10 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Are you really that daft? Steak has less calories and a better nutrient content.

So basically steak is nearly 3x superior to peanut butter.

You are the winner, Rockyroad, I am defeated.

Multiple posts removed including back and forth trolling, personal attacks and bickering.

I know my mother-in-law and wife like peanuts. We sometimes bring a bag over when we visit Thailand.

On 6/7/2026 at 7:38 AM, fredwiggy said:

I like Pic's crunchy style, Dalfours Strawberry (or others) Jelly and Sprouted Grain bread in the mornings. Healthy and filling.

Healthy and filling, as are my home-made choices. And MUCH cheaper.

16 hours ago, Bohemianfish said:

I know my mother-in-law and wife like peanuts. We sometimes bring a bag over when we visit Thailand.

You mean you actually put peanuts in your baggage. Completely illegal and pointless.

On 6/7/2026 at 1:52 PM, KhunLA said:

And them Makro Peanuts, up ฿5, though first price hike in years.

500gm for Bht 55 or 2kg for Bht 505?

Oh, the 2kg are split, the 500gm are not.

59 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

500gm for Bht 55 or 2kg for Bht 505?

Oh, the 2kg are split, the 500gm are not.

peanuts vs cashew

4 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

peanuts vs cashew

Sorry, mincers getting a bit dodgy. 555

I shall stick with peanuts.

I am so surprised that one of the mods has not corrected the Headline.

11 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

I am so surprised that one of the mods has not corrected the Headline.

To what? “Do You Oddly Eat Peanut Butter in Thailand?”

9 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

I am so surprised that one of the mods has not corrected the Headline.

There is nothing to correct. This is a modern, stylized form of English. “Do you even…?” is a well established piece of internet and pop culture vernacular in which part of the phrase is intentionally omitted for effect. It works like this:

Do you even eat peanut butter?

Do you even speak English?

The construction is intentionally informal and rhetorical, not grammatically incomplete by mistake.

1 hour ago, wil iam not said:

You mean you actually put peanuts in your baggage. Completely illegal and pointless.

Almonds must be legal to carry in baggage, never been bothered about it.

First world problems.

6 hours ago, BilllyGOAT said:

There is nothing to correct. This is a modern, stylized form of English. “Do you even…?” is a well established piece of internet and pop culture vernacular in which part of the phrase is intentionally omitted for effect. It works like this:

Do you even eat peanut butter?

Do you even speak English?

The construction is intentionally informal and rhetorical, not grammatically incomplete by mistake.

Geez and here I was thinking it was the verb "to even"…

5 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

Geez and here I was thinking it was the verb "to even"…

More uses of it here:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=do+you+even

31 minutes ago, BilllyGOAT said:

More uses of it here:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=do+you+even

Yeah, I'm actually aware of it, but hadn't interpreted the OP title that way.

11 hours ago, wil iam not said:

Healthy and filling, as are my home-made choices. And MUCH cheaper.

But are they Aflatoxin safe?

I just got a container of Kanomjompalang brand peanut butter that I think is very worthwhile. 100% natural, nothing added.

The balance of taste, freshness and creaminess is the best I've found so far and it's lower cost than many of the others. A 500 gram plastic container costs around ฿160 on Shopee. You can find it on Lazada too. Just search by that name. Many shops offering it.

On 6/7/2026 at 6:06 PM, rattlesnake said:

Google "benefits of peanuts".

Not the best form of query to learn about peanuts. Better to ask Google: "what is the nutritional value of peanuts" or "compare the nutritional value of peanuts to beef steak"

Best not to include terms like "benefits" in your query that may bias the result.

3 hours ago, gamb00ler said:

Not the best form of query to learn about peanuts. Better to ask Google: "what is the nutritional value of peanuts" or "compare the nutritional value of peanuts to beef steak"

Best not to include terms like "benefits" in your query that may bias the result.

I agree with that regarding AI queries, if you want a detailed breakdown.

