My jar of peanut butter has an English address on it, so I'm assuming that, although the peanuts would have been imported, the peanut butter was made in the UK.
I'm going to put my hand up and confess to occasionally eating peanut butter and jam sandwiches. However, I think this is a consequence of my having spent some time in Canada when I was a student. I wouldn't consider it to be a 'normal' combination in the UK.
Then again, I always thought that it was normal to eat peanut butter with tomatoes and cucumber, and the number of Canadians I came across when I was a student who thought that a vile combination was rather large!
My landlady, when I was in Canada, endlessly tried to convince me that peanut butter and banana sandwiches were a good idea. I was never convinced, and could never bring myself to try that particular combination.
I do, however, like apples with peanut butter.
I'm not even sure if you can get grape jelly over here.
You can buy Skippy peanut butter over here, but I think that is made under licence in the UK. Certainly, Skippy is for sale locally, in one of our (few!) shops. (The only other place I've seen this for sale in the UK was in Manchester, in a shop that specialised in selling things to homesick Americans at vastly inflated prices.)
My personal preference is for sugar-free peanut butter; I think it tastes much better than either the stuff with added sugar or with added apple juice. (I've seen the latter sold as being 'American style' peanut butter).
I've never tried peanut butter with marmite. Although I like both separately, I'm not sure I can imagine them going together. Maybe I'll have to try...
As for peanut butter sweets... Harking back again to when I was in Canada, I found anything with peanut butter chips in it to be utterly revolting, and quite unlike actual peanut butter. I still shudder at the memories!
Krissie
