Times are changing

[samari46]

Wally world used to sell either a 6lb or 7lb can of JIF peanut butter. Now down to a 4 lb can. What's a guy to do when he can't get the big can any longer. Buy two 4lb cans that's what. Frank

[Winger Ed.]

Nah,,, get three of the 4 pounders.
It's like having a spare tire in the trunk--- Ya always need a back up.

[VariableRecall]

Wally world used to sell either a 6lb or 7lb can of JIF peanut butter. Now down to a 4 lb can. What's a guy to do when he can't get the big can any longer. Buy two 4lb cans that's what. Frank

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/bulk-smooth-peanut-butter-35-lb-tub/125PBCRMYBLK.html

Ya want the BIG can! This looks like a place to get one! Seems like you don't need to be a Resturant to purchase any products in their store either!
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I have NO idea what a single family could do with a 35 LB PAINT CAN OF PEANUT BUTTER, but once it's at your doorstep I'm certain you will find all sorts of uses for it.


Perhaps you can complement the order with six 8 lb cans of Jelly!
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/carriage-house-grape-jelly-10-can-case/12581604.html

[Three44s]

I did not know any restaurants served that many peanut butter sandwiches but I like that size bucket. What I could do with a number of those buckets in my Man Cave, hmmmmm?

Brass!

Three44s

[Gewehr-Guy]

I prefer the 28 and 40oz plastic jars, as they are perfect for storing cast and lubed bullets.

[MrWolf]

We go through a lot of peanut butter here. Not for us humans but for the dogs. They get their Kongs (toy) with some frozen peanut butter every night. My puppy gets benadryl mixed in with his. Found it is cheaper to get grocery brand large jars - think like 4lbs each.

[alfadan]

Ha! I get the small jars so I can scoop out the very, very last bit without get my hairy knuckles all peanutbuttery

[bedbugbilly]

Maybe you need to vote Carter back into office again? LOL At the time he was in office, both my wife were teaching school - in different districts. I remember that as soon as he got in, all o f a sudden the schools were overflowing with an abundance of peanut butter - there were peanut butter sandwiches, peanut butter cookies - peanut butter dessert bars - you name it - the cafeteria cooks couldn't use it up fast enough. Even peanuts in small paper cups began to appear on the cafeteria trays as they were receiving those in bulk as well. Of course the fact that Carter was from Georgia and Georgia is a big peanut state didn't have anything to do with it I'm sure. :-)

Nothing like a good PB & J sandwich, peanut butter cookies and one of my favorites when I was a kid was a peanut butter and sweet sliced onion sandwich - my wife thinks I'm nuts when I talk about the PB and onion sandwiches but they were goooooood! Just remember - a jar, a 4lb can or a 7lb can - doesn't matter - it all is goooooood!

[MUSTANG]

Maybe you need to vote Carter back into office again? LOL At the time he was in office, both my wife were teaching school - in different districts. I remember that as soon as he got in, all o f a sudden the schools were overflowing with an abundance of peanut butter - there were peanut butter sandwiches, peanut butter cookies - peanut butter dessert bars - you name it - the cafeteria cooks couldn't use it up fast enough. Even peanuts in small paper cups began to appear on the cafeteria trays as they were receiving those in bulk as well. Of course the fact that Carter was from Georgia and Georgia is a big peanut state didn't have anything to do with it I'm sure. :-)

Nothing like a good PB & J sandwich, peanut butter cookies and one of my favorites when I was a kid was a peanut butter and sweet sliced onion sandwich - my wife thinks I'm nuts when I talk about the PB and onion sandwiches but they were goooooood! Just remember - a jar, a 4lb can or a 7lb can - doesn't matter - it all is goooooood!

I remember in the Johnson Administration when the"Free Food" mania began; the school cafeterias where I grew up in Texas had bowls of Peanut Butter, Bread, Butter and Honey sitting out on the Tables. Theory seemed to be those who were Poor and Hungry could take it without being embarrassed because EVERYONE WAS TAKING FREE. The products came from the US Government - acquired from the "Food Commodity Price Support Legislation Farm Bills". (Better than dumping it in the Oceans which they had done before). As I remember those (except Bread) came in 1 Gallon Tin Cans. I worked lunch period cleaning tables and washing dishes in return for lunch most years in school - based on the family/religious philosophy we had that "Only the Needy" take handouts; and the cost of school cafeteria lunches was outside of the family budget (brown bag it or go hungry - or work for lunch).

Of course that changed over the decades where all 4 items above were listed as DANGEROUS due to food Allergies and Obesity. Perhaps they are coming back? Possibly at the State Sponsored Food Distribution Lines at some future date due to Covid19/21/22... as a means of dealing with the unemployed?

