You Won't Believe How Hard It Is To Find Peanut Butter In These Countries

[PTB]

And I take it they mean regular peanut butter, not the natural kind, which would be even more rare:

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You Won't Believe How Hard It Is To Find Peanut Butter In These Countries

By Alison Spiegel

Of all our favorite foods that we can't imagine living without, peanut butter is definitely high up on this list. We'll eat peanut butter in PB&Js, of course, but also innoodle dishes, in spicy sauces and straight out of the jar with spoon. A world without peanut butter is a world we don't want to live in, and a country without peanut butter is one we're not sure we want to travel to.

Sadly, many countries don't share America's love for peanut butter. “In many parts of the world, peanut butter is regarded as an unpalatable American curiosity,” Brian Sternthal, a professor of marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, explains. That fact almost doesn't compute, as we Americans eat more than a billion pounds of peanut butter every year.

Peanut butter is an especially tough sell in most of Europe. American peanut farmers have even tried advertising peanut butter to Europeans to warm them up to what could be a golden export for us, but no one's biting."The average European still eatsless than one tablespoon of U.S. peanut butter in an entire year."

Peanut butter might be available in other countries, but it is often extremely hard to find, very expensive and sometimes barely reminiscent of the peanut butter we know in the U.S.

Here are 10 countries where you'll be hard pressed to find peanut butter. Help us out by telling us more in the comments!

1.) France:
Why do the French hate peanut butter? What did peanut butter ever do to them? We know the French have great taste, but this is a serious blind spot.

2.) Italy
Italians know a thing or two about food. They just don't know the glory of peanut butter.

3.) England
We feel like the Brits should really embrace peanut butter, but it's still too hard to find in Great Britain

4.) Spain
Perhaps you're seeing a trend here. Europeans do not eat peanut butter.

5.) Russia
Peanut butter might be available in bigger cities like Moscow, but you'll be hard-pressed to find it elsewhere in Russia. As one blogger explains, "The constant search for peanut butter consumes a disproportionate share of an expat’s time here in Russia."

6.) China
Peanut butter isn't very popular in mainland China (although it's not impossible to find in cities like Hong Kong). All that may change soon, however, since Hormel Foods purchased Skippy with the intention of "seizing opportunities in China."

7.) Sweden
While you might be able to find peanut butter in the "American food" section of some grocery stores, it's not all that common. There's even a Facebook group called, "Sweden Needs Peanut Butter."

8.) Czech Republic
Have you ever searched for peanut butter in the Czech Republic?

9.) Argentina
There might be an entire aisle in the grocery store devoted to dulce de leche (which we have no problem with), but peanut butter is really hard to come by.

10.) Denmark
If you're able to find peanut butter in Denmark, it may not taste like the stuff you're used to. There's plenty of Nutella, but not as much peanut butter.

[cook]

haha take that Europe...and south America....and Asia and whoever else cant get peanut butter

[gilbrt]

There's plenty of peanut butter in Australia

[PTB]

There's plenty of peanut butter in Australia

grown/harvested domestically or imported? If imported, how much per 16oz tub?

[gilbrt]

Homegrown for years and we deal in grams so I'll look at the conversion but $4 bucks a normal size jar or cheaper

[greakfreak]

in france whilst working there in st tropez i found pb at euro 5.40 a small 250 ml jar.here in CYPRUS we get 1kg tubs of pb at euro 8.00

the strange thing is it comes from uk so how come the OP claims its not available there??

[WillgetBig]

Here at Chile it's not only hard to find, but also expensive! But no way im not buying it, its delicious and has some good macros

[Ironbrian82]

The UK has loads of peanut butter, we don't consume as much as the usa

[PeterCas]

Easy to find in China...but not cheap. Roughly 10 USD per jar!

[Ibarramedia]

They eat a lot of peanut butter in Mexico and the Philippines. Countries like Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, England and China eat it too!

In fact, peanut butter was invented in Canada!

From Wikipedia:

Peanut butter is a food paste made primarily from ground dry roasted peanut (actually a legume and not a nut) and is popular in North America, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia and parts of Asia, particularly the Philippines and Indonesia. It is mainly used as a sandwich spread, sometimes in combination with other spreads such as jam, chocolate (in various forms), vegetables or cheese. The United Statesis a leading exporter of peanut butter. Nuts are also prepared comparably as nut butters

Canadian Marcellus Gilmore Edson (February 7, 1849 – March 6, 1940) of Montreal, Quebec was the first to patent peanut butter, in 1884. Peanut flour already existed. His cooled product had "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment" according to his patent application. He included the mixing of sugar into the paste so as to harden its consistency.
Edson, a chemist (pharmacist), developed the idea of peanut paste as a delicious and nutritious staple for people who could hardly chew on solid food, a not uncommon state back in those days. Peanut paste was initially sold for six cents per pound.