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It can feel like we live in a time of division, but there is a common bond that unites us as Americans and human beings. I speak, of course,Peanut Butter. We love peanut butter. Especially in the United States, we can not get enough of the substance. We eat, on average,700 million pounds of peanut butter Every year, which breaks down to about 22 tablespoons per person each year. It's a devil of manypeanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

But we are not eating sandwiches PB & J, are we? Here's how our differences and our diversity make us big.Peanut butter is our favorite ingredientBut how we like consuming depends on the regional preferences. In some parts of the country, people like soaking apple slices in peanut butter. In other regions, they buy Peanut Butter Cups Reese in bulk. Just make you want to sing "God Blessed America" ​​with a mouthful of peanut butter. (And depending on the size of a glue goodness ball that you have swallowed, it will probably be his more like "GWAD BWESS AMOOICA." But you get the point.)

Here are some creative ways that people like to eat peanut butter in the 50 states. And for more, check these15 classical American desserts that deserve a return.

Fly & Dine The magazine chose the "Heart of Dixie" to haveone of the first five Peanut butter pies in the country. The choices are Mother Alabama-Everyone abundant makes "the best", but most people point to legendary common BBQ Miss Myra in Birmingham, including peanut buttertart Recipe has become the stuff not only a local legend, but an obsession with the state on a scale. As we say local, "I would sleep on these things like a pillow if it would not get in the way of my night-curling hair ritual. »

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Nothing extraordinary on an ol plain "Peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Do not say that Alaska has one. Not only do they like this classic lunch, but for students at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, a PB & J is legal. During the end of 2019, students couldRefund old parking tickets By putting in closed jars of peanut butter and / or jelly. Two 16 ounce pots are worth $ 10, and five pots would get them $ 60 in credit.

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More specifically, "Uncrustables," Smucker who are essentially peanut butter and frozen sandwiches less crust. The most ardent partisan of the state is (or was) the former Cardinals player of Arizona Justin Bethel. While playing for Arizona, hetweeted About them- "You know that I will always look for you uncrustables" -and at least oncerocked his favorite snack in bed.

Little Rock houses not a butThree production facilitateds For peanut butter skippy, and they produce 3.5 million pounds of peanut butter per week. Make a pb & j cookie or peanut butter with anything, but skippy in the Arkansas would be unthinkable, like driving around Detroit in a German car.

Are we really surprised that California that took something as simple as peanut butter and frozen sandwich and made fantasy? In Los Angeles, there is pbj.la, a restaurant that makes epicurean PB & JS.Time The promised magazine that these are not "your grandmother-peanut butter and jelly sandwiches," and with menu items like the Red Eye, which peanut butter espresso pairs with jam-we are raspberry at Black chocolate inclined to believe them. Even PB & J enthusiast leaders seek perfection. Andy Scherer, a father of five of Burbank, invented what is called peanut butter pump, a device that holds on most 40 ounce peanut butter barquets with peanut butter on breadwithout the need for a knife.

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A sandwichinvented by Gold Mine Colorado company near Denver, which consists in filling an Italian bread with an entire pot of peanut butter and an entire jelly pot, with a bacon book. It seems ... well, fill, at least. But it is liked not only from coloradeans, but also Elvis Presley, who supposedly on a private jet to Denver just to try golden bread of a fish.

You know you get fresh ice cream when you look at the window of a local ice cream store and see cows with grazing fields. It is therefore probably not surprising that ice cream is the preferred delivery source of Connecticut for peanut butter. And the selections of this state of New England will allow you to surprise you crawling peanut butter. Of mud collins (ice cream with peanut butter with bits d'oreo) toCollins creamer in Enfield to Llama Delight (chocolate covered with peanut butter cups and peanut butter swirls) toRobb Farm In the South Glastonbury, you can find yourself wanting to install roots.

Everyone can claim that they love peanut butter during Easter or Halloween; It goes with the territory. But it takes a certain zeal for creamy propagation to pretend that it is your favorite snack for the Super Bowl. A Google Trend2019 report I looked at the most popular snacks of the Super Bowl in each state and most of them were predictable:Pizza,chicken wings,buffalo chicken Soak, the usual culprits. But Delaware surprised us all by showing her enthusiasm for chocolate peanut butter cake. Hey, we want to be invited to this Super Bowl party next year.