[rbuck351]

Only the needy take handouts. That was how I was raised and mom was not about to take any hand outs and be thought of as needy. What even happened to that idea.
I worked as a correctional officer my last 20 years in a female institution. One of night shift duties was to scan all outgoing mail. These women new more places for their significant others to sign up for govt giveaways than I new existed.

[tai95]

I did not know any restaurants served that many peanut butter sandwiches but I like that size bucket. What I could do with a number of those buckets in my Man Cave, hmmmmm?

Brass!

Three44s

In a previous life I ran a few restaurants. You would be shocked at how much peanut butter you can go through. The one restaurant was known for it's peanut butter pie. On an average Thanksgiving I used to make ~50 peanut butter pies. That bucket would last a couple of weeks tops at that rate.

Also a smear of peanut butter on a burger is pretty amazing.

[MUSTANG]

Never heard of a peanut butter pie. What's in it beside peanuts?

[tai95]

Never heard of a peanut butter pie. What's in it beside peanuts?

Graham cracker crust which gets coated in melted chocolate. Then the pie filling is whipped cream, peanut butter, cream cheese, sugar. Fill the pie crust and chill. When you serve it you drizzle some chocolate syrup over it add a scoop of ice cream and then the sugar rush kicks in.

[MUSTANG]

Ohhhh my gosh. That diet I went on for the last two weeks just got negated by thinking of that pie. Bet they are awesome tasting.

[tai95]

Ohhhh my gosh. That diet I went on for the last two weeks just got negated by thinking of that pie. Bet they are awesome tasting.

They are amazing. The one bright spot is they are so rich, that you can eat a small piece and be satisfied. Plus peanut butter is healthy. The rest isn't, but that doesn't matter.

[MUSTANG]

They are amazing. The one bright spot is they are so rich, that you can eat a small piece and be satisfied. Plus peanut butter is healthy. The rest isn't, but that doesn't matter.

My wife is a retired school teacher - anything peanut related was barred from school areas for years because someone might have an allergy.

[shtur]

you guys are all NUTS

[tai95]

My wife is a retired school teacher - anything peanut related was barred from school areas for years because someone might have an allergy.

I forget that a peanut is now a weapon of mass destruction on school grounds. I think everyone I went to school with went crazy over the peanut butter squares when they sold them at the cafeteria. Everyone also had a pb&j sandwich at least once a week packed in their lunch. 30 years later if people sniff a peanut they die. Weird.

It's kind of like how no one I went to school with had ADD, or ADHD. Then they started plastering a child abuse hotline everywhere, parents stop disciplining their kids, ritalin was invented and now 9 out of 10 kids have it. Again weird.

I'm not denying food allergies, but I just don't understand how a staple food for generations is now lethal to so many. GMO foods must not be working.

[MT Gianni]

Some of it is just being more well known. My BIL is fortunate he has made it to 58 with all of his allergies. If he walked into a restaurant frying with peanut oil he stopped breathing.

[fixit]

As the parent of an ADHD child that survived to adulthood, (he's in his mid 30s now) it drove me nuts, the armchair psychologists that we had to contend with. Ritalin, properly used is a good tool, but it was, and still continues to be over used.

[Pete44mag]

One of the side affects of Ritalin is homicidal tendencies. The drug started to see widespread use in the early eighties. When did school mass shootings start? Coincidence? My daughter was diagnosed with ADHD when she was 12 years old and prescribed Ritalin. After two months of severe behavioral changes my wife and I decided to take her off the meds and pursue a different course. She is now thirty years old and has a very successful and good life. As we found out later her teacher had more than 75% of the class taking drugs for emotional problems, was easier to control a class of emotional zombies than to deal with normal rambunctious children. Teacher was quietly fired several years later when she was found out. For a teacher to get fired in New Yorkistan with the teachers union almost takes an act of congress. To the parents of school aged children please don't always believe what teachers and doctors tell you get a second or third opinion.

[samari46]

MY SIL used to get commodities and got peanut butter as some of the stuff she used to get. That Gov't peanut butter had very little oil in it and that made it taste great. Used to toast 4 slices of bread and while still hot slap on some of the peanut butter. Way better than butter or margarine. Jif isn't as oily as some of the other brands. Also works great when you have anal leakage. Frank

[abunaitoo]

Peanut butter and grape jelly on toast.
Yummy!!!!!!!

[Three44s]

Best medicine for high strung people is to plop them down in a 40 acre patch of rocks and go to picking!

When they get their morning quota picked hand them a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Go back for the afternoon shift, pick that quota.

I call it getting real on a shoe string!

Three44s

[rbuck351]

My favorite is peanut butter and honey. You have to mix it before applying to the bread or you will have honey leaking from all sides.

[imashooter2]

I’m a Skippy guy. Jar ran dry a couple weeks back and needed replacement. Local markets had NO regular creamy Skippy at all. Everything on the shelf was reduced fat.

