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And being US-centric means a lot of the choices a quite gross and really unappealing for people in other countries. Buttered toast? Peanut butter and honey? Yuck, I'd rather not eat at all.

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>Yuck, I'd rather not eat at all.

Wow...that reads like the stereotypical Western child when asked to eat healthy food. However, I don't think I have ever heard even a child say yuck to buttered toast or a peanut butter and honey sandwich.

Once upon a time I might eat either of those things before running half or full marathons...no longer as I avoid bread/carbs/sugar and prefer running in ketosis. I'll say this though, if your fueled by glucose those are both very light meals that will give you great amounts of energy without major insulin spikes (not much in the way of micro nutrients though).

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You have that much disdain for... butter on toast? Where are you from exactly? Mars?

You don't like buttered toast?

It's a good meal if one is still in middle school...

For most countries it's something you snack with a coffee or tea, not a meal.

I've never heard of that being considered an entire meal America either.

I was going to say this. Wow people believe we think buttered toast is a meal. Isnt the goal to eat less with this site? I would say buttered toast pushed some hunger buttons.

It depends on the proximity of large unplanned cash outlays to payday.

It's not a meal anywhere, not sure where you got that idea.

From the "Automatic MEAL planner" suggesting it as a meal...

That is super goofy, but I promise you, no one in the US thinks it is either.

I love buttered toast, in the same way that I love candy floss. It's not exactly a 'meal'.

In France the « Jambon beurre » sandwich is (was?) one of the most eated meal and is baguette + butter + ham. Also personally I’m fit and I eat a lot of buttered bread with added cheese everyday. I have the chance to have artisan bread and raw milk cheese available everywhere though. Honey everyday too (in tea and in yogurts).

I've never heard of peanut butter and honey, must be a regional thing.

I'm pretty sure it's a Great Plains thing. I grew up on it, but most everyone I know has never heard of it.

I will say that it's only delicious if you use typical American heavily salted peanut butter. Canadians should not try this with anything but Kraft unless they are feeling dangerously happy and are in need of a quick day-ruiner.

It's perfectly fine with natural peanut butter too - you can always add salt onto the peanut butter.

Also had it up here in BC (Canada). But we used to put bananas on it.

Honey, Peanut Butter and Bananas....10 year old me loved that. I could not fathom eating that today!

y, it was a standard school lunch here in the midwest at my school. Chilli, peanut butter and honey sandwich and dill pickle slices were on the tray. So I still eat peanut butter and honey sandwiches, they are great. I also dip a peanut butter and honey sandwich into my chilli (add some hot sauce first), before adding dill pickles and crackers to the chilli, just like at school.

You're missing out. Peanut butter and honey sandwiches are amazing.

For context, I grew up in a wide mix of central and eastern USA.

No thanks, I very much don't like peanut butter on sandwiches/bread/toast. The thought of peanut butter on bread makes me wanna gag, it doesn't taste good and the texture is unbearable.

How else would you use peanut butter? Cookies? Chocolates?

I don't really like peanut butter on cookies or chocolate either. Really the only peanut application I like is Asian peanut sauce, and I really love that.

Everyone knows it's best eaten with a spoon.

About 2 hours after you should have been asleep, with only the fridge for light.

yes and yes

Cookies: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/9148NkRCVlL...

Chocolates: http://nibblesnscribbles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Cadb...

you can actually use peanut butter in almost any sweet:

- ice cream - pie - cupcakes - cakes - ...

it's very versatile

With a spoon straight out of the jar.

With a spoon, straight from the jar.

Peanut butter burgers is amazing.

I had the same reaction reading this post.

I selected keto and it suggested an arugula salad for lunch that had 61 calories, no thanks!

Are you a commie, not liking buttered toast, what world am I living in here?

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