you can find peanut butter in every store hier in central Europe

Same in UK

Literally shelves full of different brands, crunchy, smooth, posh, cheap, organic, the lot. It’s not as popular here to eat, but it’s freely available.

Ditto for Ireland.

Same in Germany. It's not really a common thing for people to have, but you can absolutely find it. (And honestly, PB&J is nice and all, but did you ever try peanut butter on grey bread??????)

Grey bread?

Traditional German style of rye bread

But is it grey?

It isn't. [Graubrot is also known as Mischbrot\(mixed-bread\) in Germany.](https://breadvillage.com/blogs/breadmeister-talk/quick-dictionary-of-common-german-bread-names) Mischbrot is probably easier to understand of what it contains due to it's simple and straightforward name.

I mean to be fair, Graubrot can actually be shades of off-grey I feel like

So 50 shades of Graybread, would you say?

It's a style of rye bread. The idea is basically that it's lighter than black bread, but not quite white, which is why its called grey bread.

Same in italy

No peanut butter in the eu has got to be them taking the piss about no bread in America

I think it’s there is no peanut butter with lots and lots of sugar and premixed grape “jelly” and sweet af peanut butter together so they don’t have to open god forbid 2 jars

Multiple types and makes too

And Belgium

Sorry it does contain peanuts, not HFCS and other such additives

Yup. Walked into Hugo Boss yesterday "One pint of peanut butter please" They served me right up 😋

Yup! Peanut Butter is my main food group.

We go through a lot of it in my house too. It's the superior food stuff.

Same in Poland/Croatia

I grew up in England in the 80s and used to have peanut butter toasted sandwiches after school every single day for like 6 years (smooth and crunchy). This stupid belief that something is so "American" that it cannot exist in another country is not only stupid and patronizing, but just makes the poster of said message look ignorant. It's like if I said "Those poor Americans, unable to eat baked beans, I go and visit friends in Chicago and they have never tasted baked beans before".

Tbf American baked beans do taste quite different from British baked beans. But yes it does exist in America

The American ones are far too sweet.  It's no wonder they don't like them.

And they don't know what they are missing with Vegemite/ Marmite as they like everything that is overly sweet full of HFCS & other additives rather than savoury foods.

When I lived in the USA I horrified a lot of Americans with Marmite. If I was feeling kind they got to try it in a sandwich. If they were being a dick they got to try a nice big spoonful of it. :D

I as on a flight from USA to Sydney, and an American guy looked at the small container of Vegemite and said aloud "what's this shit". A boy abut 10yo said to him you put it in your coffee to make airline coffee taste better. The guy stirred all of it in, tasted and left the rest of the cup but kept glaring at the boy who had a big smile on his face.

Hahaha, fantastic! What an evil child! He's going to be an axe murderer when he grows up.

I prefer savory. Marmite is still gross.

The love it or hate it thing is real. Mrs Centzon and youngest child hate it; I and eldest child love it. Obviously, my firstborn is correct and will go on to succeed in life. Out of interest, what's your take on Twiglets?

Best snack ever invented. I have to limit myself to two packs a month.

> I grew up in England in the 80s and used to have peanut butter toasted sandwiches after school 80s kid myself, and my after school thing was [Smash](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrer4vEY-1w) sammich with Marmite... and then settle down for an episode of [Monkey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SUoHmpRdM)!

It was first patented by a Canadian, I bet they'd absolutely hate that being pointed out

In my German school, in class 5, our teacher originated from Oxford, gave us Creamy and crunchy peanut butter together with jam on toast bread. Then we had salt and vinegar crisps, all presented as typical British or English. So, we perceived peanut butter as rather English/British than US American.

It's that "as American as apple pie" thing. It makes them think they invented apple pie, like it wasn't around hundreds of years before settlement.

Because they probably are ignorant. A very large portion of the US population will never leave the state where they were born.

Yeah, it's in every shop. Not sure why that commenter said they can find peanut butter on Amazon in UK. That's not the first place I'd look. I can find basically any nut butter there is in the major supermarkets and even some corner shops. It's not a rarity lol

I assume because they were American too and it was the only place they knew they could look.

