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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by dgellow on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:57AM (#23244055)
Wait, is chocolate and peanut butter really a thing?! That sounds quite horrible to my non-US ears.

Edit: yep, an online search seems to say that's an actual thing. I guess I'm part of the ten thousand today https://xkcd.com/1053/. I will never understand the US fascination for peanut butter.

Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by jholman on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @07:29AM (#23245609)
Chocolate and peanut butter is amazing.

And yes, as a sibling notes, Reese's peanut butter cups are actually alarmingly tasty, but.... as with any $1 chocolate bar, that's shitty HFCS-saturated chocolate and shitty palm-oil-laced peanut butter, with way too much sugar in it, so if you're too good for that, well, that's a credit to your tastebuds, good on ya.

So eat real chocolate with real peanut butter. Real peanut butter is nothing but peanuts and salt (it keeps well, but fresh-ground is better). Real chocolate, I trust you can figure out. Milk and dark are both good in this application.

Although, of course, peanuts are not true nuts (no more than macadamia or almond or walnut), they're nonetheless very nutty, and the effect is pretty similar to "almond bark", or hazelnuts with chocolate, or pecans and chocolate. And of course you can just eat peanuts with chocolate, an okay combination. But there's something weirdly perfect about peanut butter with chocolate, better than peanuts with chocolate.

But hey, although I'm not American, I am from America's hat, and I do like peanut butter in a few other formats too.

Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by bluedino on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:48AM (#23246232)
You should try a buckeye! It's basically peanut butter wrapped in chocolate, giving an appearance similar to a buckeye nut.
Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by kd5bjo on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:28AM (#23244239)
> I will never understand the US fascination for peanut butter.

At one point in history, US farmers were encouraged to grow peanuts as a rotation crop to improve soil quality. That led to a glut of peanuts in the market, so people tried to find uses for them. Peanut butter was invented+ as one of these uses, and has been a staple of American diets ever since.

+Or promoted, I can’t remember

Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by addHocker on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:47AM (#23244997)
They promoted soy family members for there self-fertilization attribute.

https://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_a/A129/

Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by Gaelan on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:40AM (#23244676)
Reese's peanut butter cups [0] are a fairly popular "candy" item here. Try one if you get a chance, they're pretty tasty.

[0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reeses-PB-Cups.jpg

Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by bonzini on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:41AM (#23244684)
As a European, sandwich with Nutella on one bread side and peanut butter on the other is awesome (except for your cholesterol).
Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by pier25 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:07PM (#23248517)
and sugar...