Florida can become hot and humid enough. Fortunately, the state has the perfect solution to cool your body instantly while giving a big fifteen to your taste buds. It's called a peanut butter and jellyMilk-shakeAnd since 1989, this is part of the main attractions of Walt Disney World in Orlando. No, it's not a hyperbole. Locals and tourists herds at the50's Prime Time Café In Disney's Hollywood Studios to try one of these specialty shakes. And the park continues to improve the formula, after failing aPeanut butter and jelly style. If you do not want to travel in Florida to try one, you can also get a step by step guide fordo one at home, directly from the leader of the major time.

All you think of Jimmy Carter as President, there is no denying that the natal and descending georgia ofpeanut Farmers knew how to treat its guests for your dinner. And that meant a lot of delicious peanut soup.Rosalyn Carter Recipe Includes half a cup of smooth peanut butter and a condensation boxchicken soup. If you have an extra-strong sweet tooth, you might consider doing it with someYam Butter picked upFred's famous cacahuets, a peanut of picturesque countries is located in Helen, Georgia.

TheThe islanders swear by her, with some finding the combo "so succulent, I wanted practically using it as a moisturizer and rub alone." An interesting idea, but we personally recommend keeping this peanut butter from your skin and putting it between two slices of bread, where it belongs. O, r if you feel more ambitious, use it in the kitchen to cook someMacaroons with peanut butter.

What is better with peanut butter than ...potatoes? We were more likely when we saw the Idaho Potato commissionPromotion of peanut butter crackers, a snack that combines peanut butter and mashed potatoes, such as "Perfect snack after school". And that does not end there. Idahoans are not as shy to dig in somePB & J FriesFries are filled with peanuts and served with a potato-based dip - andOld old potato candies, which has been a delicacy of Idaho since the era of depression.

In Chicago, people very seriously take peanut butter and jelly. It's not just a quick lunch for school kids, but something for adults with a sophisticated mouth. Like aChicago Tribune writerPut theThey demand a sandwich with "best bread, organic peanut butter, (and) artisan jelly or jam. Place the table with China, money and crystal and exchange the child's grape juice for a real fruit of the vine, wine. " In southern Illinois, PB & JS are so venerated that high school students are providedUnlimited Free Sandwiches during class hours all day.

Reese peanut butter cups can attract attention in the rest of the country, but in Indiana, they prefer parts on cups. Or at least according to aUnsuccessful survey, which found that the Hoosier state confirms its peanut butter snacks e.t.-style. And speaking, we find that we find in a blatant way that Steven Spielberg's extraterrestrial film was located in California and not in Indiana, especially if the pieces of Reese were going to be an important plot. Do your research, Mr. Spielberg!

There are69 different foods You can eat on a stick at the Annual Fair of the Iowa State, including Bologna, corn dogs, cotton cut and carmel apples. But one of the most popular, if only because it's so wonderfully strange, it's deep peanut butter and jelly on a stick. Senator Cory Booker in New Jersey, who visited last year and tried the PB & J on a stick for the very first time. It just took him a bite before ordering another. Like himtold reporters, "It's a small slice of sky."

Kansans are not going to just love peanut butter, they are safe enoughthey invented it. That's why, when it comes to peanut butter recipes, simple is always better. You do not want to hide all this flavor with a bunch of fancy cityJams and frozen. That's why peanut butter leaves cake is the number one choice of hard Kansas farmers. Our favorite recipe comes from the cookbookField meal, that the author of Kansas Born-and-Lifted goes on the secrets of cake with peanut leaves of his grandmother.

Everybody ofNew York Times writers-What remember that the recipe is always made withJif and makes a good "peace offering" -Lexington Herald-Leader Readers always remember to make Fudge of peanut butter in a world before the candy thermometer and microwave ovens - have weak memories of Kentucky's most delicious contribution to the culinary arts (apart from the Fried chicken and paid pie).

New Orleans can be famous for their Jambalaya, Gumbo and Po-Boys, but peanut butter lovers know that nothing looks more like a night in the French quarter than a peanut butter and jelly donut. For the ininity, a donut is essentially a French donut covered with iced sugar and hot served. You can find them everywhere in the state, but we have a weak forThe authentic pralines of Lorettawhere the bakery makes peanut butter donuts that will do it, according toLocal criticism, "Blow your taste buds."

