The '07 Peanut Butter Famine

from JoeUser Forums

Ireland had its potato famine. I believe that 2007 will be regarded as the year of the peanut butter famine.

We all know about the Peter Pan/Great Value fiasco. And we've all either dismissed it as bunk or blamed it for every sniffle of the young year. But now a look at the local WalMart shows shelves nearly bare of peanut butter.

When I walked in today, I had two choices: Skippy or Jif. Beings how I wasn't in the mindset to overpay for ANY peanut butter, I declined the choices offered. I mean, $2 for an 18 ounce jar of peanut butter is not a price I am currently willing to pay.

And so my children suffer the sins of a spendthrift father. Until the peanut butter supply is restocked (which in the Texas Panhandle, could take a LONG time), PB&J sandwiches are going to be few and far between. No longer can I buy my "tub o'mashed goobers" for under $9, because that was part of the batch. I will simply have to wait...and watch, until we can have peanut butter again.

 

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I, thankfully was unaffected.

There are few things that I'm picky enough about to buy a brand name. In fact . . . Spaghetti-o's are the only other one I can think of.

But choosy Choninos choose Jif. Extra-super-crunchy, so it's like three quarters whole peanuts with just enough "butter" to keep them from falling out of the sandwich.

MMMM. Peanut Butter.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Fortunately for us, my wife has been told to lose the PB (Cholesterol), so for the last 2 months, she has been making her own walnut butter.  So we are unaffected for now.  I hope the shortage eases before she goes off that diet as her PB&J consists of a smidge of jelly and bread with her PB!
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I hear ya Gid! I walked in the other day and the shelf was ridiculously, practically empty! Needless to say I settled for the Skippy! I gotta have my PB!