The '07 Peanut Butter Famine

Published on March 11, 2007 By Gideon MacLeish In Current Events

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.

Comments

SanChonino

on Mar 12, 2007

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.

Dr Guy

on Mar 12, 2007

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!

foreverserenity

on Mar 12, 2007

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!

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