I guess journalism in Hooterville is different because George Washington Carver didn't invent peanut butter. Marcellus Gilmore Edson invented peanut butter and he lived in Canada far from the south. The videos are entertaining as long as people know sugar and hydrogenated oil are not the key ingredients to make good peanut butter. LOL
@@johnluna9286 George Washington Carver did not actually invent peanut butter. He is credited, however, with finding over 300 different uses for peanuts that range from soap to paper because of his extensive research. Edson, had a role, as did the ancient Aztecs and Dr Kellog. I'd say Carver worked most to bring peanut products to prominence in the modern era.
That is a great idea for a video series! You should have the subscribers submit pictures of their pantry and have Matt do a video where he ranks the pantries and decides whether or not he would stay at the house based on what foods are available.
I have an almost empty jar of JIF on countertop. a full on in lazy susan and 2 more at gf house from Sam's club so imagine the size. I like Skippy as well. i won't turn down peter pan. i agree totally with Matt on the rankings 100%.
My grandmother used to put Peter Pan PB, and butter, on Saltines. It's one of the only things she ate. That, pretzels, and Gingerale were her whole diet. She could make a leg of Lamb that would make you see the face of the Lord but she'd be in the corner eating Saltines with Peter Pan and Butter. Greatest Woman I ever knew.
The trick to the Smuckers natural PB is to refrigerate it after opening and stirring. It has a super smooth and creamy consistency, great flavor, and isn't loaded with sugar and other oils. I can totally see how the first time using it after opening it (without stirring it for quite some time and refrigerating it) is a bad experience though.
I store it out of the refrigerator but upside down. Cold PB is hard to spread, just ripping up bread. Flipping it over means the oil is on the bottom and you can just get PB, or stir up the amount of oil you choose.
Smuckers Natural tastes the way peanut butter is SUPPOSED to taste, not loaded up with a bunch of crap. Skippy and Jif are loaded with sugar and trans fats.
Yeah Smuckers takes it. You have to stir it up properly which kind of sucks, but they actually bought out "Adams" which was the best PB ever put on this Earth.... and they aren't trying very hard to push the Adams name, so, I feel like they kinda just wanted the recipe.... cause Smuckers is WAY better now...
😂😂 i want to see Matt rank alternative nut butters now (almond, sunflower seed, etc)- it would be hilarious because he doesn’t put up with any bougie crap.
Man I love a good cashew butter...and there's pistachio butter which I've yet to try...but it sounds amazing!. I can't stand almond butter, it's too sweet.
Also, Smuckers owns Jif. They were acquired in 2001, or sometime around then. Jif has always been made in Lexington, KY, as far as I know. The plant is near downtown, and you can smell the peanuts roasting sometimes. Delicious! :)
The Alabama lunchable made me laugh. I was born in Alabama (lived most of my life in South Carolina) and I love eating Ritz with peanut butter. My dad once picked up the worst peanut butter I've ever tried. it had no salt no sugar and the oil settled out so the peanut butter was hard as a rock. A friend of mine was allergic to peanuts, mainly the shells, and Pater Pan is the only peanut butter she never had a reaction to. She said either they were better at keeping shells from the mix or they didn't use real peanuts.
I grew up on peter pan crunchy. My grandmother always made me peter pan on bunny bread (local brand made within walking distance from my house) with strawberry preserves and jays potato chips (my favorite was the hot stuff flavor). I use jif or skippy when I make cookies but peter pan is my favorite
No. That bread tie always changes direction. It's a conspiracy. If you mix peanut and the jelly together it makes the sammi better. And I love apples n peanut butter. I was sick one day and my grandson was here , he was 7 and he cut an apple up with a butter knife and put peanut butter on the pieces cut up weirdly and brought it to me. The sweetest thing ever!! I know I share too much but I'm southern.
Who knew I was this passionate about peanut butter?? "Jif is #1" and I'm over here saying "Damn right it is!!" like I spent all day crunching up the peanuts that made it..lol Anyway, great video as always! I love watching Matt do reviews.