But if you're doing old fashioned googling, "benefits of [insert item]" is a good way to find web pages such as this one:

Peanuts 101: Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits

Peanuts provide protein, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. They may have other health benefits, including promoting fullness and helping protect against heart disease.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/peanuts

Just got a jar of Happy Mate peanut butter, peanuts locally grown in Thailand, no added sugar or oils.

Tastes very nice too.

2 hours ago, rattlesnake said:

They may have other health benefits, including promoting fullness

How does one 'promote fullness'. Or is that another way of saying that peanuts make you fat?

10 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

How does one 'promote fullness'. Or is that another way of saying that peanuts make you fat?

It means their high nutritional value offers long-lasting satiety, therefore you eat less overall (unlike carbs which have the opposite effect). Peanuts will not lead to unhealthy weight gain if one has a functional metabolism. Kind of like chocolate, which many people believe causes weight gain. Good quality dark chocolate (with no added sugar) does not, the number of calories is secondary.

23 hours ago, novacova said:

To what? “Do You Oddly Eat Peanut Butter in Thailand?”

If you read it carefully, you may notice that the word EAT is missing.

Billy GOAT offers an explanation, but I think he is making it up.

Edited June 9Jun 9 by wil iam not

4 hours ago, rattlesnake said:

But if you're doing old fashioned googling, "benefits of [insert item]" is a good way to find web pages such as this one:

It will still lead to a biased set of results if you use a search term with either a positive or negative connotation. The stronger the connotation the more biased the results. The greater the degree polarization in the raw data, the stronger the bias will be in the results.

In fact, I believe that a straight google search using biased terms in the query will yield results that are more biased than if performed as an AI query. AI query processing includes more context from the query than a simple web search does. The extra context considered by the AI will often dilute the effect of the biased search term. Web searches often discard some words from the query that are considered to be of low importance.

Edited June 9Jun 9 by gamb00ler

1 hour ago, wil iam not said:

If you read it carefully, you may notice that the word EAT is missing.

Billy GOAT offers an explanation, but I think he is making it up.

Making what up? I provided a link to Urban Dictionary where it is well explained using the example "Do you even English". Here is the link again:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=do+you+even

Also, here is a good explanation from Gemini with some history on how and when it evolved:

The phrase "Do you even [Noun]?" is a deliberate grammatical shortcut that evolved from the 2010s internet meme, "Do you even lift?" In standard English, dropping the verb creates a glaring grammatical void, but here, the missing verb is the entire point. By leaving it out, the speaker is jokingly implying that the activity is so fundamental to the noun that stating the verb shouldn't even be necessary. For example, "Do you even English?" translates to "Do you even speak English?" while "Do you even peanut butter?" means "Do you even eat peanut butter?"

Essentially, it is a piece of modern American slang used for comedic exaggeration or lighthearted gatekeeping. Instead of being a literal or grammatically correct question, it functions as a playful way to question someone's basic competence, familiarity, or passion regarding a specific subject. It relies entirely on the listener using shared cultural context to instantly fill in the blank.

1 hour ago, wil iam not said:

If you read it carefully, you may notice that the word EAT is missing.

Billy GOAT offers an explanation, but I think he is making it up.

Do you even funny? I’m sure you do, though I don’t expect you to get me.

20 minutes ago, BilllyGOAT said:

"Do you even English".

It might be a case of ye olde English.

15 hours ago, Kyoto Kyle said:

I just got a container of Kanomjompalang brand peanut butter that I think is very worthwhile. 100% natural, nothing added.

The balance of taste, freshness and creaminess is the best I've found so far and it's lower cost than many of the others. A 500 gram plastic container costs around ฿160 on Shopee. You can find it on Lazada too. Just search by that name. Many shops offering it.

I have found this Thai natural PB in several Rimping in Chiang Mai and also at YOK. It reminds me of Adam's from the USA.

