# It's Peanut Paste not Peanut Butter **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2012, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-peanut-paste-not-peanut-butter/641694 "2012-11-21T06:54:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-peanut-paste-not-peanut-butter/641694/61 "2015-10-01T11:24:28Z")
> [@Learjeff](#): > > If you think of butter as cold and hard, you’re doing it wrong. And you’ll never tango in Paris, either! ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-peanut-paste-not-peanut-butter/641694/62 "2015-10-01T13:22:55Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > at least you don’t call them “groundnuts” like the poms. Which led to me asking my pom then-BF in a restaurant (rather plaintively, as I’d had enough of the new culture for a day), “What the hell is a _ **groundnut** _?” ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-peanut-paste-not-peanut-butter/641694/63 "2015-10-01T13:25:38Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Ich schreien, du schreien, wir schreien für… Eiscreme? Nein. “Eine Eis”, oder “eine Eiskrem”. AFAIK. It’s been a few years. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-peanut-paste-not-peanut-butter/641694/64 "2015-10-01T14:50:25Z")
My Mother’s family, as I’ve mentioned before, owns a large farm or three down in Southern Georgia. (The US version.) In the early 80’s, it became popular for grocery stores to have a grinder in the back which would mash up fresh roasted peanuts into “natural” peanut butter on demand. My Mom was thrilled to have an old home treat. So she brought home this container of pure mashed-up roasted peanuts for us to try. It quickly separated into peanut solids and oil, with the oil floating on top. My brother promptly poured the “disgusting stuff” off the top into the sink. Mom chastised him saying “Now we’ve got nothing left but peanut paste.” She then explained that the peanut mash could be separated into oil and paste, just like separating milk into curds and whey. When you stir it up and mix the oil and paste together, you get peanut butter. So, my Mom isn’t the authority on much, but I’ll take the word of a Georgia Peach over “industry standard” on this one. 😉 P.S. have you ever tried pear butter? Because that is truly a heavenly creation. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-peanut-paste-not-peanut-butter/641694/65 "2015-10-01T15:58:13Z")
According to the ex who is English but spent his formative years in Adelaide, it’s “Biafra’s cack”. I always wondered which locale he got that from or if he made it up as an expression of his disgust of the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-peanut-paste-not-peanut-butter/641694/66 "2015-10-01T22:19:23Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > P.S. have you ever tried pear butter? Because that is truly a heavenly creation. Pumpkin butter too – maple-flavored! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-peanut-paste-not-peanut-butter/641694/67 "2015-10-02T00:00:32Z")
> [@Learjeff](#): > > If you think of butter as cold and hard, you’re doing it wrong. I think of orange juice as frozen solid and formed into a cylinder. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-peanut-paste-not-peanut-butter/641694.md?page=3)