Now I don’t mind them offering reduced flavor peanut butter to the folks that value low fat over eating good food, but not a single jar of regular? Ridiculous!

[VariableRecall]

My favorite's Jif. Just the right amount of oil in it, and the Chunky version is PB perfection.

[Winger Ed.]

Ritalin, properly used is a good tool, but it was, and still continues to be over used.

Its mostly used for the parent's wellbeing, not the kid.

[1hole]

Wally world used to sell either a 6lb or 7lb can of JIF peanut butter. Now down to a 4 lb can. What's a guy to do when he can't get the big can any longer. Buy two 4lb cans that's what. Frank

Is giving customers smaller containers their solution to not raising the price per can?

[Winger Ed.]

Is giving customers smaller containers their solution to not raising the price per can?

That has happened with lots of stuff.

It might be my imagination, but it seems like candy bars have shrunk too.

[fixit]

Its mostly used for the parent's wellbeing, not the kid.

That's what I mean by properly used....too many people use it to drug the poor kids into a zombie like stupor. The most minimal dosage is just enough to clear their minds, not to drug them into submission. That's why I can't stand the armchair psychologists.

[David2011]

That has happened with lots of stuff.

It might be my imagination, but it seems like candy bars have shrunk too.

The candy companies have admitted for years (decades?) that they were reducing the size to maintain a price point.

[Texas by God]

Jif for me. Peanut butter, bacon and fried egg sandwich for breakfast will keep you going all the way till lunchtime. Peanut butter and a fried egg on pancakes, covered in syrup. Protein Profundo!
And a lifetime staple, peant butter and homemade Mustang grape or Indian plum jelly sandwiches!

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[jdfoxinc]

I grind my own.

[trapper9260]

I need to eat the 100% peanut butter , the one with the oil on top you need to mix in. I can not eat the regular one what they add in it makes me sick . Also will just eat the shell peanuts . One of my sisters said she could not eat the regular peanuts like Planters and told her about for how it is for me and what I eat she was to try it . One of my other sisters found out for me by grind some up to make peanut butter for me to try to see if I will get sick on it and did not then after that the rest is history . I did not see on the site for 100% peanut butter unless I miss it . that is the link to the one that was posted

[Pressman]

For me it's Skippy Super Chunk in the 40oz jar. I go through one jar a week. I was dismayed during the past two winters I was in Texas that finding any Skippy was hit and miss, then it would be the tiny jars. Plenty of JIFF along with a half dozen other brands, but NO Skippy.

Empty jars are great for storing brass and bullets and other stuff. With the number I accumulate I tried to share the empties with fellow board members, that is until I found out how much it costs to ship them. The lady at the Post Office is still teasing me about that experience. 10 empty jars in a box = $36.00 before the current price hike.

[samari46]

Years back we went to Amish country in Pennsylvania. Fried home made sausages, fried chicken. And watched them make home made peanut butter. So bought a couple large jars, took home the sausages and chicken. Got stuck in traffic. Opened the cooler and made a sausage sandwhich watching the traffic crawl along.. best darn peanut butter. And a couple loaves of home made bread. Never too old for some peanut butter. Frank

[Walks]

More then 50yrs ago, I was a bad boy and got sent to a Military School for a year.
Got KP duty immediately.
Sat & Sun the Good Kids got to go home for the weekend.
The cooks didn't work Sunday lunch, so it was PBJ's with either strawberry or grape jelly.
The PB came in 5gal buckets and the jelly in #10size jars that needed four hands to open.
We had special measures to make the sandwiches. On White sandwich bread.
To this day I haven't eaten grape anything and I'm allergic to strawberries.

I eat about one PBJ a year.
Fresh JIF creamy with KNOTT's Berry Farm Boysenberry Preserves on Good wheat bread.

[abunaitoo]

I like the creamy because it doesn't rip the bread.
Friends son is allergic.
Only one in the whole family, on both sides.
So no peanuts in the house anymore.
Did you know peanuts are not nuts????
They are legumes, like peas.
But friends son can eat peas.
Strange.

[tai95]

Years back we went to Amish country in Pennsylvania. Fried home made sausages, fried chicken. And watched them make home made peanut butter. So bought a couple large jars, took home the sausages and chicken. Got stuck in traffic. Opened the cooler and made a sausage sandwhich watching the traffic crawl along.. best darn peanut butter. And a couple loaves of home made bread. Never too old for some peanut butter. Frank

There is an Amish community a few miles from our campground. Everyone is always driving there to get the baked goods. We went with some of our friends as they were always raving about how amazing the food was. Within 2 minutes of getting there I saw about 15 health code violations, and decided I wasn't going to purchase anything. When my friends asked why i wasn't getting anything I just simply replied did you see the kid come from the outhouse to the stand? They nodded, and then I asked them where in the outhouse was the sink? They have never gone back.