I've always found it on the very lowest shelf near other PB's in Rimping. Available in creamy and crunchy... the creamy still has very small chunks in it.

Edited June 9Jun 9 by gamb00ler

On 6/6/2026 at 9:37 PM, Kyoto Kyle said:

I know this is technically a food topic, but it is really more of a rant.

Years ago, a friend of mine told me that the taste of peanuts in Thailand are unacceptable. At the time I thought he was exaggerating. I eat peanuts occasionally when in Thailand myself. They are a decent source of protein and I quite like them. The local brand Koh Kae roasted and salted peanuts are good value and perfectly enjoyable as far as healthy snack foods go. A bit crunchy and brittle sometimes, but still not bad.

Fast forward to more recently where I became mildly obsessed with buying jars of natural peanut butter from supermarkets while traveling overseas.

Most of it was excellent.

Creamy, smooth, rich tasting, and somehow still soft and spreadable even after being refrigerated. Most of the brands contained nothing except peanuts, with no salt added. After a bit of experimentation I found that adding around 1.5 grams of salt per 100 grams of peanut butter was the sweet spot. Every time I bought a jar I would weigh out the right amount of salt, stir it in while the peanut butter was still at room temperature, stick it in the fridge, and end up with what I considered near peanut butter perfection.

Now onto Thailand.

The supermarket options here seemed fairly uninspiring. Most of the shelf space appears dedicated to heavily processed peanut butter products containing sugar, oils, stabilisers, emulsifiers, preservatives, and possibly components from a small space programme.

I am only interested in natural peanut butter, and the supermarkets usually have only one or two brands of that variety, often imported and fairly expensive.

So I ordered five different locally made brands online from small manufacturers. All claimed to be 100% peanuts. All claimed to be creamy. All claimed to be wonderful.

To be fair, they were definitely made from peanuts.

Beyond that, things started going downhill.

I added the same salt ratio to each jar and mixed them thoroughly. Not one of them could honestly be described as creamy. One was vaguely acceptable. The rest ranged from dry to what I can only describe as edible construction material.

After refrigeration several of them turned into something with roughly the consistency of reinforced concrete. So locally grown peanuts are likely lacking in peanut oil.

The flavour was also disappointing.

Almost all had a slightly burnt taste to them. None had that fresh, naturally sweet peanut flavour I had become used to elsewhere. Two jars went straight into the bin. One was acceptable enough to finish. The remaining two are still sitting in the fridge waiting for me to lower my standards.

The whole experiment has actually made me reconsider what my friend said years ago.

I am starting to think the issue may not be the peanut butter manufacturers at all.

It may be the peanuts.

Five different brands, all using different production methods, and yet all ending up with roughly the same disappointing flavor profile starts to point the finger at the raw ingredient itself.

Of course, I could always buy one of those expensive peanut grinding machines and make my own smooth peanut butter in Thailand. But if the peanuts themselves are the problem, then all I would really be doing is producing my own disappointing peanut butter more efficiently.

Also, I do not eat peanut butter on bread.

I quite enjoy eating peanut butter straight from a spoon as a snack. That way there is nothing else influencing the flavor, unlike eating it on bread where the taste can be altered or improved somewhat by whatever bread you are putting it on. That's how I'm certain that the peanut taste is an issue.

One final point that may shock some people. And before anybody calls the authorities, I would also point out that peanut butter on chicken is absolutely delicious.

If that sounds strange, remember that chicken satay is basically chicken covered in peanut sauce and half the country seems perfectly happy with that arrangement.

So perhaps the real question here is not whether peanut butter belongs on chicken.

It is whether Thailand secretly produces the world’s least inspiring peanuts and nobody told me.

I like spreading it on ice cold Celery, dunno where I got that habit, but it is good!! I experimented in US with a few “Nut Butters” they became paste for bird feeders, not a one tasted near as good as my Natural Peanut Butter. and I like the idea of adding a little salt to the mix.