Is it a cake or cookie? A sandwich or pie? That's all the above and more. The whoopie pie was not born in Maine - the original recipe belongs to the Amish of the Western Pennsylvania - but it was a huge seller in the state of pines since 1925, when it was introduced for the first timesLabadie's Bakery At Lewiston, Maine. The inhabitants so want it to have become theTreatment of the official state of Maine. Although it happens in a few other flavors, the filling of peanut butter is obviously the only sensitive choice.

Dolle's Candyland sold treats for children and adults on the Baltimore Promenade since 1910 and the Taffy salt has always been one of their most popular items. "(What) people come at the edge of the shore," Mr. Dollesay itSun of Baltimore. And the most popular flavor? According to Dolle, it's peanut butter. For each 1200 pounds, they do, at least 200 pounds of peanut.

The recipe includes two pieces of white bread, a lot of delicious peanut butter and a portion of "plush" or marshmallow bouffette, a Gooy Guimauve cream that has been manufactured in Lynn, Massachusetts since 1920. It's aNew England ClipAnd the sandwich is so adorned by the inhabitants they gave him a holiday, National Fluffernutter Day (October 8).

Michigan is proud of their apples, as they should be. With over11 million apple trees, They are the third state of apple apple production in the nation. Combine fresh Michigan apple slices with a few tablespoons of peanut butter and you officially welcome a party for a game in the mouth. We can personally recommend thatApple and peanut butter sandwich, hot and open on an English muffin.

HORMEL FOODS CORP, SPAM manufacturers, is based in Austin, Minnesota, so probably not surprising why the inhabitants would have a penchant for this combo. Also, Hormelbought the skippy brandIn 2013, for a cool of $ 700 million, so a matter of time before we all add spam to our PB & JS. Even critics go around. "You will be surprised, you may be shocked - how much spam goes with peanut butter and jelly," said theA V. Club. "Try it once, and you will try a hundred times more."

The traditional recipe is only chocolate, but state peanut butter lovers were not about to let chocolate get a full property of this Mississippi pillar. The name comes from the sticky interior, which can be a mess so funky looking for people reminiscent of the people of the Mississippi River. It may not have its appetizer, but you will change your mind once you dig in a slice of chocolate, marshmallows, pecans and creamy peanut butter. It would be a catastrophe of the EPA anywhere, but on your plate.

A hamburger covered with peanut butter was first imagined in the existence at the Wheel Inn, a burger attached just outside the city of Kansas. They called him the Guberburger and he came with all the usual-mayo burning fillings, lettuce, tomato - with a surprising addition: peanut butter. The wheel Inn has long disappeared, but asGastro said: "Local joints took on themselves to keep the heritage living."

Were the cookboy technically invented cookies in Texas? It isquestionable. But they becameFavorite Cookie from Montana, and although the original recipe did not include peanut butter, real cookies cookies, the aficionados begin to move.Recipe afterRecipe Put the front of peanut butter and the center, and just make us forget to charge our stool with a dozen and get up to the great country of Sky.

These traditional Czech pastries, brought by immigrants to Nebraska, are baked rollers with a soft filling, such as chocolate, jelly or everything you would find in a pie. Obviously, peanut butter is the only sound choice you will discover in bakeries and homes at home through the state. Verdigre, Nebraska, a city of about 500 called the "Kolach capital of the world", welcomes a summer festival calledKolach days This includes parades, polka and a restaurant contest in Kolach that will let you feel bloated and satisfied.

One of the advantages of Las Vegas visit is theCasino buffetswhere you can get your filling pretty much anyone. And this includes a truly amazing selection of peanut butter desserts and snacks, heartbeat truffles atBally Cookies with peanut butter atMirage. The house always wins, but not when it comes to the amount of peanut butter, you can consume in one session.

Leave it in New Hampshire to make the rest of us. GLOULOUT TRAILS. According toThe cookbook of the new Hampshire KidA preferred peanut butter snack among cool cool kids children is called a PORTSMOUTH peanut butter log. (Portsmouth is a northeast city New Hampshire.) The recipe involves the spread of peanut butter "in the withdrawal part of the celery (a)." Then press the raisins and grated carrots in peanut butter. It seems really delicious and like bonus, you probably do not run into a sugar coma for the rest of the day. Bravo, New Hampshire!

