• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    Deep-fried Reese’s cups. You know you want it. You want to dip them in strawberry jam, and top them with whipped cream, and a chocolate sauce drizzle. It’s okay, we won’t judge you.

    You also want chocolate-coated grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with mint chocolate-chip ice cream. Just… try it. We won’t watch. Just the one time.

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      I’ve genuinely never understood how people can stand chocolate and fruit together. Or fruit and coffee for that matter. Chocolate and coffee taste kinda similar to me though so those mix well…

      But fruit with either is just super nasty to me.

      All that said, the best chocolate I’ve ever had was some imported thing that tasted vaguely of raspberry, but wasn’t actually supposed to. It was just chocolate that got stored with other candies.

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        If chocolate and coffee taste similar to you, I can see why you wouldn’t like it with fruit!

        I like chocolate with my fruit (berries, apple even) but I don’t care for fruit in my chocolate bars, funny enough.

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    Idk how other countries do peanut butter, but ours is usually sweetened. Goes great with candy, dessert, acai bowls, milkshakes, pancakes, crepes, etc. etc

    Then there’s the Elvis Presley burger… Though I haven’t tried it so I won’t knock it😆

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    Real. Peanut butter in general is so ass. Basically every other nut butter is superior yet Americans love to shove that gross, musty shite into everything.

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    There are virtually infinite things to shit on us Americans for, and most of them deservedly so. But this one ain’t it.

    Give me peanut butter and chocolate or give me death.

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    This is so undeniably, objectively true.

    Peanuts end up in everything because they’re very cheap, not because they’re that good.

    Peanut butter is … fine. That’s all you can honestly say. PB&J is edible at it’s best, and then only rarely. Reese’s is a testament to how easy it is to sell coagulated sugar and salt. Bougie peanut butter cups are just polished turds.

    Thai is the only cuisine that knows what to do with peanuts.

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      Ham and pineapple complement one another with saltiness and sweetness. One amplifies the flavor of the other.

      If you put canadian bacon next to the pineapple, its delicious. Also, really important to have pineapple that’s not super fibrious in a mixed dish.

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    I think we think it goes together because of Reese’s. Like we see it as some classic combo. Ill say I’ve tried the combo several other ways and it really only works when the peanut butter is extremely, extremely sweet.

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    Abysmal take. Chocolate ice cream with frozen peanut butter swirled in is proof that god loves us.