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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

What do you mean by "unsweetened peanutbutter"? There's sweetened peanutbutter? Is that some kraft foods shit?

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

In the US most brands peanut butters have added sugar. It looks like you might be in Canada and I wouldn't be surprised if the same is true there.

I think the dominant flavor is still salty, but it's been a long time since I've had Jif or Skippy.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 6 hours ago

Just check the ingredient list on the packaging, if they have it. At least here in the Netherlands, "normal" peanut butter contains more palm fat than peanut and it contains quite some sugar as well. I can taste the sugar and dislike it, but then I grew up with "100%" peanut butter, containing only peanuts and nothing else, so I may be used to something weird compared to my countrymen.

From what I've gathered, peanut butter in the USA contains a lot of sugar, too.

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Well, whenever I've talked about this in the past, there was always someone who asked "You put (sweet) peanut butter into your savory food?!".

Wikipedia also says that it commonly contains sweeteners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter

But yeah, not sure if that's maybe specifically a thing in the US. They do love to put sugar into everything and I just came across this article, which mentions that when PB&Js became popular in the US, sugar was still seen as good: https://www.thetakeout.com/why-americans-love-peanut-butter-best-vs-rest-of-world-1850648598/

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Interesting. When I've tried pb&j for the first time (during the aughts), I thought regular peanutbutter complemented ham (or marmalade) really well already. Maybe even better with some salt.

Mixing sweet with more sweet is a very kids thing to do.