The Peanut Butter Conundrum
When I get a chance to fix myself something to eat, I prefer a good old peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I don't have a place to cook here (in my room) so it has to be simple and now that I have a wonderful Tupperware Bread keeper from Mrs. Carpenter and lots of Sugar free jelly from Barbara, Mrs. Peterson and my parents I see no reason not to indulge my old college life of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The peanut butter here is very different though. I suspect it is like peanut butter before the super processed items available in the US today. See a jar of peanut butter here comes with about a 1/2 inch layer of oil at the top. That oil is important because the rest of it is just crushed or ground peanuts. Without the oil it is a dry clump that you can't spread on the bread. It is so important that I actually keep sunflower oil in my room now for when I get to the last 1/3 of the jar and the oil is gone and the left over peanut butter is i...