Saturday, September 25, 2010

Peanut Butter Taste Test!

I love taste tests. I love preparing them for others. The chance to experiment in a real study, to glean knowledge of self, of what you really like best. Whether you are brand loyal.

Whether price paid matters.

To choose free from hype or commercial influence is a rare thing in our world.

This was something a friend suggested when we ran into her at the grocery store.


That's ten different bottles of peanut butter. Five smooth, five creamy. Three were the "honey" blends. Two were store brands.



We ate them with graham and ritz crackers, celery, twisty honey pretzels, and then hershey bars for dessert.

The kids had clear preferences to NOT eat the store brands. But almost everybody disliked the honey blends also (they were too "thick", not creamy enough).

Choice is a great blessing, even in little things, we can be grateful for it.

4 comments:

Emmalyn said...

was there a clear winner overall?

landbeck said...

Not a clear winner for the peanut butter, but definitely for the honey-wheat pretzel twist sticks. I subsequently bought enough to fill the big treat jar (4 bags), and they were half gone in less than 6 hours.

Jane Babcock said...

Same question as Emmalyn. It might be easier to first eliminate the tasty but less healthy peanut butters and to focus on either crunchy or creamy. With just two of us, I don't want to have that many open bottles of peanut butter.

Deb said...

An easier taste test might be between types of butters. I prefer peanut butter over cashew butter. I like almond butter best.