# Can man live on peanut butter \[or ketchup\] alone?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 6, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-man-live-on-peanut-butter-or-ketchup-alone/655033 "2013-04-06T19:21:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-man-live-on-peanut-butter-or-ketchup-alone/655033/41 "2013-04-10T18:19:38Z")

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That would make for an interesting marketing gimmick / awareness exercise:  
“Buy one PlumpyNut package and we’ll send one free to a starving child!”

Like Tom’s shoes, just for starving kids.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-man-live-on-peanut-butter-or-ketchup-alone/655033/42 "2013-04-11T00:25:36Z")

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> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> That would make for an interesting marketing gimmick / awareness exercise:  
> “Buy one PlumpyNut package and we’ll send one free to a starving child!”
> 
> Like Tom’s shoes, just for starving kids.

Actually, that could be interesting as an awareness raising campaign. I also would be interested in what it tastes like, though I do realize the issues with malnutrition and the conditions that come from it, and how difficult it can be to bring someone back from a famine or starvation [in WW2 some of the concentration camp inmates died from eating too much too quickly] many people have no idea.

You could pair it up - a packet of plumpy-nut, a flier about malnutrition and famine, and one for someone in a famine zone. Beat the hell out of some actor type showcasing a poor kid somewhere. Someone who wouldn’t pay out monthly would probably consider buying into this sort of deal.

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