Isn't this going to affect more than just peanut butter? Peanut oil is used in a lot more applications, from frying at your local restaurant to cosmetics. A LOT of things are going to be getting more expensive, not just peanut butter.
Peanut Butter prices to skyrocket?
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Well, that's true for a lot more reasons than just peanuts. The corn crop was poor this year as well, and even more is made from corn than from peanuts.
Anytime corn takes a hit, ALL food prices go up. Basically every processed food has corn syrup in it and corn is pretty much all we feed a lot of livestock these days. Our entire economy is dependent on corn prices staying stable.
Due largely to gov't legislation. If corn wasn't propped up (or down, as the case may be) by the gov't, and if sugar imports weren't taxed so heavily, then a number of farmers would declare bankruptcy, and our food would likely get cheaper and include more imported material - which is hard to believe only because it's so darn cheap now.
I don't think I've ever wanted to hug someone over a joke before, but this is definitely one of those occasions.
Perhaps, but what's the alternative? If you don't subsidize farmers, base grains and vegetables become an entirely corporate, super farm concern (because only they can afford to do it at a massive scale) and people who've owned land for generations lose the land their ancestors fought and tamed themselves.
Farming has ALWAYS been a razor thin margin operation. There's a reason that stories of people losing farms have been around for hundreds of years, usually because of bad weather or war. Government subsidies ease this burden on the little guys and remove a lot of the utterly random chance that goes into it. Hell... this year's growing season is a perfect example of why they are necessary.
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Aw this is turning all political thread 
I am sticking with the peanut butter is good waaaah. View point.
I am sticking with the peanut butter is good waaaah. View point.
Tooooo baaaaaad for youuuuuuuuuu!Aw this is turning all political thread
I am sticking with the peanut butter is good waaaah. View point.
I love peanut butter. Extra crunchy for me, though - I like my PB&J's to bite back.
Peanut butter and honey is a sandwich I haven't had for a long time though. I ought to do that for my kids.
Don't forget peanut butter on apple slices, and celery sticks, and spoons.
My wife makes an awesome no-bake cookie that is essentially oats, peanut butter, and chocolate.
And I absolutely love boiled peanuts. I wish there was a place to get them up here (not the canned kind - though they aren't terrible - fresh is sooooo much better).
That's funny. There's this house on the way to my son's old day care that will frequently put up signs for "Fresh Cajun Boiled Peanuts", and each time I drove by, I thought, "Who would stop at someone's house to buy boiled peanuts?". Apparently, the answer was you.
Heh. The last time I was down in Georgia we passed by a roadside stand in someone's front yard every day asking for some, and they kept saying, "No, but maybe tomorrow..." But on the way to dinner on our last night Georgia, we found someone selling them off their trailer in an abandoned corner lot.
They were delicious!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiled_peanuts
Huh, there's a lot about boiled peanuts I didn't know.
Not big on spicy stuff, so I'd probably pass up the cajun boiled peanuts, but yeah - I'll buy 'em off the back of some stranger's flat bed trailer in an abandoned lot. Was interesting to see his setup - he had three huge kettles with propane burners below them, and he boiled his for about 8 hours, starting the first kettle at 1-2AM, and staggering the three kettles so he always had some hot fresh product on hand.
I tried to convince him to come up to Michigan and serve them up here.
I suppose I ought to buy some green peanuts and try my hand at boiled peanuts sometime.
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I dont really like crunchy style unless it is on celery. I have a texture thing lol
damnit stienman, why must you be so awesome and quote vegeta!
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