@@greggcollins4215 are you trolling me?? Lol Skippy is what a 60s dad called his son while he's giving advice and playing catch in the front yard..based on that alone, it's an inferior product...🤷♂️🤣😂🤣
The funny thing about my family is my sister loves Skippy, my parents love Peter Pan , and I love Jif . We have actually had debate about it. We are definitely from the South. Love y’all. Thanks for sharing.
@@PatrickDaviswimiwamwamwazzle Jif sucks. Peter Pan tastes way better. It also doesn’t act like glue on your mouth. I will never buy Jif, the worst brand out ther.
@@juanita_rocksteady2761 no, you're right. those bread ties are difficult to untie. and after awhile, it can break off after so many twists. oh well, that's the price to pay to get to that delicious 🍞 😋.
They are twisted in two directions. I know this as my best friend worked at Brownberry Bakeries and they can select how to twist the wire. She said twisting two directions was a more secure twist. So y’all aren’t going crazy.
Growing up broke, we got some peanut butter from the food bank, it was a brand called American. Now this was the dryest, thickest, hardest to eat peanut butter Ive ever had, it was practically like clay. I damn near suffocated trying to eat a peanut butter sandwich. I kid you not I drank almost a half gallon of milk just to get that one sandwich down without dying
You know it is for poor people when you look on the packaging and the front simply says peanut butter, you look on the back for the ingredients and it says see front of package.
We had the white cardboard cans with black letters on it that was exactly how you described from.the govt food box we would go stand in line for every month. So hard to eat but it made the absolute best cookies ever. That's what my gramma did with it.
I used to work down the street from the Jif plant in Lexington and lord...let me tell ya! The smell in that area on roasting days was enough to drive everyone wild! I'm fairly certain that the next day, everyone had peanut butter in some form in their lunch.
I live in Lexington, Kentucky and I live on the south side of town and I can still smell the peanut butter plant periodically. I don't eat peanut butter that often even though I like it.
I'm late to comment but compelled to state my opinion! I'm 69 and have tried A LOT of brands of peanut butter. I decided a number of years ago that I liked Jif best. My kids all know this and mostly agree with me. They all have Jif in their cupboards!
I love smuckers natural because it is the only one that tastes like peanuts. I can't stand peanut butters with shortening and emulsifiers in them because those taste nasty to me. And the ultra smooth ones kinda make me think of melted plastic, so I don't mind texture to remind me it is actually made of a food grown from the ground instead of a product made in a lab. To each their own. :)
I freaking LOVE Smuckers natural. I tried it under duress because I like super sweet peanut butter - I was a Peter Pan girl. Smuckers is a bit gritty and it does have to be stirred forever because it doesn't have any palm oil or hydrogenated oils. I put up with the gritty and the stirring because it tastes fantastic!
I also love smuckers. I don’t want the sugar that others have. Peanuts and salt. Just stir it with a knife and put in fridge. I eat it right from the jar when I need a protein boost.
🤣🤣🤣Grew up on Adams natural crunchy peanut butter. Watching you try to stir the Smuckers with a plastic spoon was hilarious. Mom would leave the jar upside down for a day and then take a knife to it. Therapeutic stabbing. 🙃
@@jamiem2444 Adams is made by Smuckers. I have issues finding Laura Scudders where I am and I found that if I can find any of the three I'm in the clear. 🙂
i feel like plastic cutlery are abominations; they're just waiting to break on me; maybe it's cuz i don't know my own strength, i did once snap a plastic handle on a blade sharpener or w/e it was called, used for sharpening chainsaw teeth
@@SchruteFarms Don't think I've ever tried the no stir. Due to supply chain issues and whatnot, though, I had to buy a different jar of peanut butter recently. Every sandwich I made with the one I bought (don't even remember the brand) just tasted wrong. So when the Adams was next in stock, I bought two jars. >__>
My family is from the north and the love of peanut butter runs DEEP for generations in my family. We eat it with most everything! Pancakes, muffins, toast, brownies, by itself, smoothies, you name it. For breakfast peanut butter has it's own spot at the table. When anyone brings someone new over, the first question is always, "how do you feel about peanut butter?" I wish I was kidding, but I'm not. It's serious over here. My uncle can even be blindfolded and tell you, with perfect accuracy, which one is what brand. Jif & Peter Pan are the families preferred brands. Although I'm personally a sucker for honey roasted fresh ground peanut butter (like from Whole Foods). Yum!
