Peanut butter jelly and a backwards hat! This week on Bless Your Rank, Matt is gonna figure out which peanut butter is the ultimate creamy, nutty champion.
I guess journalism in Hooterville is different because George Washington Carver didn't invent peanut butter. Marcellus Gilmore Edson invented peanut butter and he lived in Canada far from the south. The videos are entertaining as long as people know sugar and hydrogenated oil are not the key ingredients to make good peanut butter. LOL
@@johnluna9286 George Washington Carver did not actually invent peanut butter. He is credited, however, with finding over 300 different uses for peanuts that range from soap to paper because of his extensive research. Edson, had a role, as did the ancient Aztecs and Dr Kellog. I'd say Carver worked most to bring peanut products to prominence in the modern era.
My grandmother used to put Peter Pan PB, and butter, on Saltines. It's one of the only things she ate. That, pretzels, and Gingerale were her whole diet. She could make a leg of Lamb that would make you see the face of the Lord but she'd be in the corner eating Saltines with Peter Pan and Butter. Greatest Woman I ever knew.
Natural peanut butter is how peanut butter is supposed to taste. Whoever decided to add corn syrup and seed oils to a wonderful product should be ashamed. It's not supposed to be sweet, it's supposed to perfectly counteract the sweetness of the other ingredients it's prepared with.
Nostolgia is a poweful thing, but yea a pbj with natural pb, toasted artisan bread and homemade jam is a really wonderful thing, just very different than the "kid friendly" version
That is a great idea for a video series! You should have the subscribers submit pictures of their pantry and have Matt do a video where he ranks the pantries and decides whether or not he would stay at the house based on what foods are available.
I have an almost empty jar of JIF on countertop. a full on in lazy susan and 2 more at gf house from Sam's club so imagine the size. I like Skippy as well. i won't turn down peter pan. i agree totally with Matt on the rankings 100%.
Also, Smuckers owns Jif. They were acquired in 2001, or sometime around then. Jif has always been made in Lexington, KY, as far as I know. The plant is near downtown, and you can smell the peanuts roasting sometimes. Delicious! :)
The trick to the Smuckers natural PB is to refrigerate it after opening and stirring. It has a super smooth and creamy consistency, great flavor, and isn't loaded with sugar and other oils. I can totally see how the first time using it after opening it (without stirring it for quite some time and refrigerating it) is a bad experience though.
I store it out of the refrigerator but upside down. Cold PB is hard to spread, just ripping up bread. Flipping it over means the oil is on the bottom and you can just get PB, or stir up the amount of oil you choose.
Smuckers Natural tastes the way peanut butter is SUPPOSED to taste, not loaded up with a bunch of crap. Skippy and Jif are loaded with sugar and trans fats.
😂😂 i want to see Matt rank alternative nut butters now (almond, sunflower seed, etc)- it would be hilarious because he doesn’t put up with any bougie crap.
Man I love a good cashew butter...and there's pistachio butter which I've yet to try...but it sounds amazing!. I can't stand almond butter, it's too sweet.
No. That bread tie always changes direction. It's a conspiracy. If you mix peanut and the jelly together it makes the sammi better. And I love apples n peanut butter. I was sick one day and my grandson was here , he was 7 and he cut an apple up with a butter knife and put peanut butter on the pieces cut up weirdly and brought it to me. The sweetest thing ever!! I know I share too much but I'm southern.
I freaking LOVE Smuckers natural. I tried it under duress because I like super sweet peanut butter - I was a Peter Pan girl. Smuckers is a bit gritty and it does have to be stirred forever because it doesn't have any palm oil or hydrogenated oils. I put up with the gritty and the stirring because it tastes fantastic!
I also love smuckers. I don’t want the sugar that others have. Peanuts and salt. Just stir it with a knife and put in fridge. I eat it right from the jar when I need a protein boost.
I grew up on peter pan crunchy. My grandmother always made me peter pan on bunny bread (local brand made within walking distance from my house) with strawberry preserves and jays potato chips (my favorite was the hot stuff flavor). I use jif or skippy when I make cookies but peter pan is my favorite
I lived right next to the Jif factory in Lexington KY for about 5 years. I got to smell the heavenly goodness of roasted peanuts nearly every day. Needless to say, Jif will always be my favorite!
Fun fact: every single container of Peter Pan peanut butter is manufactured in a facility in Sylvester, Georgia. All of the peanuts grown and harvested for Peter Pan peanut butter comes from the State of Georgia! Peter Pan peanut butter is a Southern Thing, Y'all!