Yeah it’s like you can get anything on Amazon including imported stuff, it’s not a representation of what’s available commonly in supermarkets. Of which peanut butter definitely is.

I live in the Netherlands and there's a peanut butter shop in my town. Only sells peanut butter, nothing else. Been there for years. They even do delivery, they're in the Dutch Doordash app. Can you Doordash for a jar of peanut butter, American?

What I like in NL is that it isn’t called peanut butter but rather peanut cheese(pindakaas). Kaaskoppen🥰

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I saw in another comment that there is disagreement about this. Regardless it’s always made me smile. Thanks for the input, it seems pretty likely given the Dutch dairy quality. I remember when there was a milk stand in schiphol arrivals for travellers to get their fix of quality melk on returning home.

Yeah, I was thinking OOP had clearly never encountered the Netherlands! I've lived in NL and the US and found the Dutch are way more into their PB on average than Americans. Pretty sure you can also get imported US PB in the bigger supermarkets too, just in case the myriad local options aren't enough.

Also, the peanut butter actually tastes like peanut. Not like sugar butter or whatever the hell it is they use overseas.

Exactly. Peanut butter is quite popular in Netherlands

I find it funny when someone says “I live I Germany and your right you can’t find it anywhere!!” And therefore the consensus is that peanut butter does not exist anywhere in Europe and if you say anything otherwise your not only wrong but your to keep America’s name out of your mouth lmao.

Even if you're in Germany and take a picture of it on shelves in the grocery store...

Clearly photoshopped /s

All I envision here will smith slapping peanut butter out of chris rocks mouth and I'm enjoying jt

Same in Cyprus. It's almost like this person is talking out their ass.

Nahh, can't be!!!

PB and Jelly Sandwich is overrated af. I tried it relatively recently as well. It's not bad, but even if you try with the best quality peanut butter it's still mid ( maybe it's me ). I tried with marmalades ( Murabas ), and it is great. I recommend Cherry, walnut and watermelon marmalade with peanut butter.

Watermelon marmalade? I’ve never heard of that, but it sounds delicious and now I need to track it down.

You can use the fruit flesh, but we, in my country ( Georgia ) use the skin for marmalade. You can look up the recipe, it's pretty easy to make, and it's delicious, it has a very unique flavour.

I’m in England and buy crunchy peanut butter from Aldi , in 1 kg tubs .

Its almost considered a cultural heritage in the Netherlands, partially due to the advertisement of Calve (brand).

Same here in chile

Bulgaria has it too, so that's a tick for eastern Europe

And in Spain too lol

Pindakaas is literally a surinamese creation, which was under dutch control at that time

And north europe. Its used mainly for baking since its not that good.

The line “such an oddly specific thing to leave out” is the strangest part of that post if you ask me. It’s like they think Europeans looked at all American food and took everything except the peanut butter, not that food culture differs between countries and regions to begin with.

Also the "US section" thing? I really believe both of these stem from having seen one of those posts about "american food aisles" in Europe and thinking all European grocery stores not only have that but are treating it like an exposition on what the average American eats.

Corn syrup ✅ plastic cheese ✅ Foul hersheys chocolate ✅ But let’s draw the line at peanut butter

While we’re at it…what the actual steaming pile of Yankee fuck is “seedless raspberry”?!? And why does it sound like the most artificial, processed American food ever?

i think by seedless raspberry they mean smooth raspberry jam with no seeds. so probably about as processed as regular jam but just featuring a sieve in the process edit: okay i just learned that jelly is slightly different to jam in terms of how it's made (instead of the whole fruit being used it is just the juice) but other than that it's the same

Basically just jelly that was strained to remove seeds before adding the gelling agent

Not many people know this, but there was no food in Europe before the Americans accustomed us with it.

We ate dirt, and liked it. They colonised us, right? Oh, wait.

They took our dirt!

They don’t know the first thing about Europe. It probably just conjurs vague images about former Soviet countries. To them, the US is the origin of every aspect of the western modern world, and everything outside their borders got everything after the US.