Matt is so much fun to watch, and I love his opinions and reactions. I always buy Jif, but now when it’s sold out next time I think I will get Skippy. My dad once bought natural peanut butter from the health food store and it was gross and you had to stir it a lot, and it Increased my appreciation of Jif.
If you like peanuts, you’ll like Skippy! I was named after this brand. Mama had a real sense of humor. Wasn’t easy while serving in the military though.
I buy Smuckers Naturals for cooking savory Thai and African dishes because it’s literally just nut paste without sugar. If I’m eating peanut butter for the sake of peanut butter, I go Jif. 😊 (And yes, I regret my use of the phrase “nut paste.”)
He should rate best Mayonnaise (which will always be Duke’s) , best White Bread loaf, best Little Debbie cake, or have a group of southern grandmas make different southern staples like (banana pudding, cornbread, collards, fried chicken , etc.) and have him rank the best one ! This is my favorite series on RUclips !
Y’all should do a bless your rank on fast food ice creams or desserts, like the Chick-fil-A milkshake versus the McFlurry versus the Wendy’s frosty. I would also suggest backyard burger milkshakes, since they have the cool chunks in them.
Fun fact: every single container of Peter Pan peanut butter is manufactured in a facility in Sylvester, Georgia. All of the peanuts grown and harvested for Peter Pan peanut butter comes from the State of Georgia! Peter Pan peanut butter is a Southern Thing, Y'all!
I lived right next to the Jif factory in Lexington KY for about 5 years. I got to smell the heavenly goodness of roasted peanuts nearly every day. Needless to say, Jif will always be my favorite!
I normally totally agree with you Matt. But I LOVE natural peanut butter. I grew up with my mum buying pb from the health food store as it was the only place to buy the natural kind. And we are not health conscious lol. But we love the taste and texture. But I still really enjoyed this video as always x
Follow along with me here…the Natural Peanut Butter, is actually GREAT for Making Buckeyes Candy!!!! Mainly because you’re using SO MUCH Powdered Sugar…you really Don’t Want the Added Sugar IN the Peanut Butter. Just Try It next time & Y’all are Welcome. 🥰
I actually love Adams which is the separated kind. It's a HUGE pain to mix it at first, but then it's fine. It's nice because it has more texture and tastes more peanut-y.
This may be a late comment, but if you ever want a naturally sweet peanut butter, Trader Joe’s unsalted creamy or chunky pb is amazing! Best flavor to me hands down! It is still runny though!
Justin's normal peanut butter is pretty mediocre, but their honey infused peanut butter is honestly a 10/10 product. It's strange how much they differ.
My dad did a blind taste test with me because he thought I couldn’t tell the difference between Jif (the absolute best peanut butter of all time) and all the other brands, and I passed with flying colors. I only buy Jif or don’t buy peanut butter at all.
I used to eat smuckers natural as a kid all the time because my mom was a health nut. I figured out I liked it much better when I drained the oil instead if stirring it! Sometimes it would get a little too dry, but you can always add the oil back if you keep it in a jar or something. But when the consistency was right, it was some of the best stuff on earth
I knew you would rank Smucker's last as soon as you said you preferred the sweet ones. I hate sweet peanut butter, so Smucker's is great - nothing but peanuts and salt. Sometimes I just buy salted peanuts and run them through my food processor until they're peanut butter.
I am right there with you. I grew up with "natural peanut butter" so things like JIF, Peter Pan, etc., all taste like peanut butter-flavored frosting to me. I can't stand them. I don't like any of the ones with sugar added, but I get people that are used to that and that is fine. Just not for me.
Yes, the bread ties struggle is real. I think they should all switch to the little square tags like dinner rolls have. My bread ties always seem to be twisted in two different directions, that is no joke!
I hate the square tags because it's hard to get them back on without tearing the plastic. Where as the bread ties are easy to retie without cutting the plastic.