The state of the garden does not rigid when it comes to their love of Reese. They created things likeCup of cacahuet butter hummus and thePeanut-Tini of Reese, a cup of reese peanut butter served as a martini. They systematically vote for that in the polls liketheir favorite candies. They even have a peanut butter butter bandit, a 38-year-old Newark man who stole the same 7 eleven three times,Fly only Reese peanut butter cups, before finally getting caught and sent in prison for seven years. Think about this: You could be seven years old for stole the Reese in New Jersey.

"New Mexicans like to make desserts with nuts", wrote the author ofThe best of new Mexico cuisines. The most fucking example of the mouth is a "awarded" delight called peanut coconut pie, made with locally grown Valencia peanuts and a peanut butter crust. Honestly, we were probably going to eat well just the pie crust.

It's hard to get more than two New Yorkers agreeing anything, but here's something they all agree, it's a fundamental truth: the best article sold to the trader Joe's-Yes The grocery chain - is a cup of dark chocolate chocolate butter. We do not want to say the best dessert. We hear the best thing that was sold at Trader Joe's, in the opinion of the majority of New Yorkers. It dependsdata compiled by the store itself, which has published a complete list of Fav Foods of all fifty states. Well played, New York.

Ask someone who grew up in North Carolina if they ate peanut butter sandwiches and mayonnaise, and be ready to hear nostalgic stories of idyllic childhood. North Carolina Native Jodie Pottorff Mullsay itToday spectacle She had a Samever Saturday for lunch after the grocery store, adding that "special treatment was to add bananas as well as Mayo". As the food writer of North Carolina Sheri Castletold HuffPostThe concoction had its origins in the Great Depression, when grocery stores were rare. "You make a sandwich of what you have," she says. "Then people started doing them on purpose, then they nourished them to other people. That's how things spread."

First introduced into the world by the widman candy shop in Grand Forks, North Dakota, "Capes" - a thick potato chip covered with chocolate or peanut butter - has been a local source of pride (and smiles Very satisfied) for several generations. . Owner George W. Widman,Who invented the CAPs And worked in the family business all his life (their first store opened in 1885), once claimed to have the idea of ​​a woman of a potato farmer.

The buckeyes are bowls of peanut butter and powdered sugar rolled in a paste and dive into melted chocolate. Although many states are calling for this dessert as their own, the name comes from itsWalnut resemblance From an Ohio Buckeye tree, the Ohio state tree. So, while the rest of the world is welcome to appreciate them, they are also Midwest as a peanut butter snack. Ohio State University also has a sports mascot named Brutus buckeye whoseThe head looks like the nut... or candy, we are not sure.

If you get the hankering for a fried pie filled with hot chocolate and peanut butter, made with the exact recipe used in the 1800s to keep the cowboys hot in the Hats Oklahoma winters, there is really only. Only one place to go:Arbuckle Mountain Thin Fries, just after US-77 in Davis, Oklahoma. It is always a business in family management and these pies are as well-loved by Oklahoma's natives today as with their cowboy ancestors. As a satisfied customer writes french fries with peanut butter, they are"Ooey Gooey Messy." It sounds like a rave for us.

Portland Peanut Butter Contractor Keeley Tillotson, whose activity of peanut butter wassnatch by aShark aquarium Investor in 2012, saysSite of his company That she and her co-founder have launched the business because they "loved eating peanut butter out of the pot." It's just something you do when in Oregon. ESPN DIFFUSTER BILL WALTON discovered that duringA basketball game of Oregon College, where he devoured an entire pot of peanut butter using only his fingers and declared: "I like peanut butter!"

"It's a kind of regional thing," a Candy store owner based on PennsylvaniaRecountViolence On peanut butter eggs. "It's the Dutch thing of Pennsylvania." A succulent combo of creamy peanut butter (the egg ") covered with melted chocolate is technically a treat for Easter, but any Pennsylvanian who says they do not take advantage of an occasional peanut butter egg during the rest of the Year probably do not say the whole truth.

Rhode Island undergoes "a real bean of the Renaissance"According to the coffee website. And peanut butter flavors high the list of local favorites. Even when a new providence bakery announces their opening, because the pvdonutes are back in 2016, the inhabitants go a little crazy. Like aProvidence Journal Asked the writer, "Why do we teases donuts with peanut butter and jelly that we could not seem to have?"