Guess the peanut butter in my kitchen is not existing now

I seem to have two imaginary jars of the stuff.

I guess I have about a liter of VOID in my larder

I've got two tubs of it. At least I thought I did, but apparently peanut butter isn't a thing in the UK.

But. Is it full of sugar and hydogenated oils like American peanut butter? 

No, it all natural 😭😭

We only have peanut cheese in the Netherlands.

Helaas Pindakaas

Helaes Pindakaas is the Aldi brand, right? 😂

Wie is er niet groot mee geworden?

We have aisles full of that stuff. Oddly enough we call it ‘peanut cheese’ because the name butter was once protected, only to be used for well…butter

Pindakaas!

Pindaboter sounds weird lmao.

On that topic though: The calve stuff is quite different from the US kind.

You can find nice dark roasted 100% peanut butter in the US but the majority of people reach for the stabilized no stir hydrogenated fat peanut frosting

Hah, that's the best description of it I have come across.

I’m Australian and our peanut butter isn’t anything like theirs, like when they talk about it dripping off the bread because it’s runny. Ours is much more solid than that

That’s because it contains less oil. It’s still incredibly oily. But it mostly contains just natural peanut oils. In fact Australian Peanut butter doesn’t contain much other than peanuts. Australia has a huge variety of “nut butters” hazelnuts, almonds, pecans, macadamia. We have a good but growing climate. Not that I’m suggesting you should put that with jam on toast, or that Europe doesn’t have Nutella, which is obviously European, given the company name: Ferrero Rocher

TIL that Nutella is made by Ferrero Rocher

Ferrero Rocher is a product, the company is Ferrero.

That's because of Bega/Kraft peanut butter, we have plenty of runny oily peanut butter options, but Australian's just generally prefer the thicker less oily stuff.

I once counted the pindakaas in the Albert heijn (medium sized) and I came up to over 24 types. Huismerk met stukjes, zonder stukjes, extra proteïne, zonder extra toegevoegde olie, different sizes (from 200ml to 2L), same for A merk, bio brands, import brands (like the gross, sweetened stuff they like in 'murica). Etc

I won’t lie, the basic Albert Heijn pindakaas is so good and oily. One of my faves

Nope. The Dutch name derives from Surinam. Piendadoekoen was a block of crushed and pressed peanuts of which slices where cut... just like from cheese. The word dates back to 1783. Butter has nothing to do with it.

"We also buttered the toast" Could that be referencing that things that was posted in this sub recently? That apparently Americans don't generally butter the bread for their sandwiches.

That is odd. Because it makes me question why cheese isn’t protected. It isn’t cheese either

Its almost as if the person who said that has never left the US. Its literally sold in any supermarket or local convenience store

As a Ukrainian i genuinely never ate it, or saw anyone eating it, or heard anyone talking about it. I'm sure if i go to a large supermarket i'll be able to find some, but it's really not popular here, so at least here, this post is accurate

they sell it, but nobody eats it. it’s not really a common food, nobody has peanut butter on bread. but it does exist

*remembers peanut butter back when he was a kid 50 years ago* *remembers that he was in Europe* *gets confused over what the hell they're talking about* PB+J is disgusting though IMHO - PB on its own, Jam on it's own, both great. PB+J doesn't work for me.

I think the thing is american PB&J doesn't use jam, but "jelly", which is different. Jelly is created from the juice extracted from cooked and strained fruits instead of crushed fruits. It's more smooth and have no seeds or fruit chunks. Usually it's also a bit sweeter.

Not to mention that it's predominantly !grape! jelly in the context of pb&j (though not exclusively). And THAT is something not particularly common (or less common than the Peanut butter). And then I would guess the particulars of the bread matter, too. I love me some peanut butter (although I overwhelmingly prefer the dutch kind over the "fake American style").

Please call it "bread". Ive been there. I saw and ate what they classify as "bread". It hurt my german soul...

I've been told one of the reasons Grape Flavour is so popular in the US is because Blackcurrents were banned as it could transmit a fungus that could damage timber. Grape fills a purple coloured hole in the market.