Just be glad they didn't seal it with that plastic tape that is impossible to open without a knife. Where I live, it's is that or the tags. If you want twist ties, you gotta buy them separately.
Ah man, this is probably the BYR that made me laugh the hardest. We love peanut butter in my family, and have found something to love in each of your first three picks. I figured they'd make top-tier. If you want to talk about peanutbutter freedom, though, ... my dad likes to snack on hot dogs with peanutbutter! Might be legal in the US, but a big no-no in our house, haha! Seriously though, poor guy's been teased about it since I was a kid. My mom still razzes him sometimes when she's noticed he got the first coveted scoop of peanutbutter out the jar. She still picks up whatever peanutbutter he wants, though, if she's doing the shopping, and an eye out for his spicey peanuts/mixed nuts.
Yes Matt!!! You said Reese’s correctly!!! I had a friend as a teen who said it like you were (WRONG WAY) and I had flashbacks of her and all the times I tried to correct her!! 😂 Myself and many of us in my family are Reese’s lovers!! ADDICTED!! Never tried their peanut butter though.
Natural peanut butter is how peanut butter is supposed to taste. Whoever decided to add corn syrup and seed oils to a wonderful product should be ashamed. It's not supposed to be sweet, it's supposed to perfectly counteract the sweetness of the other ingredients it's prepared with.
Nostolgia is a poweful thing, but yea a pbj with natural pb, toasted artisan bread and homemade jam is a really wonderful thing, just very different than the "kid friendly" version
I was expecting a JIF/GIF joke and I was not disappointed. When y'all gonna let Matt talk about the greatness that is the Whataburger Spicy Chicken? We need an update on the spicy bird wars!
LOL Matt. I actually do buy Smucker's as I am on a high protein, low carb diet plan. Smucker's has 2 ingredients, peanuts and salt; no added sugar or palm oil (that's what makes regular peanut butter not separate). I do have to mix it for a long time, but I use a table knife to do that job. Keep the ranks coming!
Yeah if you mix it up real good and put it the the fridge it won't separate. It's actually really good. Dip it in dark chocolate! Or if you like reeses peanut butter cups homemade chocolate frosting with this peanut butter has the same taste.
Just use a kitchen mixer to whip that Smuckers up! Sometimes I flip the jar so to peanut oil mixes in instead of on top before mixing. We use it for the high protein, 2 ingredients
When I was little, my mum switched us to "all-natural" peanut butter ground fresh at the health food store. No salt, no sugar, no emulsifiers or homogenizers or preservatives -- nothing but nuts. It came in a bucket with a snap-down top, so storing upsidey-downdy was out of the question, else there'd be messy peanut oil leaks. I never made the connection at the time, but perhaps my ability to throw a baseball three hundred feet when I was 11 (and a girl) had more to do with stirring the peanut butter and less to do with any particular athletic talent. P.S. I still prefer peanut butter made from nothing but nuts, but stirring it in jars is SO MUCH HARDER than stirring it in those buckets!
I wanna see this ranked again, but including the commodities stuff that comes in the gallon can. You had to stir the heck out of it before spreading, but it made the best dang PB cookies you ever had.
some people come just for the entertainment, but I appreciate the knowledge and insight Matt provides about foods. but we all know jif is the real peanut butter champion, no competition
I was raised on smuckers peanut butter! It’s awesome! Put it in my cereal all the time! Great source of protein! 😋 Also, I don think you want the J.M. Smuckers company to go out of business. They make the Jif peanut butter you put at the first! 😂😂😂
Skippy is my preference. I'd never tried it until I watched it win the tasting on America's Test Kitchen. Smuckers Natural is what my wife used when she made peanut butter treats for our dog.
@@im_just_here_6297 I am so disappointed I can't find Peter pan honey where I live anymore. I get the Skippy honey which is decent but no Peter pan honey
Just discovered your channel. I'm in Massachusetts, so ... Anyway, you are the most entertaining Southerner on RUclips {and I don't need anybody's permission to say so).
