Neither does this one
It all came about due to a conversation with a friend of mine who is also a surgery resident here with me.
Somehow I mentioned that I had been to Bangladesh back in my younger days. It turns out that he had been there back in his younger days too. Talk eventually turned to Bangladeshi cuisine. It turns out that he wasn't such a big fan of it. In fact, he said that he had subsisted on peanut butter for days to a week at a time. Peanut butter!!
Now I like me a nice gooey peanut butter sandwich every now and again. However, the craving for it doesn't hit that often, and I could most certainly not eat it every day in a row. The more I thought about it, the more I decided that peanut butter probably should not be included on any list of edible substances.
Here is my rational. I have a 40 oz bottle of the stuff in my cupboard. Being a single guy who spends most of my time at the hospital, I eat most of my meals somewhere other than my house. Even when I do eat at home, I rarely eat peanut butter. I just don't get a hankering for it that often. However, the stuff doesn't spoil. It just sits there in my cupboard and patiently awaits my next craving for it. It never has a bit of fungus or bacteria growing on it even though I've probably had this current bottle of the stuff for a year or two.
Doesn't that strike you as odd? Every other thing that is edible in my kitchen is either in the refrigerator, freezer, or in sealed metal cans. The exceptions to that would be the bottles of vinegar and cooking oil as well as the spices, but one could certainly debate whether or not those substances are edible as well.
Bacteria will eat almost anything, including stuff we would never consider edible. For example, I had some newspaper in the garbage can. Somehow it got wet and then sat there for several weeks as several more layers of stuff got put over top of it. One day I caught a waft of a foul odor and discovered that it emanated from the garbage can. Lo and behold, bacteria had begun fermenting the newspaper. Yet these same bugs leave my peanut butter alone as it sits in my cabinet for months to years.
The stuff seems suspect to me.
Somehow I mentioned that I had been to Bangladesh back in my younger days. It turns out that he had been there back in his younger days too. Talk eventually turned to Bangladeshi cuisine. It turns out that he wasn't such a big fan of it. In fact, he said that he had subsisted on peanut butter for days to a week at a time. Peanut butter!!
Now I like me a nice gooey peanut butter sandwich every now and again. However, the craving for it doesn't hit that often, and I could most certainly not eat it every day in a row. The more I thought about it, the more I decided that peanut butter probably should not be included on any list of edible substances.
Here is my rational. I have a 40 oz bottle of the stuff in my cupboard. Being a single guy who spends most of my time at the hospital, I eat most of my meals somewhere other than my house. Even when I do eat at home, I rarely eat peanut butter. I just don't get a hankering for it that often. However, the stuff doesn't spoil. It just sits there in my cupboard and patiently awaits my next craving for it. It never has a bit of fungus or bacteria growing on it even though I've probably had this current bottle of the stuff for a year or two.
Doesn't that strike you as odd? Every other thing that is edible in my kitchen is either in the refrigerator, freezer, or in sealed metal cans. The exceptions to that would be the bottles of vinegar and cooking oil as well as the spices, but one could certainly debate whether or not those substances are edible as well.
Bacteria will eat almost anything, including stuff we would never consider edible. For example, I had some newspaper in the garbage can. Somehow it got wet and then sat there for several weeks as several more layers of stuff got put over top of it. One day I caught a waft of a foul odor and discovered that it emanated from the garbage can. Lo and behold, bacteria had begun fermenting the newspaper. Yet these same bugs leave my peanut butter alone as it sits in my cabinet for months to years.
The stuff seems suspect to me.
posted by The Mad Hatter at 8:31 PM
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