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Peanut Butter Anonymous Fri Aug 15 16:56:44 2014 No.5697363 [Reply] [Original]

I'm actually dumbfounded by this

After a bit of investigation and anonymous interviewing

I've come to a conclusion.

A good portion of people see peanut butter as sweet, and a good portion see it as more of a savory, nutty taste

But surprisingly enough, an even greater margin of people have trouble accurately pinpointing the taste

Not sweet, not savory or salty so to speak, more a sort of indescribable, unique taste.

Although, above all else, most if not all people agree that peanut butter is, in fact, excellent-tasting, which leads people to favor it without actualy discussing it.

One person may say, "i sure love peanut butter", enjoying it because of it's sweet flavor, and another person says "i agree with you, i love peanut butter too" because he enjoys the savory taste

The actual flavor of peanut butter is an anomaly, an uncomprehendable sensation

The agreement that it is, without a doubt, good-tasting, but if one were to discuss the flavor, the discussion would be fruitless, because nobody can truly agree on it.

Thoughts /ck/?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 16:59:02 2014 No.5697374 sugared PB is sweet, 100% PB is nutty

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 16:59:56 2014 No.5697376 >>5697363 >peanut butter >not a buttery nutty taste

>>	gravytrain Fri Aug 15 17:05:29 2014 No.5697390 >>5697363 It tastes nutty.

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Anonymous Fri Aug 15 17:08:02 2014 No.5697395

I never would have really considered PB as particularly sweet, especially considering it's usually paired with jelly which is sweeter. PB is about as sweet as much as chocolate is, which is pretty well rounded between savory and sweet also. Just accept it's medium everything.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 17:09:20 2014 No.5697397 >implying peanut butter isnt savory

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 17:10:21 2014 No.5697399 >>5697395 >PB is about as sweet as much as chocolate is nigger what how the fuck do you figure that

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 17:16:27 2014 No.5697410 >>5697399 I think he means dark chocolate, not sweet milk choco

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 17:18:20 2014 No.5697413 >>5697410 That makes sense I suppose but dark chocolate isn't really even that sweet, I'm even inclined to say it can be considered savory

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 17:29:43 2014 No.5697442 PB is delicious (unami)

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 17:36:32 2014 No.5697462 >>5697442 I think we can all agree on that

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 17:37:41 2014 No.5697464 >>5697397 does your peanut butter taste like fucking meat or something

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 17:55:57 2014 No.5697485 >>5697413 dark chocolate is bitter, natural pb is savory

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:16:05 2014 No.5697689 >>5697485 >natural peanut butter is savory really?

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Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:22:45 2014 No.5697697

>>5697363

The only people I've seen that have said peanut butter is sweet have been asians. My wife's extended family (Korean) have said that they don't like peanut butter and think it's almost too sweet when I've asked them before.

Never heard it from anyone else I can think of.

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Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:25:10 2014 No.5697704

>>5697363
It's just a fairly neutral flavor of peanuts that tends to have added sweeteners and salt (and other shit with bottom of the barrel). Tastes similar to other a few other nuts, and toasted grains. You can say the same thing for most produce. The tastes are unique and really only similar to related things.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:26:12 2014 No.5697706 >>5697697 >shit ton of sugar >why do people think it's sweet??? i just don't understand? lel

>>	ETHANOL Fri Aug 15 19:30:49 2014 No.5697717 it tastes nutty. it contains both sugar and salt that sort of balance each other out, but its sweet and salty.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:43:13 2014 No.5697742 >>5697717 >eating sugar added peanut butter what kind of third world shithole do you live in?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:50:34 2014 No.5697756 File: 35 KB, 419x298, peanuts duh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's slightly sweet, nutty. No matter what people think it tastes like, peanut butter is da best. PB is love, PB is life.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:52:15 2014 No.5697761 >>5697756 >ingredients: peanuts >may contain peanuts I should bloody well hope so

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Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:54:57 2014 No.5697765
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>>5697756
just saying that most people aren't buying peanut butter like that when they go to the grocery store.
so to think that it's bizarre that people would call peanut butter sweet, is just going full ruhtard

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:55:46 2014 No.5697767 >>5697363 Peanut butter tastes like shit, fuck you

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:57:04 2014 No.5697771 >>5697767 Alien detected

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:58:07 2014 No.5697776 File: 107 KB, 932x651, tumblr_m21yww7oAK1r2g7mto1_1280.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5697767 >he's allergic to one of the most delectable substances on earth

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Anonymous Fri Aug 15 19:59:07 2014 No.5697781
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>grocery store peanut butter section is substantial as fuck
>only two kinds that aren't swimming in added sugar and hydrosludge
>even the brands labeled "natural" have palm oil
At least there is Smuckers, which isn't too overpriced, but still - 2 viable options for peanut butter out of dozens and dozens of brands is absurd.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 20:06:54 2014 No.5697788 File: 1.58 MB, 250x220, 1408145702259.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5697781 >chunky

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 20:14:17 2014 No.5697796 File: 34 KB, 500x417, 1397405731708.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5697788 >pretending there is any other kind Morally reprehensible.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 15 20:21:25 2014 No.5697811 >>5697761 lol

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Anonymous Sat Aug 16 09:30:41 2014 No.5699152

OK let me break this down for you /ck/.

when people talk about sweet and savory they are talking about the taste receptors of their tongues which respond the most to those flavors.