I’ve used skippy natural to bake because at my grocery store it’s always on sale. But otherwise I guess I’ve always bought Jif! Now I want to try some new ones :)
I really want a Taste your Rank for Ketchup. That could be very interesting! Also, this really needed some Calve peanut butter from the netherlands. It's not nearly as sweet, which makes it a lot more versatile and I prefer it :)
Perfect timing! I just finished a jar of peanut butter, was wondering if I should buy the same brand (Jif) or go back to Skippy, the kind we had growing up - yes, that was the brand you would find if you opened our pantry. People do buy it lol
And that's why I will never, ever buy Skippy again. It was the cheapest growing up, so that's why my mother bought it. I prefer Simply Jif now because it's less sweet.
I used to live near a Skippy peanut butter plant and that smell of roasting peanuts was amazing and you'd always smell the plant before you'd even be able to see it from the street.
Yep. Jif has always been my favorite! Also, the Jif natural version is pretty good too. Doesn't separate like most natural peanut butter brands. I've bought it occasionally when the store was out of regular Jif. Taste and texture is very similar. I've never compared the labels to see what is supposed to be different about.
When I was stuck on bedrest in the hospital waiting to give birth, creamy peanut butter with graham crackers was the best snack ever. I have never had it that way until then and I still sometimes enjoy it like that. Edit: I use Jif for peanut butter balls
I love food memories. Mine for pb on graham crackers is after walking back to Mammaw’s house after swimming lessons. It was Snickers bars when I was in hospital on bed rest waiting to give birth.
Personally, I love the Smuckers Natural Crunchy. It's the best tasting natural peanut butter, and I usually try to buy peanut butter without sugar or extra ingredients. If you store it upside down in the fridge it's thicker and you don't need to stir it. Natural peanut butter is always runnier though. If I'm going to have something sugary, I like Peter Pan Honey Roast.
I use a natural PB to avoid added sugars and oils. btw I store it upside down so I don't have to mix it up all the time. Although I admit Jif tastes better.
My family eats peter pan, especially their honey roast. Our dogs love it too, and it's amazing for baking(especially cookies both human and dog lol) my boyfriend bless his heart only eats extra crunchy jif, we're a house divided
I study concepts from all different types of academia for fun, literally have a stockpile of college textbooks to read...but the bread tie still mystifies me. It does change direction. I don't care what anyone says.
Yes, the loaves alternate on the line. About half rotate right and half left. A washpost columnist called them and got that answer. Darn. Blocking on his name. Weingarten? Yesl
Smuckers is where it’s at! All the other jars you reviewed were peanut butter flavored frosting. That being said, Jif is undoubtedly the best peanut frosting. And it’s especially the case if you put any of those on hot toast. Skippy and Peter Pan just drip right off
This is the kind of journalism America needs! Thank you Matt.
Matt is seriously adorable.
I think you are right. I can see the tv news anchor, and now a touch of the south with Matt Mitchell.
I guess journalism in Hooterville is different because George Washington Carver didn't invent peanut butter. Marcellus Gilmore Edson invented peanut butter and he lived in Canada far from the south. The videos are entertaining as long as people know sugar and hydrogenated oil are not the key ingredients to make good peanut butter. LOL
@@johnluna9286 George Washington Carver did not actually invent peanut butter. He is credited, however, with finding over 300 different uses for peanuts that range from soap to paper because of his extensive research. Edson, had a role, as did the ancient Aztecs and Dr Kellog. I'd say Carver worked most to bring peanut products to prominence in the modern era.
@@hemaccabe4292 - You are the one who said "the kind of journalism America needs", I'm just stating the obvious...Have a blessed day!
That is a great idea for a video series! You should have the subscribers submit pictures of their pantry and have Matt do a video where he ranks the pantries and decides whether or not he would stay at the house based on what foods are available.
Genius!
I think he did that already.
Matt wld be like what, did I walk into great gramma's house? I have a lot of home canned stuff. 😄
I have an almost empty jar of JIF on countertop. a full on in lazy susan and 2 more at gf house from Sam's club so imagine the size. I like Skippy as well. i won't turn down peter pan. i agree totally with Matt on the rankings 100%.
