Peanut butter - sweet or savoury

[BadgerBrush]

So, my wife once said that she fancied a savory snack - what's in the house? I suggested some peanut butter on toast, and she'd looked at me like I was a crazy fool. She said peanut butter was definitely sweet. A (not serious) argument ensued, with neither of us being able to settle. This happened about 10 years ago, but the battle still rages.

So - do you consider peanut butter on toast a sweet or savory snack? (Please hurry, my wife is hungry!)

Peanut = savoury
Butter = savoury
Ergo peanut butter is savoury!

Tell your wife she's being U and get a divorce!

Savoury

Savoury. Jam is sweet. Chocolate spread is sweet....

But it's salty! So has to be savoury. She's BVU to turn down an offer of peanut butter on toast when she's hungry. I now want some.

Savoury definitely, I agree, divorce

Peanuts have a sweet taste and peanut butter often has sugar added so I'm with your wife.

Depends on how much sugar is in it. I buy the stuff with no sugar so it is savoury.

American style peanut butter has sugar added, while (I think) British versions are more likely to just have salt. So depends on the peanut butter!

Also, peanut butter has nothing to do with butter!

Depends on the brand. Cheaper PB is definitely sweet, it has far too much sugar to be considered savoury.

Ooh, having said that, you might not taste it the same way - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase - if you don't produce as much amylase in your saliva, things won't taste as sweet

It depends how you use it.

On its own, savoury.

I'm interested to learn that salted caramel is savoury ;)

It's both. Spread over apple slices? Sweet. Added to Thai food in sauce? Savoury. Spread on toast? Something inbetween.

Yep, depends on the peanut butter. We buy the savoury type with no sugar added, but some stuff has sugar so that would be sweet.

Savoury ! Unless it’s accompanied with banana and jam and then it’s sweet hmmmmm delicious

Savoury - I buy the organic non-sugary stuff. I don't like the sun pat style.

I think it can be either, but I lean towards sweet since I’d happily put it with chocolate, jam or banana but I would never combine it with a savoury flavour like cheese or marmite.

Both. Peanut butter with jam on toast and satay made from the same jar proves it surely.

Oh that’s true Backseat how could I forget about satay?! And I love carrot sticks dipped in peanut butter with sriacha too.

Ok, that settles it. It’s both.

bangs gavel

Oh but peanut butter and marmite is the king of all toast toppings! At least for me - DH says it's the work of Satan

It's both. Peanuts are both. Butter us used in both. Together they are still both, it just depends how you use it!

I'd say more sweet than savoury.

Also the work of the devil.

Be a man and get the woman a pork pie.

Depends on the brand. Some have much added sugar, so would be regarded as sweet. Others have none, so are savoury. There was a time she you could only get unsweetened in health food shops but now it's available in all supermarkets. Just read the label, but don't suppose you've kept it after 10 years!

Savoury. Whole earth or meridian are, anyway. Even with sliced apples.

Has your wife been waiting 10 years for her snack??? It's savoury. Now quick,feed the woman!