Mav, and i am going to turn this into a food thread.. Starting with Ground Nut Stew a chichen stew made with an assortment of vegetables, and a gravy made from peanut butter, garlic, hot peppers, ginger onions, red palm oil-for which you can substitute tomatoes and coconut milk, and lots of other goods stuff.. and i'll continue..
PB for peanut butter but only rarely.
I like the stuff. Creamy if with something else, chunky if alone.
Besides, it's fun to give a big spoonful to the dog!!!!
The sandwich referred to commonly as "PB&J" certainly abbreviates peanut butter with the first two letters.
peanut butter and honey is better.
(and don't forget sate sauce.)
PB and mayo. The onliest way to go. An it's gotta be crunchy. An unsalted. Yum.
sate sauce?
Oh, *that sate sauce
wow's got the bestest recipe.
poor mutt!
Crunchy or smooth, with raisins on whole wheat bread....MMMM
Or that combo on celery stick, hold the bread
Or toast the bread, hold the raisins
On vanilla ice cream or in a shake
With chocolate![drool]
Hush, Mav
Celery stick?! Eeewwww!!!
Bleah! Bleah! Bleah!
or on a slice of cherry pie with garlic sauce
or with a side-dish of rancid goat cheese and sprinkled with toenail clippings
or on raw liver with a cherry on top
I tell yah, the dog'll love it!
You okay, Faldo? *hehheh*
The debate at work last week was whether or not to put butter/marg on the bread before you add the PB.
Only the very young or those that need to add weight 'cause they're too skinny!
or the dog (like feeding geese, helps the muck slip down!)
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/newsletter/foiegras.htm
butter first, then the PB; PB and celery is great!; and it's also very good on apples...
It's one of those rare foods that are neither sweet nor savory so it goes with almost everything. I was shocked to discover an ex-boyfriend was right, peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches are actually tasty. and you thought PB and celery was weird!
Sate sauce belongs on sate, not bread.
Bingley
ELVIS PRESLEY'S FRIED PEANUT BUTTER AND BANANA SANDWICH
1 small ripe banana
2 slices white bread
3 tablespoons peanut butter
2 tablespoons butter
In a small bowl, mash the banana with the back of a spoon. Toast the bread lightly. Spread the peanut butter on one piece of toast and the mashed banana on the other. Fry the sandwich in melted butter until each side is golden brown. Cut diagonally and serve hot.
ah yes! how could I forget PB and bananas?! I don't fry mine, just slice a banana onto a slice of bread with PB on it. a favorite after school snack!
Be careful what you ask for...
[grrrr] ask a simple question [/grrrr]
if you insist
peanut butter and cheddar cheese on toast, under the grill until the cheese is all browny gold and bubbling
or
scotch bonnet chili, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, pak choi, chicken breast, fry in wok, add stock and noodles, boil for a minute and add a big dollop of peanut butter,mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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now that's what I call snacking
Could never bring myself to eat peanut butter, the thought of it what it must taste like makes my stomach go urrrgggghhh! Rather like a Big Mac. And I did try one of those once; the beef was OK, but everything else...urrrgggghhh!
Please don't think I'm having a dig at American food, we've got lots of urrrgggghhh! over here too...tripe, haggis, whelks, jellied eels, pickled eggs...so on.
Haggis!!??!! Urrrgggghhh!!??!!
When it comes to peanut butter, I come over all emetic and crapulent.
Thip! Sthip! Thip. Hey, gimme a beer to get this farking awful taste outta my mouth!
How about mole[mo-lay] then? Or tahini?
My daddy (Merkikan through and through) has always called peanut butter "teddy bear poop". Now if that isn't enough to gag ya, I don't know what is (ceptin' for haggis, of course).
It didn't stop me from enjoying my crunchy PB at any time either as a youngster or now. PB&J - actually, PB and strawberry jam- now that's a good Saturday lunch!
Thip! Sthip! Thip. Hey, gimme a beer to get this farking awful taste outta my mouth! i reckon we've found the root of the problem, dear... PB doesn't *go with beer. it goes with milk (yuck) or better yet grape soda.
and to keep this word-related, i'm not so sure that PB is really all that unique in not having a 'nickname'; i mean, do most foods? oranges? milk? bacon*?
*i'll thank those canadian and welsh not to launch into a diatribe about how 'merikins have no business calling our bacon 'bacon' in the first place
A glass of "cow bacteria".