That’s awesome
My grandmother used to put Peter Pan PB, and butter, on Saltines. It's one of the only things she ate. That, pretzels, and Gingerale were her whole diet. She could make a leg of Lamb that would make you see the face of the Lord but she'd be in the corner eating Saltines with Peter Pan and Butter. Greatest Woman I ever knew.
I love butter and peanut butter on saltines, not on the same cracker.
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That probably wouldn’t have worked out so well today with the trash oils and corn syrup they use in all of these run of the mill peanut butters.
How old did she live to be? I may need to adjust my diet to get them extra years.
The trick to the Smuckers natural PB is to refrigerate it after opening and stirring. It has a super smooth and creamy consistency, great flavor, and isn't loaded with sugar and other oils. I can totally see how the first time using it after opening it (without stirring it for quite some time and refrigerating it) is a bad experience though.
I store it out of the refrigerator but upside down. Cold PB is hard to spread, just ripping up bread. Flipping it over means the oil is on the bottom and you can just get PB, or stir up the amount of oil you choose.
Smuckers Natural tastes the way peanut butter is SUPPOSED to taste, not loaded up with a bunch of crap. Skippy and Jif are loaded with sugar and trans fats.
@@elizabethmillinghausen7356 Pureed walnuts is killer with,,squeezed lemons , jalapeno, asparagus and sardines
Smuckers is the best in my opinion. It is a bit sweet, but the sweetness comes from it being a little more toasted than the norm. I love it.
Yeah Smuckers takes it. You have to stir it up properly which kind of sucks, but they actually bought out "Adams" which was the best PB ever put on this Earth.... and they aren't trying very hard to push the Adams name, so, I feel like they kinda just wanted the recipe.... cause Smuckers is WAY better now...
😂😂 i want to see Matt rank alternative nut butters now (almond, sunflower seed, etc)- it would be hilarious because he doesn’t put up with any bougie crap.
Man I love a good cashew butter...and there's pistachio butter which I've yet to try...but it sounds amazing!. I can't stand almond butter, it's too sweet.
Macadamia butter, really delicious.
Chloe We have that kinda crap in tha south.
Also, Smuckers owns Jif. They were acquired in 2001, or sometime around then. Jif has always been made in Lexington, KY, as far as I know. The plant is near downtown, and you can smell the peanuts roasting sometimes. Delicious! :)
Mmmm ^_^
Very true, I love it when the wind is just right and you can smell reassured peanuts across town.
The JM Smucker Company requires vaccination of their employees.
I've always been a Jif customer..... It is CLEARLY the best.
I can confirm this lol. It's probably why i love the smell of peanut butter.
If we all could have a much fun as the editor did on this episode there'd never be war, sadness, or grief.
Slather me in jif and call me Shirley, it's a new bless your rank episode.
How about if we slather you in Jif and call you Nutty!
Hi there Shirley
Just leave you outside for the fire ants.
@@scallywag1716
You thought that was clever....bless your heart.
@@BlueberryFundip apparently enough for you to respond to….bless your heart.
Anyone else rewatching this in 2024?😂
Me lol
Watching for the first time in 2024
Me 😂
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ME! LOL
The Alabama lunchable made me laugh. I was born in Alabama (lived most of my life in South Carolina) and I love eating Ritz with peanut butter. My dad once picked up the worst peanut butter I've ever tried. it had no salt no sugar and the oil settled out so the peanut butter was hard as a rock. A friend of mine was allergic to peanuts, mainly the shells, and Pater Pan is the only peanut butter she never had a reaction to. She said either they were better at keeping shells from the mix or they didn't use real peanuts.
This implies your friend kept trying peanut butters until they found one they could eat.
@@BioYuGi She never had a big reaction to them and her mom kept feeding it to her when she was younger.
so smuckers
@@BioYuGi 😂I know right!!!???
I have always been team Skippy. Seems like growing up it was either Skippy or Jif, with Peter Pan being the dark horse that you buy when it’s on sale.
I have never eaten a PB I didn't like. Are my taste buds broken? Why is there a competition for best tasting PB when they all succeed equally?
I like skippy better. For me Jiff is too sweet.