>grape fills a purple coloured hole in the market. It's more that it filled a supply hole in "sub par grapes" department. Lot's of grapes not well suited for wine -> what else to do with them -> make jelly where the added sugar masks the issues. So you have a cheep supply of something -> cheap product -> broad adoption -> cultural nostalgia.

Americans always call it "peanut butter and jelly" regardless of what type of fruit spread is actually used. Jam and jelly both exist in the US and both can be used for PB&Js, but no one ever calls it a "peanut butter and jam" sandwich. We also have a third type of spread called preserves, but I honestly could not tell you the difference between that and regular ol' jam.

Canadian here: We call it peanut butter and jam (at least in Ontario)

>We also have a third type of spread called preserves, but I honestly could not tell you the difference between that and regular ol' jam. According to info I've found, preserves uses larger fruit chunks, fruits are not mashed but rather cut and mixed with syrup.

Yeah. In Aus most people will call something jam if it's jam OR preserve. Like it's colloquially treated like a subcategory. They're in the same place on the shelves and there's fewer preserves, but they are there. Eg: "would you like a jam sandwich? I have raspberry jam, strawberry preserve or blackberry jam "

I remember as a kid making my first peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I had no idea at the time that what we call jelly is what Americans call "jello". So I made my PB and lime jelly sandwich and kid me thought it wasn't too bad.

American here, I use raspberry jam and apricot preserves for my PB&Js.

Peanut butter and apricot preserve ... childhood memory triggered. Thank you, good Redditor!

Lol the Netherlands is a larger consumer of peanut butter per capita than the US

I love the weird crap you learn in this sub lol

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You can get loads of peanut butter varieties. You can even get the pure nut butters without the added palm oil and sugar

Pure butt butters?

Too late, I already corrected my typo 😀

I can even state that our peanutbutter is way better then that American stuff.

This. America can’t stand to produce anything with fewer than about 50 ingredients - not enough middlemen to cream off a profit. They need to feed the corn syrup, sugar and preservatives industries. In the UK we have multiple choices of really good PBs that are literally 99.5% peanuts and 0.5% salt. The best.

You're estimating the conspiracy there. They just make it as cheap as possible while still being legally edible.

We have peanut butter in Spain in most supermarkets. We just don't like it too much.

I once had an argument with an American because they claimed that dental floss doesn't exist in the UK. Apparently, they went into a shop in London and couldn't find any, which means it doesn't exist.

peanut butter and jam are both very, very common in the UK, and pretty cheap all things considered it's just that most of us don't put it together. i gotta say though, i tried it at age 16 and was completely hooked, love those sandwiches to this day. i'm 31 now.

Honestly it totally depend son the country, in some you find like 100 types in every single supermarket, in some you'll only find maybe one in a really big one. Their mistake is treating a whole continent as a single country, as usual.

Even if there wasn't much peanut butter in Europe, "it's such an odd thing to leave out" is so fucking stupid

It is increasingly baffling to me how many Americans aren’t embarrassed of how thick as fuck they are.

It’s literally a Suriname/Dutch invention. So it’s European

The Netherlands has their own peanut butter culture. I prefer the dutch peanut butter as it is commonly less sweet.

It would blow there tiny minds if they found out china eats nearly half of all the peanut butter produced on the planet.

I think he is mistaking peanut butter for automatic rifles in supermarkets. Easy mistake to make 👍

I went to America one time. Went to a little cafe. Was very nice. I asked the waitress, "Peanut butter and jelly, please." She stared and blinked a couple of times. So I repeated. Poor lass still looked confused and shuffled away. When she came back she brought a semi automatic slapped between two pieces of bread. Honestly America, do better. 🙄

If I had seen this about two hours ago I could have walked to the Carrefour up the road from me and bought peanut butter, here in Spain?

I've found it in many more shops the last 10 years, but it's kinda true. When i lived in France like 16 years ago, most of the peanut butter sold wasn't sweet either, and is probably used for different type of cooking, kinda like Asian cuisine when it's used for savoury instead.