Yes, guest, getting back to dody's first comments:
Merikinsthis word really is a no, no, but that is besides the point have slang words for pretty much every type of food you can think of but I have never heard a slang term for peanut butter. Is there one?
Do we USer's have slang words for every type of food? we often have many names for food, and names for different types of the same food. pone/mush/grits/kernels-- for different ways to eat/prepare corn maize, and we have lots of names for some foods (coffee comes to mind, with coffee, java, cup'a joe,etc)
When the english (in particular) first settled here, they found themselves confronted with new foods.. the soil and climate of NE (or Virginia, for that matter) is not well suited to growing wheat--it will grow, but not as it does in the champion regions of england..
and native foods grew so much better.. so they were confronted with trying to make 'old home style foods' with out the old ingredients. and corn maize, is so different than wheat, or barley, or any other old world grain--and it wasn't just corn that was new...
so many everyday foods that we don't give a second thought to, are from the americas.. the old world domesticated animals, but here in the americas, the first people domesticated plants..
sunflowers (seeds and oil)
pototoes
chocolate
pineapples
avacados
chili (and all sorts of peppers)
pumkins/cuccumbers (some melons did grow in old world, but most varieties eaten today are from america)
and of course, the topic of converation, peanuts!
which are really a legume, and with other american legumes/beans, are again, more of the commonly eaten varieties of beans today (old world beans, like flava beans, have less protein, and are harder for the human body to digest)
So people tried to make bread out of corn, (but since it has no gluten at all!) it doesn't 'bake up' like bread.. and corn breads got 'new names'--some are hobson jobson words, like 'journeycake' or pone, which come from indian names for flat cakes make from ground maize and fat. and some new foods, like peanut butter were made to help create an appatizing food from something (peanuts) that were generally used for animal fodder and feeding slaves (fitting then, that a former slave first made it, and promoted it)
but goodness knows, the country that gave us 'toad in a hole', 'spotted dick' and 'bubble and squeek', and hundreds of other weird names for foods should be commenting about USer's slang for food..
but i will agree, SOS(shit on a shingle) is one of the more interesting slang terms for food that we have
Merikins this word really is a no, no
No, no, it's Merkins that's a no-no (if you wish to cave to the puerality of the English school boy). What Ms skins said was Merikins
hey Mav, any chance you could cut that ewwwhh thang down a tad. it's making everything go all widey. which wasn't a huge problem until these last few essays...
puerality
Izzat a plurality of peurility, Fong, annifso have yah registertatified it yet?
In reply to:
(coffee comes to mind, with coffee, java, cup'a joe,etc)
And have you any idea how difficult it is to find anything about Java on the internet without having to wade through pages and pages of stuff about coffee and computers?
Bingley
>And have you any idea how difficult it is to find anything about Java on the internet without having to wade through pages and pages of stuff about coffee and computers?
It's not hard at all. Just go to Google's Advanced search page enter Java, and tell it to exclude the words computer and coffee from the search, and see what happens.
http://snurl.com/268n
Or, without going to the advanced search page, precede the terms you want to exclude with a minus sign (-) and the ones which must be in the results with a plus sign (+). So (like if you click sjm's link) for the search in question you type
Java Indonesia -coffee -computer
and this excludes coffee and computer pages, and saves having to use the Advanced Search page.
Handy tip, Bean. I didn't know that Google used "-" - I would have tried "NOT". Now, can you score bonus points by teaching me how to specify a date limit and language filters without going to the advanced search page?
but goodness knows, the country that gave us 'toad in a hole', 'spotted dick' and 'bubble and squeek', and hundreds of other weird names for foods should be commenting about USer's slang for food..
commenting, but not criticising
>but goodness knows, the country that gave us 'toad in a hole', 'spotted dick' and 'bubble and squeek', and hundreds of other weird names for foods should be commenting about USer's slang for food..
commenting, but not criticising
Pourquoi ist this post in reply to me? I'm a flatliner, and I still reply to the right post. Curious, is all.
Well, I tried a search of Java -coffee -computer, and this is what I got:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=java+-coffee+-computerEvery single link on the first page (except for one of the sponsored ones) was about Java computer programming.
Bingley
Did you try the Advanced Search page, as per my suggestion, Bingley?
I did with just the same results
Bingley
Bingley, did you actually visit the link I supplied in my first post? It was the result of a search I did that excluded coffee and computers.
But you added Indonesia to the search. Without that, you still end up with the programming stuff.
Bingley
Sorry, Bingley, you're right.