There are two receptors at work when it comes to sweet and savory flavors anons... and those are the sweet receptors (obviously) and the salt receptors... savory actually starts at HALF sweet and half salt to full salt flavor.

NOW

knowing that.. a peanut generally has more than 4 times sodium per nut than sugar.

so for arguments sake that is:

minimum 4 salts

to

maximum 1 sugar

but in order for something to be considered sweet and not savory it would have to AT LEAST be

=1 salt

to

>1 sugar

and so ladies and gentlement... Peanut butter is inherently savory until you jam it full of bullshit that keeps it the same consistancy.. sweeten it for the Americans with sugar which also provides longer shelf life and put fake flavors and colours in it.

Fuck you corporate world! PB is just mushed peanuts!!!

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 09:32:45 2014 No.5699157 File: 139 KB, 319x480, 1362446578657.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >ctrl-f >umami >phrase not found

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 09:44:47 2014 No.5699177 File: 170 KB, 500x300, glasersfeld_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Perception of reality is subjective. Google constructivism. /thread.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 11:02:56 2014 No.5699301 >>5699157 >being a weaboo

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 11:05:01 2014 No.5699307 >>5697363 It's both sweet and savory Conundrum solved

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 11:07:55 2014 No.5699315 It tastes like mashed peanuts with salt and/or sugar added. So what?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 11:09:48 2014 No.5699318 >>5699301 I bet you think eating rice is weaboo too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 11:11:47 2014 No.5699323 >>5699318 No, but if you insist on calling it gohan when there's an english word for the same thing, then would be a weaboo.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 11:45:06 2014 No.5699387 File: 30 KB, 333x500, 41-wZuJ95cL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] the fuck condiment are you 18th century plebs on about? in my century we have advanced. please on my level.

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Anonymous Sat Aug 16 12:12:14 2014 No.5699428

>>5697363
I make my own peanut butter. I don't put salt or sugar in it. It tastes like roasted peanuts.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/savory

>having a pleasant taste or smell

>having a spicy or salty quality without being sweet

>morally good

So, "salty quality without being sweet" is savory. Meaning your "sweet and savory" peanut butter can't be savory. It is correctly, "sweet and salty".

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 12:13:15 2014 No.5699432 >>5699157 Salty isn't umami. Savory is salty without sweet. Unami is another flavor entirely.

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Anonymous Sat Aug 16 12:35:04 2014 No.5699501

>>5697363
>A good portion of people see peanut butter as sweet
And those people are buying the sugary bullshit for children and their ultra faggot "MOM, I WANT A PB&J CUZ IM FUCKING GAY!" selves.

>and a good portion see it as more of a savory, nutty taste
Because those people are buying at least 1/2 decent peanut butter.

> more a sort of indescribable, unique taste.
No. Just no.

No point in reading further.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 12:36:06 2014 No.5699504 >>5699387 Gross. Sounds SHIT.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 12:44:11 2014 No.5699519 get a job

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 13:49:38 2014 No.5699666 >>5699157 umami was predated by savory. Only hipsters and weeaboos use umami. Peanut butter is more complex, but I figure that the primary draw to peanut butter is neither sweetness, nor savory flavors....it's the oily aspect of it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 14:05:24 2014 No.5699693 I'm actually dumbfounded that niggers are still credited for inventing peanut butter and it is indoctrinated into the American education system.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 18:52:24 2014 No.5700420 >>5699432 >Savory is salty without sweet Nigga what Unami is the flavor signature also known as savory

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 16 18:54:22 2014 No.5700427 >>5699693 >>>/pol/

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Necromancer Sun Aug 17 06:42:20 2014 No.5702027

>>5697464

Bread is savoury, no? Most bread I've had didn't taste of meat. Come to think of it, I've never had bread that tasted of meat... I'm no expert, but are you sure that "taste like fucking meat or something" is the criteria for calling something savoury?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 17 06:44:30 2014 No.5702029 >>5697363 Got some cinnamon PB at the shop the other day, didn't realise it was seppo and sweetened to buggery. Kinda gross.