WINNER & RESULT ANNOUNCED!! 50/50 FOH's Weekly Poll Comp: #7

[alloy]

Smooth, crunchy only if necessary.

[MD Puffer]

Smooth here. Surprised again at how close they are. 

I have a couple of peanut butter sandwich technices I’d like to share. 

The first, I “originated” in college (I have no doubt this has been independently discovered by others).  

You take equal parts peanut butter and jelly (grape is my favorite) in a small mixing bowl and whisk them together and spread the mixture onto your sandwich bread.  This is the technique I use for my boy who likes to separate the two pieces of bread and selective eat the jelly.

The othe is to butter one side of bread completely, and then spread peanut butter on just the periphery of the other slice.  Then jelly in the middle. When sandwiched together, it seals in the jelly and prevents it from being squished out.  

I make too many meals out of PB&J.  And tater tots and chicken nuggets.  Without them, I would be a failure at parenting.

[MoeFOH]

1 hour ago, Ken Gargett said:

i found it - please ignore if of no interest.

No. That piece should be of interest to everyone - great laugh! 

[Thirds]

I’m 40 years old and no one can convince me there’s a more balanced sandwich than a PB&J: gotta be grape jelly and SMOOTH Peter Pan on Wonder white bread.  It’s the perfect sandwich. 

[Hollywood Ninja]

Smoooooooth

[Islandboy]

As with cigars, I like a little mongrel in my peanut butter. Always crunchy, never smooth.

[nKostyan]

This is a product not of my region, never tried.

[Burningman]

Loved crunchy as a child. I now prefer smooth. Nothing like warm toasted bread with peanut butter paired with black coffee. ☕

[Fuzz]

4 hours ago, Thirds said:

I’m 40 years old and no one can convince me there’s a more balanced sandwich than a PB&J: gotta be grape jelly and SMOOTH Peter Pan on Wonder white bread.  It’s the perfect sandwich. 

Try peanut butter with Nutella.

[David88]

It has to be crunchy for me. Interesting to see that the poll is exactly 50/50 at the moment

[MooseAMuffin]

Gotta be crunchy. The texture makes it better.

My perfect PBJ is toasted white bread, crunchy peanut butter and strawberry jelly.

[PrairieSmoke]

I rarely eat peanut butter, but if I had to pick at this point in my life it would be crunchy! 

[Colt45]

Teddie brand unsalted chunky. Don't mind the smooth either.

[GrouchoMarx]

Peanut butter has 10-foot-pole marks all over it.

It should be illegal. Blech

[BarryVT]

Kinda like that extra crunch with my peanut butter!

[Pommy Puffer]

Crunchy.  But too dry for me these days, so I get the oiliest one I can get my grubby little hands on.  Skippy smooth.

[Artin]

Very, very hard question.

I ended up choosing smooth. BUT, I do like it crunchy, and if I were to choose crunchy, I would prefer a light crunch rather than a chunky crunch.

 

[MountainMilG]

Smooth.  But it's close here, pretty much 50/50 so far.  I've always been a smooth guy, and my family has always been Jif people

[unclepauly25]

Sometimes I like a spoonful of creamy peanut butter before a workout just to have something in my stomach. I’ve heard about vegimite, I don’t think I’ve seen it in the US, I’d give it a try, I heard Australians love it, what’s it taste like?

[Thirds]

13 hours ago, Fuzz said:

Try peanut butter with Nutella.

That should be illegal.  It never occurred to me to combine them. I may stand corrected. 

[Stump89]

Smooth. Crunchy reminds me of chewing up a bunch of peanuts and then spitting them back out onto whatever your medium of choice is. Disgusting. 

[Ken Gargett]

while on the topic of peanut butter, david slays goliath. 

the judge is one of my best mates (if i ever end up in court, i have photos!!!). 

 

Bega wins battle with Kraft over duelling peanut butter jars

By Darren Gray

May 1, 2019 — 11.28am

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Australian manufacturer Bega has won a legal stoush with American food giant Kraft over the use of distinctive yellow packaging for its important peanut butter range.

Wednesday's Federal Court ruling is a big victory for Bega which has targeted the ten of millions of dollars Australians spend on peanut butter as it aims to become a "great Australian food company".

 

Kraft had accused Bega of engaging in misleading or deceptive conduct over the marketing of its peanut butter.Credit:Bloomberg

The principal dispute in the complex case centred on who owned the "peanut butter trade dress", currently used by both brands.

Trade dress is considered an important identifier of a product, operating like a trade mark, and in this case was agreed to be: "a jar with a yellow lid and a yellow label with a blue or red peanut device, with the jar having a brown appearance when filled".

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Both companies currently sell their peanut butter to Australian consumers in jars that are strikingly similar and in this case counter-sued one another for misleading and deceptive conduct under Australian competition and consumer law.

 

Bega is "exclusively entitled" to use the yellow lid and red and blue peanut label.

Bega, which is best known as a dairy company, got into the peanut butter business in 2017 when it bought the Kraft subsidiary Mondelez Australia (formerly called Kraft Foods Limited). Under the deal Bega acquired the peanut butter business, assets and goodwill of Mondelez.

Kraft told the court that the distinctive "peanut butter trade dress" was never Mondelez's to sell. It also said that Mondelez had a licence to use the peanut butter trade dress, but that expired at the end of 2017.

Justice David O’Callaghan concluded that Bega had acquired "all rights" to the peanut butter trade dress when it bought Mondelez.

 

Cate Nagy, a partner in the intellectual property team at King & Wood Mallesons, said the judgment was highly significant.

"Because what it does do is confirm the valuable nature of unregistered trade marks, such as trade dress... which the court has found form an inseparable part of the goodwill of a business," she said.

We look forward to continuing to produce and supply our customers with our much-loved peanut butter products.

Bega statement

Ms Nagy said the value of registered IP rights had been well recognised for a very long time, "but what this really does is underscore the valuable nature of unregistered trade marks".

Kraft said it was disappointed at the decision and was considering its options.

 

Bega's share price jumped as much as 8 per cent on the news before closing at $5.32 an increase of 5.14 per cent for the day.

In a statement Bega said: "We look forward to continuing to produce and supply our customers with our much-loved peanut butter products. Bega Cheese will review the lengthy Federal Court judgment and make any necessary further announcement following this review."

Justice O'Callaghan noted that in today’s market, only peanut butter manufactured by Bega was available at major Australian supermarkets.

This is significant, because major supermarkets account for about 80 per cent of peanut butter sales in Australia.

"The major supermarkets have declined to stock the new Kraft peanut butter manufactured by the second applicant (H.J. Heinz, a subsidiary of Kraft Heinz), citing the likelihood of consumer confusion. Both products are, however, still available at smaller, independent supermarkets," Justice O’Callaghan said.

[Chucko8]

Can't get enough of peanut butter. Happy to eat either though my preference is definitely in the crunchy camp

[Justin]

Crunchy. Smooth looks too much like baby food....and poop.. 

[Lotusguy]

Where is the “none” option?