Thread: lies, promises and brown paper bag time.

Originally Posted by Homestar

Maybe it's a Queensland thing - I've never seen peanut paste down here in Vic - it is bloody tasty though - it has s different taste to peanut butter.

Interesting , it is a Victorian manufacturer

I've only ever referred to it as paste.

Interesting topic, the paste/butter debate. To understand why, perhaps a little history lesson is in order.
The inventor (Marcellus Edson) in America called it Peanut Butter. He called it that because it had the consistency of butter.
One of the first companies to manufacture this product in Australia called it Peanut Butter. Sanitarium I think it was.
The dairy industry were not happy with the naming as butter was a dairy product. They lobbied governments. Queensland was the first state to ban the term "butter" when applied to non dairy foods. SA (& NT) & WA followed soon after.
This also affected coco butter which today we know as copha.

So, the SE of Australia grew up calling it "Peanut Butter" and the rest of Australia grew up calling it "Peanut Paste".
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Interestingly, there are now two products available, as Homestar mentioned earlier.
Peanut Butter has all sorts of stuff added, such as sugar, salt and emulsifiers, to make it palatable for the general populace for when they spread it on their buttered toast or jelly sandwiches.
The other product is Peanut Paste. This is generally just ground roasted peanuts and is used as a cooking ingredient used in things such as satays.

Of course, in these enlightened times, we assume people know the difference between "Peanut Paste" and "Butter". Big assumption, I know. Some people don't realise butter is made from milk from cows. If they do, they might think Peanut Butter comes from Peanut Milk from cows fed on peanuts. Mind you, pop down the local supermarket and ask the spotty shelf stacker "Where is the Peanut Paste?" and he will just say "We don't have any."
Maybe it's time the dairy industry arced up again.

Mmmmm....
Satay.....
Time for dinner.

Dinner/tea....
Now, that's another debate.

Where can I get this paste ? Seems my Victorian made stuff is called butter . No added stuff except a pinch of salt. The health food places where you supply your on container call the stuff butter too.

Originally Posted by trog

Where can I get this paste ? Seems my Victorian made stuff is called butter . No added stuff except a pinch of salt. The health food places where you supply your on container call the stuff butter too.

Read the previous post.

Remember "Rita , the Eta eater"?

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

Remember "Rita , the Eta eater"?

Yep, You must be the same age as me.

I went out with a Girl called Rita once - her nickname came from those adverts but I can't print what it actually was here being G rated and all...

Originally Posted by Homestar

Yep, You must be the same age as me.

I went out with a Girl called Rita once - her nickname came from those adverts but I can't print what it actually was here being G rated and all...

Well as long as she dined with you, that's OK.