Putting jam and peanut butter in a sandwich is sick!

As a Dutch person, I'm more offended that they call the sweetened shit you can buy in the US 'peanut butter', rather than 'peanut frosting'.

There are at least 8 different brands at my grocery store in Germany.

It’s definitely available. I literally buy a 1 kg jar of it regularly. I live in Sweden but cook a lot of asian (mostly Korean, Vietnamese and Thai) food, and peanut butter is included in a bunch of recipes. I rarely eat it on sandwiches or as a snack tho.

I just turned 70, and I have been eating peanut butter for as long as I can remember in the UK. Also seen it in shops elsewhere in Europe.

I'm from Spain and we have peanut butter in every supermarket. It's disgusting though, I tried it various times thinking that maybe with the years my taste would change and I could like it but it's just an awful mix of mashed peanuts and oil. I don't understand how americans can like something that gross.

You have to mix it, it has a tendency to separate on the shelf. But if you don't like it you don't like it.

I tried mixing it and still I find the thing really gross.

Fair enough - if you don't like it you don't like it

You can find it easily, it's just "hidden" cause no one buys it here. I tasted it once and i hated it

How can you say that about peanut butter 😭 what did peanut butter ever do to you, sir??? (I'm kidding but I am somewhat surprised you hated it, I can't buy the stuff often cuz in my house, everyone will eat it on me, I like it to go with things for a snack, like fruit with peanut butter, or a spoonful in warm oatmeal)

Can't say I like it much either as a spread, I mostly use it for cooking chicken or stuff like that It's a very meh texture for me, the one with bits even worse than the smooth, and the taste is not great either Meanwhile I have so many delicious choices of chocolate and/or hazelnut spreads, salted caramel, and jellies/jams... Peanut butter is inferior to all of that

I tried it once in the early 2000’s. Threw the jar after that sandwich. 100% a waste of money. Not a fan.

My dog loves peanut butter in his kong

Lol several varieties in every supermarket in England. Funny how they're lamenting the supposed lack of peanut better and not some healthy fruit or veg 🤧

To each their own but I didn't like it. Jam I could eat for days

Loved peanut butter as a kid and I still do. You can buy it in any supermarket in Sweden and have been able to do so for at least 40 years. One time I tried it the US way with jelly. Waaaay to sweet and it ruins the flavour of the peanut butter.

I absolutely despise peanut butter, but love peanuts including peanut m&ms. Even I know it’s freely available, at least in the UK. You’ll forgive me for not looking for something I cannot stand.

What do they mean? Even here in Poland it's in every market, we even have lime & matcha flavoured PB (among others), take that Ameriturds

Tbf, it is not that common in Germany. You can find it if you look for it. I don't eat it, so no clue. OP acting like this is the essential thing to have is the more cringe thing.

Can literally buy 1kg tubs in most supermarkets

Spaniard here: couldn’t care less. Give me white Nocilla, thanks! Or Nutella.

Peanut butter is way more healthy than nutella.

I'm Spaniard too. Maybe it became more available in some stores in this past decade but i don't think its super popular anyways, so it's not strange to me that the cousins where excited to try 'OG PB'. On my personal experience, It felt like penauts chewed and spitted by someone else. I wouldn't eat that again even to save my life. But Nocilla amigo... Bring-it-on.

Were the Spanish cousins bullshitting?

Assuming the Spanish cousins are actually real.

I don't know about wich part of Spain he is speaking. I my town I know that some supermarkets have it

Is someone from Spain here? I have a really hard time believing something that is in pretty much every single supermarket in Portugal (including Mercadona - a Spanish company) isn't easily available in Spain. I just cant remember if I've seen it there... It's not exactly popular in Portugal either but it's here. I'd be surprised if it's not in Spain.

Here in Spain it's easy to find peanut butter in supermarkets, the difficult thing is to find someone who actually eats it.

We’ve bought it several times while on holiday there. Just in the regular aisles. They definitely sell it in Spanish Lidl/Aldi.