Of course, other states have their assistance of peanut butter and jelly. But the scale of most of the most PB & JS does not necessarily make you a connoisseur of the largest sandwich of modern culture. In South Carolina, they havePeanut and jelly butter competition. This is not how much you put in your mouth, but how much you eliminate peanut butter and if your jam with peanut butter ratio is aesthetically perfect. Now that's what we call Devotion Pb & J!

The recipe for a Scotcheroos appeared for the first time on a Krispies rice box during the 60s, although no one remembers what the name was supposed to mean. They were essentially squares of Krispie rice covered with peanut butter and chocolate icing. But over the years, the recipe has been refined and embellished, some insisting they must be made with corn chips like fritos. But they remain one of the great comforting foods of the state, a snack that the moms of South Dakota send to theirson of the country of the country, or long duration Dakota friendsShare after a duvet club meeting.

Otherwise known as "The Fat Elvis" -yah, we think the name is a bit significant too - it was inspired byThe favorite sandwich of the end of Presley. The recipe is so simple, anyone who can do it: Take two pieces of white bread, cover them with generous portions of peanut butter and puree bananas, then smoosh the bread together. (Grilling is optional.) If you want to taste one of these iconic sandwiches on your next Tennessee tour, you will not have to look away. TheSun Diner in Nashville and theArcade Restaurant in Memphis are just the two most famous places to get an Elvis meal.

Everything is greater in Texas, and this apparently includes their peanut butter snacks. Candystore.com, a navigating candy business deals in bulk around the country,Published statistics On which states have the greatest appetite for some brand candies. Between 2007 and 2015, Texas bought nearly two million pounds of Reese peanut butter cups. To put this into perspective, the consumer of the second time Enthusiastic of Reese, North Carolina, has only consumed 104 940 pounds of Reese during the same period, especially because all that left after the Texas has been completed.

"If you were still a primary school in Utah,"says a food blogger, "You will know these bars well." For the rest of us, we apparently do not know what we missed. These delicious bars, with a creamy filling with peanut butter and a chocolate butter on the top, were handed over by the Midi Ladies cafeteria across the Utah and became part of the dessert mythology. As a Utah student wrote on the dessert clipin theUtah stateman, "The only thing you will regret making these bars eaten it all."

Come on, you can not be surprised by that. Vermont is the country of Ben & Jerry. Their ice cream is not just a dessert, they are a choice of lifestyle. When they introduced half-cooked peanut butter in 2014 as a limited version, theHuffington position declared That "it can encourage you to move peanut butter in all your ice cream from now on. The worst things have arrived." It was so popular that the company recently promoted him to a "Full-time flavor. "

The legend started at theVirginie diner in Wakefield, where the "World-Campaign" (Under the menu) Virginia's peanut tart is available through the slice (or total pie) since 1929, attracting hungry clients of the state wishing to stimulate their sweet tooth. The secret came out, and now even non-virginians venture to dinner. Some even try to recreate the recipe at home, includingMartha Stewart.

Metropolitan Seattle magazineonce claimed That "the attachment of PB and J Cupcake" had "taken this city by his shoulders and gave him a good shake." The fixation lives in local bakeries like the royal cupcake, which sells a peanut butter butter cupcake called aPeanutor atTrophy Cupcakes, which has more peanut butter cupcake than a human stomach can handle. We do not drove, you drool!

They were called "Virginia WesternSignature dessert " speakCharleston Gazette-Mail, and we can understand why. Sometimes called "no-cook cookies", "preacher cookies" or "cow patios" (how ... appetizing), the ingredients include oats, butter, brown sugar and a lot of peanut butter . There are many online recipes, Natives from Western Virginia who loveGossip childhoodPast Munoton these delicious confections.

The largest peanut butter and jelly butter store (at leastAccording to the owners) Is located in a suburb of Milwaukee, where guests can choose from hundreds of jams and different jelly options. We admire their devotion and creativity. All looks delicious, but we will probably go to the jelly of tomato.

A 2019 social media survey revealed that Wyoming'sfavorite condimentIs not it other than skippy peanut butter. Or more precisely, the Skippy Super Chunky peanut butter. This may seem extremely extracted: how could the peanut butter compete with a condiment like ketchup or mustard? - But we will certainly not be able to challenge them. Anyone who wants to put peanut butter on a steak or omelette is correct in our book.

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