The Alabama lunchable made me laugh. I was born in Alabama (lived most of my life in South Carolina) and I love eating Ritz with peanut butter. My dad once picked up the worst peanut butter I've ever tried. it had no salt no sugar and the oil settled out so the peanut butter was hard as a rock. A friend of mine was allergic to peanuts, mainly the shells, and Pater Pan is the only peanut butter she never had a reaction to. She said either they were better at keeping shells from the mix or they didn't use real peanuts.
Growing up broke, we got some peanut butter from the food bank, it was a brand called American. Now this was the dryest, thickest, hardest to eat peanut butter Ive ever had, it was practically like clay. I damn near suffocated trying to eat a peanut butter sandwich. I kid you not I drank almost a half gallon of milk just to get that one sandwich down without dying
You know it is for poor people when you look on the packaging and the front simply says peanut butter, you look on the back for the ingredients and it says see front of package.
We had the white cardboard cans with black letters on it that was exactly how you described from.the govt food box we would go stand in line for every month. So hard to eat but it made the absolute best cookies ever. That's what my gramma did with it.
Who knew I was this passionate about peanut butter?? "Jif is #1" and I'm over here saying "Damn right it is!!" like I spent all day crunching up the peanuts that made it..lol Anyway, great video as always! I love watching Matt do reviews.
@@greggcollins4215 are you trolling me?? Lol Skippy is what a 60s dad called his son while he's giving advice and playing catch in the front yard..based on that alone, it's an inferior product...🤷♂️🤣😂🤣
He should rate best Mayonnaise (which will always be Duke’s) , best White Bread loaf, best Little Debbie cake, or have a group of southern grandmas make different southern staples like (banana pudding, cornbread, collards, fried chicken , etc.) and have him rank the best one ! This is my favorite series on RU-vid !
My family is from the north and the love of peanut butter runs DEEP for generations in my family. We eat it with most everything! Pancakes, muffins, toast, brownies, by itself, smoothies, you name it. For breakfast peanut butter has it's own spot at the table. When anyone brings someone new over, the first question is always, "how do you feel about peanut butter?" I wish I was kidding, but I'm not. It's serious over here. My uncle can even be blindfolded and tell you, with perfect accuracy, which one is what brand. Jif & Peter Pan are the families preferred brands. Although I'm personally a sucker for honey roasted fresh ground peanut butter (like from Whole Foods). Yum!
@@juanita_rocksteady2761 no, you're right. those bread ties are difficult to untie. and after awhile, it can break off after so many twists. oh well, that's the price to pay to get to that delicious 🍞 😋.
They are twisted in two directions. I know this as my best friend worked at Brownberry Bakeries and they can select how to twist the wire. She said twisting two directions was a more secure twist. So y’all aren’t going crazy.
I love smuckers natural because it is the only one that tastes like peanuts. I can't stand peanut butters with shortening and emulsifiers in them because those taste nasty to me. And the ultra smooth ones kinda make me think of melted plastic, so I don't mind texture to remind me it is actually made of a food grown from the ground instead of a product made in a lab. To each their own. :)
The funny thing about my family is my sister loves Skippy, my parents love Peter Pan , and I love Jif . We have actually had debate about it. We are definitely from the South. Love y’all. Thanks for sharing.
@@PatrickDaviswimiwamwamwazzle Jif sucks. Peter Pan tastes way better. It also doesn’t act like glue on your mouth. I will never buy Jif, the worst brand out ther.
I used to eat smuckers natural as a kid all the time because my mom was a health nut. I figured out I liked it much better when I drained the oil instead if stirring it! Sometimes it would get a little too dry, but you can always add the oil back if you keep it in a jar or something. But when the consistency was right, it was some of the best stuff on earth
If you like peanuts, you’ll like Skippy! I was named after this brand. Mama had a real sense of humor. Wasn’t easy while serving in the military though.
I used to work down the street from the Jif plant in Lexington and lord...let me tell ya! The smell in that area on roasting days was enough to drive everyone wild! I'm fairly certain that the next day, everyone had peanut butter in some form in their lunch.
I live in Lexington, Kentucky and I live on the south side of town and I can still smell the peanut butter plant periodically. I don't eat peanut butter that often even though I like it.
