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Interests => All Things Edible (and how to prepare them) => Topic started by: FiddyBeowulf on November 03, 2011, 01:38:07 PM

Title: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on November 03, 2011, 01:38:07 PM: Quote
J.M. Smucker, maker of the popular Jif peanut butter, will hike prices almost 30% starting November 8, as this year's peanut harvests have been the worst in decades.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11297658/1/hoard-peanut-butter-prices-soaring-on-crop-failure.html (http://www.thestreet.com/story/11297658/1/hoard-peanut-butter-prices-soaring-on-crop-failure.html) :panic:

I like peanut butter just for the simple fact that if I do not know what I want to eat I can always have a peanut butter sandwich.
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: Janice on November 03, 2011, 02:12:57 PM: Quote
Prices for a ton of runner peanuts, used to make peanut butter, touched $1,200 mid-October, compared to $450 per ton in the same month a year ago >>>

Wow, thanks for the heads up. (http://i55.tinypic.com/20f81n5.gif)
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: CG6468 on November 03, 2011, 02:20:54 PM: This warning has been out there for several months. Now it's really going public, maybe to drive up prices? :???: :shrug:
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: Wineslob on November 03, 2011, 02:25:32 PM: I'm allergic to the stuff, so I don't eat it.
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: Rugnuts on November 03, 2011, 02:27:05 PM: Quote from: Wineslob on November 03, 2011, 02:25:32 PM
I'm allergic to the stuff, so I don't eat it.
well you have to pay your fareshare anyways, stock up now!
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: Texacon on November 03, 2011, 02:44:54 PM: Aw nuts.

I hate shelling out more bucks for one of my favorite foods.

KC
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: zeitgeist on November 03, 2011, 02:55:46 PM: Quote from: FiddyBeowulf on November 03, 2011, 01:38:07 PM
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11297658/1/hoard-peanut-butter-prices-soaring-on-crop-failure.html (http://www.thestreet.com/story/11297658/1/howeard-peanut-butter-prices-soaring-on-crop-failure.html) :panic:

I like peanut butter just for the simple fact that if I do not know what I want to eat I can always have a peanut butter sandwich.

A week or two ago I doubled down on peanut butter after reading about a potential shortage. Not only do I love peanut butter, I have found it works quite well in mouse traps. I no longer let m/zeit bate traps, she uses way too much, maybe it's a just guilt thing about the last meal with her, I really don't know. :rofl:
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: Eupher on November 03, 2011, 04:19:55 PM: Quote from: Texacon on November 03, 2011, 02:44:54 PM
Aw nuts.

I hate shelling out more bucks for one of my favorite foods.

KC

Puns like that just grind me up.
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: Odin's Hand on November 03, 2011, 04:23:44 PM: I think the Texas peanut crop, brutalized by this drought, accounts for about 40% of the national production of peanuts.
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: FreeBorn on November 03, 2011, 04:38:44 PM: It's Jimmeh's fault! :-)
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: bijou on November 03, 2011, 04:41:23 PM: Quote from: Eupher on November 03, 2011, 04:19:55 PM
Puns like that just grind me up.
He's just spreading the news about this important story.
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: CG6468 on November 03, 2011, 07:32:04 PM: Quote from: Eupher on November 03, 2011, 04:19:55 PM
Puns like that just grind me up.

He's just playing the old shell game with you!
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: Texacon on November 03, 2011, 07:51:47 PM: What a bunch of goobers!

:lmao:

KC
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: SherryBaby on November 03, 2011, 08:41:06 PM: Quote from: CG6468 on November 03, 2011, 02:20:54 PM
This warning has been out there for several months. Now it's really going public, maybe to drive up prices? :???: :shrug:

Do you think there are rumor planters?
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: vesta111 on November 04, 2011, 09:28:32 AM: Quote from: SherryBaby on November 03, 2011, 08:41:06 PM
Do you think there are rumor planters?

This is not good news, Peanut oil is used in millions of products, food to cosmetics.
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: Eupher on November 04, 2011, 09:33:46 AM: Quote from: bijou on November 03, 2011, 04:41:23 PM
He's just spreading the news about this important story.

yeah, but he left some chunky bits here and there -- easy to spot the story.
Title: Re: Better Hoard Peanut Butter
Post by: CG6468 on November 04, 2011, 02:14:28 PM: Quote from: SherryBaby on November 03, 2011, 08:41:06 PM
Do you think there are rumor planters?

Dunno. I guess time will tell.