My mom made it. I copied her. I ate it a lot in high school as a snack.
Count me as another odd one out - Peter Pan for me. Since childhood. Though I don’t eat peanut butter much anymore, since I don’t keep bread on hand and peanut butter toast was my normal method of consumption.
I have tried either Skippy or Jif once many years ago (I think Jif, but am not sure), but did not care for it. Never tried the other.
:smack: D’oh! I forgot I’m a Skippy fan, not Jif. I just know it’s the light-blue label.
I grew up with Skippy, so it tastes like peanut butter to me. I don’t eat it much any more. As a satay dipping sauce or in cookies is about the only way I have it now. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten Jif. Was it more expensive? But once my mom got Peter Pan, and it was nasty. So oily – even after a lot of stirring – that I wanted to barf.
I was always a JIF man myself. I’ve not had peanut butter on a regular basis, so I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that JIF had a slightly sweeter taste to it.
These days, I prefer neither and go for the more organic and less-sweetened version of PB. But even so, I’ve not had peanut butter in quite a while now that I think of it.
I’m curious as to why folks are spelling “Jif” in all caps. It’s not an abbreviation or an acronym. It’s not even displayed in all caps on the label as many brand names are.
For a long time, that was the only way you could get natural peanut butter. You’d go to a health food store, buy the peanuts, and they’d feed them through the grinder for you.
Loved the granular texture of it, loved the way it was warm when it came out of the grinder. Don’t recall its getting too hard to spread once refrigerated.
Smucker’s and Weis store brand natural PB re-create that texture really well, which is one of the reasons I like both of those.
Almost all references I see have “Jif.” Me personally? I spelled it “Jif” in all references except my last one, when the last reference to it was spelled “JIF,” so obviously influenced by that. But, otherwise, almost the whole thread everyone is spelling it “Jif.”
ETA: Incidentally, Jif is sometimes cited as one of the various instances of the Mandela Effect. In this case, apparently a lot of people have a memory of Jif once being called Jiffy, which it never was.
I think it depends on the batch of peanuts. I used to get fresh ground every week for a while. Sometimes it was stiff and hard. Sometimes, it was a lot smoother. Depends on how much natural oil the peanuts have. I’m just guessing that the fresher they are, the oilier they are.
Haha. Thanks for the laugh. You were so persuasive up to that point.
That would be a good one for my old Mandela Effect thread.
I finally got a chance to try some Jif. (that spelling just looks wrong).
First impressions. It’s smoother than Skippy. It tastes less peanutty than Skippy. What does peanutty mean? It’s probably the bitterness. The Skippy is a tiny bit bitter. Fresh ground is bitter too. Maybe the molasses cuts some of the bitterness? Or maybe I just got an abnormally less bitter jar full.
So far, I’m liking Jif a lot.
I’m holding off voting until I go through the whole jar. I also like that Jif comes in bigger jars. The low-sodium Skippy I get only comes in small jars.