I normally totally agree with you Matt. But I LOVE natural peanut butter. I grew up with my mum buying pb from the health food store as it was the only place to buy the natural kind. And we are not health conscious lol. But we love the taste and texture. But I still really enjoyed this video as always x
I'm late to comment but compelled to state my opinion! I'm 69 and have tried A LOT of brands of peanut butter. I decided a number of years ago that I liked Jif best. My kids all know this and mostly agree with me. They all have Jif in their cupboards!
I buy Smuckers Naturals for cooking savory Thai and African dishes because it’s literally just nut paste without sugar. If I’m eating peanut butter for the sake of peanut butter, I go Jif. 😊 (And yes, I regret my use of the phrase “nut paste.”)
Matt is so much fun to watch, and I love his opinions and reactions. I always buy Jif, but now when it’s sold out next time I think I will get Skippy. My dad once bought natural peanut butter from the health food store and it was gross and you had to stir it a lot, and it Increased my appreciation of Jif.
🤣🤣🤣Grew up on Adams natural crunchy peanut butter. Watching you try to stir the Smuckers with a plastic spoon was hilarious. Mom would leave the jar upside down for a day and then take a knife to it. Therapeutic stabbing. 🙃
@@jamiem2444 Adams is made by Smuckers. I have issues finding Laura Scudders where I am and I found that if I can find any of the three I'm in the clear. 🙂
i feel like plastic cutlery are abominations; they're just waiting to break on me; maybe it's cuz i don't know my own strength, i did once snap a plastic handle on a blade sharpener or w/e it was called, used for sharpening chainsaw teeth
@@SchruteFarms Don't think I've ever tried the no stir. Due to supply chain issues and whatnot, though, I had to buy a different jar of peanut butter recently. Every sandwich I made with the one I bought (don't even remember the brand) just tasted wrong. So when the Adams was next in stock, I bought two jars. >__>
This may be a late comment, but if you ever want a naturally sweet peanut butter, Trader Joe’s unsalted creamy or chunky pb is amazing! Best flavor to me hands down! It is still runny though!
Justin's normal peanut butter is pretty mediocre, but their honey infused peanut butter is honestly a 10/10 product. It's strange how much they differ.
When I was little, my mum switched us to "all-natural" peanut butter ground fresh at the health food store. No salt, no sugar, no emulsifiers or homogenizers or preservatives -- nothing but nuts. It came in a bucket with a snap-down top, so storing upsidey-downdy was out of the question, else there'd be messy peanut oil leaks. I never made the connection at the time, but perhaps my ability to throw a baseball three hundred feet when I was 11 (and a girl) had more to do with stirring the peanut butter and less to do with any particular athletic talent. P.S. I still prefer peanut butter made from nothing but nuts, but stirring it in jars is SO MUCH HARDER than stirring it in those buckets!
I knew you would rank Smucker's last as soon as you said you preferred the sweet ones. I hate sweet peanut butter, so Smucker's is great - nothing but peanuts and salt. Sometimes I just buy salted peanuts and run them through my food processor until they're peanut butter.
I am right there with you. I grew up with "natural peanut butter" so things like JIF, Peter Pan, etc., all taste like peanut butter-flavored frosting to me. I can't stand them. I don't like any of the ones with sugar added, but I get people that are used to that and that is fine. Just not for me.
I have to agree with you on the Reese’s peanut butter in the jar. I absolutely love the peanut butter in Reese’s peanut butter cups, but the peanut butter in the jars just tastes different.
Y’all should do a bless your rank on fast food ice creams or desserts, like the Chick-fil-A milkshake versus the McFlurry versus the Wendy’s frosty. I would also suggest backyard burger milkshakes, since they have the cool chunks in them.
My dad did a blind taste test with me because he thought I couldn’t tell the difference between Jif (the absolute best peanut butter of all time) and all the other brands, and I passed with flying colors. I only buy Jif or don’t buy peanut butter at all.
Ah man, this is probably the BYR that made me laugh the hardest. We love peanut butter in my family, and have found something to love in each of your first three picks. I figured they'd make top-tier. If you want to talk about peanutbutter freedom, though, ... my dad likes to snack on hot dogs with peanutbutter! Might be legal in the US, but a big no-no in our house, haha! Seriously though, poor guy's been teased about it since I was a kid. My mom still razzes him sometimes when she's noticed he got the first coveted scoop of peanutbutter out the jar. She still picks up whatever peanutbutter he wants, though, if she's doing the shopping, and an eye out for his spicey peanuts/mixed nuts.
I was expecting a JIF/GIF joke and I was not disappointed. When y'all gonna let Matt talk about the greatness that is the Whataburger Spicy Chicken? We need an update on the spicy bird wars!
