Is It Just Me, or Is Peanut Butter Everywhere?
A question to ponder.
Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on Jun 02, 2010 at 09:00AM
2 Comments
About a month ago, I encountered a peanut butter bacon burger on the menu at that newish Ballard joint, Hamburger Harry’s. Didn’t order it.
A couple of weeks ago, I saw that Homegrown, that sandwich place in Fremont, had something called the Bluffernutter on its menu. Zoe’s bacon, housemade marshmallow fluff, and crunchy peanut butter—all grilled up. Really didn’t order it.
Then last week, the piece de resistance, at the new lunch-brunch sensation Nettletown. A peanut butter and turmeric salmon sandwich.
WHAT IS HAPPENING?? I cried out to the universe. And I ordered it.
It was stunning, the peanut butter going all Thai-peanut-sauce on the fish, helped along in its Asian endeavors by copious amounts of cilantro and garlic and crispy pickled vegetables.
Don’t know what’s up with the peanut butter fetishism in full display around town. But in at least one place it’s making me very happy indeed.
Tags: Trends, Peanut butter
I find this new trend alarming and offensive. It is blatantly insensitive of these establishments not to consider the millions of Americans struggling with peanut allergies on a daily basis.
While I take care to avoid peanuts myself and choose not to patronize establishments which flagrantly use the goober, this is not enough. Often when a restaurant offers peanut products, those products will spread to other foods, resulting in second hand peanut exposure.
Our government needs to protect us from this and all dangers with a variety of laws designed to cater to specific parties. Please join me in a law to ban the use or consumption of peanut butter products within a food service establishment or 25 feet from the door of a food service establishment.
HA! Good one, Frank!