Fresh cooked fried food I would try. Baked goods that were cooked who knows when I'll skip.

[shampine]

There is an Amish community a few miles from our campground. Everyone is always driving there to get the baked goods. We went with some of our friends as they were always raving about how amazing the food was. Within 2 minutes of getting there I saw about 15 health code violations, and decided I wasn't going to purchase anything. When my friends asked why i wasn't getting anything I just simply replied did you see the kid come from the outhouse to the stand? They nodded, and then I asked them where in the outhouse was the sink? They have never gone back.

Fresh cooked fried food I would try. Baked goods that were cooked who knows when I'll skip.

You made a wise choice . Outhouses are for taking a crap , the rest of the time you do your business in the garden . My wife worked on an amish farm , we do not frequent their stands any longer .

[MUSTANG]

You pays your money - you makes your choice.

The US Population is expanding - but principally based on Immigration (predominantly H1B, H2B, Illegal Aliens - Illegally entering the US and Illegal Aliens - Overstaying Visas).


Yet: Take a look at the graph of the Amish Population increase from 1901 to 2018- and it's not from the grandchildren of the Hippy Generation running out and converting.

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[farmbif]

ive eyed those tables full of amish goodies at the truck stops for years, after reading this I won't be looking no more, I'll be wondering if the kids working at mickyd's,
attached to the pilot station where the sweet treats are for sale, are amish

[Scrounge]

Is giving customers smaller containers their solution to not raising the price per can?

You nailed it.

[Scrounge]

That has happened with lots of stuff.

It might be my imagination, but it seems like candy bars have shrunk too.

It is not your imagination. Many things are now sold in smaller packages. Ice Cream used to be sold in pints, quarts, and gallon. Now it's pints, .75L, and the occasional gallon.

[tai95]

ive eyed those tables full of amish goodies at the truck stops for years, after reading this I won't be looking no more, I'll be wondering if the kids working at mickyd's,
attached to the pilot station where the sweet treats are for sale, are amish

Sorry for putting the thoughts into your head. Even if the kids selling them aren't Amish, with no electricity and running water how sanitary do you think the area the food was prepared in can be? I have been in and out of the restaurant business for the majority of my life, so I look a lot more critical than most do. My wife hates it when we go out to eat because I'll speak up if I see anything sub standard. Hell I even emailed Gordon Ramsey one time. I went with a group of friends to his steakhouse in the Paris casino in vegas and the lights were literally coated in cobwebs. I've watched his shows and seen him destroy people for less. I took pictures I should see if I can find them on my old phone and I could post it.

I don't go out of my way looking for things to bitch about, but if you give me a menu that's sticky, there are dust bunnies big enough to carry away a small child , or cobwebs that have there own zip code I'll mention something. Especially if there is a group of workers staring into their phones doing nothing. My management motto was if you have time to lean you have time to clean. If an establishment is ok with that kind of presentation in the front of the house you can only imagine how bad the food prep area the general public can't see could be.

[Winger Ed.]

I even emailed Gordon Ramsey one time.

There's news stories of his restaurants in Europe being shut down for multiple health & sanitation code violations.

[Digger]

More then 50yrs ago, I was a bad boy and got sent to a Military School for a year.
Got KP duty immediately.
Sat & Sun the Good Kids got to go home for the weekend.
The cooks didn't work Sunday lunch, so it was PBJ's with either strawberry or grape jelly.
The PB came in 5gal buckets and the jelly in #10size jars that needed four hands to open.
We had special measures to make the sandwiches. On White sandwich bread.
To this day I haven't eaten grape anything and I'm allergic to strawberries.

I eat about one PBJ a year.
Fresh JIF creamy with KNOTT's Berry Farm Boysenberry Preserves on Good wheat bread.

Wow ! , KNOTT's Berry Farm Boysenberry ...my absolute favorite to this day .
Is boysenberry available any more ?
Haven't found it on the store shelves.
When I was a kid , we went to Knott's Berry farm park and that was where I found my favorite for life ..Boysenberry Pie !
Those were the days when there was no fence around the park , walk in from any direction , fun place in those days.
Absolutely love Boysenberry pie !.

[blackthorn]

Quote" Sorry for putting the thoughts into your head. Even if the kids selling them aren't Amish, with no electricity and running water how sanitary do you think the area the food was prepared in can be?"

Well, I grew up to age 10 "off the grid" no power, no running water, outhouse etc. etc. We had a wash basin by the back door and in the kitchen. My Mother would have applied some "smarten up" techniques if I did not keep clean. Her kitchen (and house) was as spotless as she could make it. So I guess the answer to your question is (as in most things) "it depends"---