LOL Matt. I actually do buy Smucker's as I am on a high protein, low carb diet plan. Smucker's has 2 ingredients, peanuts and salt; no added sugar or palm oil (that's what makes regular peanut butter not separate). I do have to mix it for a long time, but I use a table knife to do that job. Keep the ranks coming!
Yeah if you mix it up real good and put it the the fridge it won't separate. It's actually really good. Dip it in dark chocolate! Or if you like reeses peanut butter cups homemade chocolate frosting with this peanut butter has the same taste.
Just use a kitchen mixer to whip that Smuckers up! Sometimes I flip the jar so to peanut oil mixes in instead of on top before mixing. We use it for the high protein, 2 ingredients
I actually love Adams which is the separated kind. It's a HUGE pain to mix it at first, but then it's fine. It's nice because it has more texture and tastes more peanut-y.
Yes, the bread ties struggle is real. I think they should all switch to the little square tags like dinner rolls have. My bread ties always seem to be twisted in two different directions, that is no joke!
I hate the square tags because it's hard to get them back on without tearing the plastic. Where as the bread ties are easy to retie without cutting the plastic.
Just be glad they didn't seal it with that plastic tape that is impossible to open without a knife. Where I live, it's is that or the tags. If you want twist ties, you gotta buy them separately.
Matt: “Who eats this stuff?” (In reference to Smucker’s) Me: **Raises hand** No added sugar. Fewer unhealthy fats. And, like a lot of healthy foods, it may take a while, but you will develop a taste for it. I actually prefer it now.
I wanna see this ranked again, but including the commodities stuff that comes in the gallon can. You had to stir the heck out of it before spreading, but it made the best dang PB cookies you ever had.
some people come just for the entertainment, but I appreciate the knowledge and insight Matt provides about foods. but we all know jif is the real peanut butter champion, no competition
I’ve been known to walk around my house with a teaspoon sticking out of my mouth. Inside my mouth, nestled between the bowl of the spoon and the roof of my mouth, is crunchy peanut butter. During these episodes of peanut butter lust I do not answer my cell phone(because I can’t talk) or the doorbell (because I don’t need the rumors about how weird I am validated). Matt Mitchell, another triumph. Keep ‘em coming. And thanks for the “There’s no such thing as too many casseroles” kitchen towel.
Follow along with me here…the Natural Peanut Butter, is actually GREAT for Making Buckeyes Candy!!!! Mainly because you’re using SO MUCH Powdered Sugar…you really Don’t Want the Added Sugar IN the Peanut Butter. Just Try It next time & Y’all are Welcome. 🥰
Just discovered your channel. I'm in Massachusetts, so ... Anyway, you are the most entertaining Southerner on RU-vid {and I don't need anybody's permission to say so).
@@im_just_here_6297 I am so disappointed I can't find Peter pan honey where I live anymore. I get the Skippy honey which is decent but no Peter pan honey
I was raised on smuckers peanut butter! It’s awesome! Put it in my cereal all the time! Great source of protein! 😋 Also, I don think you want the J.M. Smuckers company to go out of business. They make the Jif peanut butter you put at the first! 😂😂😂
Yes Matt!!! You said Reese’s correctly!!! I had a friend as a teen who said it like you were (WRONG WAY) and I had flashbacks of her and all the times I tried to correct her!! 😂 Myself and many of us in my family are Reese’s lovers!! ADDICTED!! Never tried their peanut butter though.
When I was a kid my dad would come inside after mowing the grass or doing yard work and pour a big glass of cold milk and make a peanut butter sandwich. He came in one summer day and did just that, took a huge bite of his peanut butter sandwich and got a very weird and befuddled look on his face. He went over to the garbage can and spit it out! He walked back to the kitchen counter, angrily grabbed the jar off the counter and read JIF!!! on the label and NOT his beloved SKIPPY! My brother and I were laughing so hard we had tears coming down our faces. My dad, who NEVER, NEVER, EVER wasted food threw that jar of JIF right into the garbage can with the rest of his sandwich while muttering to himself, "I don't know what the hell that stuff is but it doesn't even have PEANUTS on the label!" At dinner that night there was a "peanut butter" discussion between my parents and it turned out that my mother (who HATED peanut butter) had purchased JIF instead of SKIPPY because it was on sale. Well my father said no wonder it was on sale as it didn't have any peanuts in it and to please NOT buy it again! After that incident my mother ALWAYS made sure to buy SKIPPY peanut butter for my dad.