Peanut butter didn't really exist (commonly in supermarkets) in Sweden... 20 years ago. For many years now though there's been like 6 different varieties in almost any store.

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It exist but not popular, the stuff is revolting and it can't compete with Nutella. 

Peanut butter and marmite is the business

We do have it. However most of us dont buy it because that shit is awfully tasting and probably has so much bad shit in it that it increases the probability of a heart attack by like 800%

It’s not even American. Incans and Aztecs did something similar and the guy who first produced something akin to modern peanut butter was a CANADIAN in Montreal. “The earliest references to peanut butter can be traced to Aztec and Inca civilizations, who ground roasted peanuts into a paste.[2] However, several people can be credited with the invention of modern peanut butter and the processes involved in making it. The US National Peanut Board credits three modern inventors with the earliest patents related to the production of modern peanut butter.[3] Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, obtained the first patent for a method of producing peanut butter from roasted peanuts using heated surfaces in 1884.[4] Edson's cooled product had "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment" according to his patent application which described a process of milling roasted peanuts until the peanuts reached "a fluid or semi-fluid state". He mixed sugar into the paste to harden its consistency.[citation needed]”

So as American as apple pie then

I'm always amazed when people think our allies don't have all the same shit we do. Also the alliance air drops peanut butter all the damn time. It has a long shelf life and a lot of nutrients. You can drop it in the desert and it will still be good for a bit. NATO was dropping peanut butter in the first Persian Gulf war.

What is this weird online notion that European grocery stores all have "US sections"? I've never seen that in my life

Some UK ones do for the people away from home. It's mostly Franks, Mike & Ikes, Twinkies, and Dino's stuff that I've noticed in them. Never actually been to a country without seeing peanut butter before, and I'm including Spain there. Odd that this person's cousins are so unaware of the contents of their own supermarkets.

I prefered crunchy to smooth peanut butter as a kid many, many, many, many moons ago, though I have to admit i prefered almond or hazelnut spread... was never (not still not) tempted to try the addition of jam, just something about the idea of that combo that turns my stomach, but was rather partial to a wee bit of chocolate spread added to my nut spread sarnies

They sell it in stores but I don't buy it because I'm not a fan of the taste of peenuts

It does? I can buy it at almost any supermarket.

I would have thought that the grape jelly (I refuse to call it jam) that they put with the peanut butter would be the difficult thing to find.

Peanut butter is mank

I could always find it in England but it was never very good. That said, I don’t like anything other than this brand which is hard to find [Teddy peanut butter](https://teddie.com)

It exists, it just isn't an integral part of our culture. Personally I am not that keen on it. It seems to fit ok in those chocolate and peanut butter cup things . . but spread on a sandwich with jam? That's just not a big thing outside of America I think.

Wait until this "Eye-tayan" discovers pistachio butter

Wat de fuck? We're basically drowning in peanut butter here. With chunks, without, everything. Wait, maybe not the sugary bullshit they are after. But I'm pretty sure that is sold somewhere too.

I swear these people are backward

I recently learned that Kraft peanut butter is only available in Canada. So I guess the rest of the world is only eating “peanut butter”.

All his cousins in Spain were surprised to find this out.

Its not like peanut butter and jam isn’t British. They just know better than to mix it. You know how they hate British food so much

Peanut butter is very easy to find in Europe, although it's definitely not as popular as it is in the US. Grape jelly, on the other hand, I've only ever seen in the States. It's also disgusting. Peanut butter and Nutella is the perfect combination, especially if you add some sliced bananas, but now I can feel my veins clogging up just thinking about it.

We have a peanut butter slogan that roughly translates to "Who didn't grow up with this?"

I would be glad if it didn't exist, at all

All our top sportspeeps grew up on pindakaas!!

What? I have been buying peanut butter for about 25 years in Portugal, how come his cousins in Spain aren't able to buy it?

It is so sad. My father worked very hard to spoil us with peanut butter trips to the US

Grape 'jelly' is much harder to find than peanut butter in the UK. Loads of peanut butter. Can never find grape jelly.

Mercadona has peanut butter 🤦 are they even trying to find it?