I grew up on peter pan crunchy. My grandmother always made me peter pan on bunny bread (local brand made within walking distance from my house) with strawberry preserves and jays potato chips (my favorite was the hot stuff flavor). I use jif or skippy when I make cookies but peter pan is my favorite
I concur with Matt's assessments. A follow-up ranking of the crunchy/chunky versions is now in order.
crunchy PB RULZ !!!!
Also petnut butter on a spoon version cause it’s the only was to eat it
Matt Mitchell is soooo funny and wholesome. Always a joy to watch.
I agree lol I remember watching him during the Tornado video he did. I forget the whole title. But it was funny.
"Dr.Pepper is my water." and to this day I live by those words
*Diabetes and heart disease want to know your location*
@@natebrook , RIGHT? soda is SO bad for you....whether reg or diet. WATER! ; )
No. That bread tie always changes direction. It's a conspiracy. If you mix peanut and the jelly together it makes the sammi better. And I love apples n peanut butter. I was sick one day and my grandson was here , he was 7 and he cut an apple up with a butter knife and put peanut butter on the pieces cut up weirdly and brought it to me. The sweetest thing ever!!
I know I share too much but I'm southern.
That's OK. We're Southern too. I love apples and peanut butter too. They were meant to be from the first.
I LOOOOVE apples slices with nut butters on them. 😋
Another vote for apples and peanut butter- yum!
Aww your grandson is a little sweetheart! He made you a snack with love.
That is so sweet indeed
Who knew I was this passionate about peanut butter?? "Jif is #1" and I'm over here saying "Damn right it is!!" like I spent all day crunching up the peanuts that made it..lol Anyway, great video as always! I love watching Matt do reviews.
For Sure 👍
Jif is too sweet, Skippy is best
@@greggcollins4215 are you trolling me?? Lol Skippy is what a 60s dad called his son while he's giving advice and playing catch in the front yard..based on that alone, it's an inferior product...🤷♂️🤣😂🤣
Jif is the best.
He puts JIF first? Damn. I’m stopping the video for sure. Thanks for the heads up tho
The funny thing about my family is my sister loves Skippy, my parents love Peter Pan , and I love Jif . We have actually had debate about it. We are definitely from the South. Love y’all. Thanks for sharing.
I grew up on jif and remember being so excited when I moved to my own place and could buy any brand I wanted🤣 ended up going back to jif though
Peter Pan has had too many salmonella scares for me to ever try. I'll stick with JIF the ole reliable.
You are the only one in your family with ANY taste....... Use that .... " Y'all don't even have any taste in your mouth"😁
@@PatrickDaviswimiwamwamwazzle this comment aged hilariously
@@PatrickDaviswimiwamwamwazzle Jif sucks. Peter Pan tastes way better. It also doesn’t act like glue on your mouth. I will never buy Jif, the worst brand out ther.
I've never been happier or had more fun the watching Matt eat peanut butter
"Nope, Ohio. Death to smuckers." As an Ohioan, I laughed so hard at that.
No your not alone! I also feel like the twist ties on bread change direction, happens to me all the time. lol
I know! Why and how?
Good to know it's not just me. I thought I was nuts. The twist ties do change direction.
Truth
@@juanita_rocksteady2761 no, you're right. those bread ties are difficult to untie. and after awhile, it can break off after so many twists. oh well, that's the price to pay to get to that delicious 🍞 😋.
They are twisted in two directions. I know this as my best friend worked at Brownberry Bakeries and they can select how to twist the wire. She said twisting two directions was a more secure twist. So y’all aren’t going crazy.
Growing up broke, we got some peanut butter from the food bank, it was a brand called American. Now this was the dryest, thickest, hardest to eat peanut butter Ive ever had, it was practically like clay. I damn near suffocated trying to eat a peanut butter sandwich. I kid you not I drank almost a half gallon of milk just to get that one sandwich down without dying
don't forget bland
@S In fact, it could have been made out of peanut butter powder. That is a beast that should never have hatched.
🤣 Sorry. But that was funny.
You know it is for poor people when you look on the packaging and the front simply says peanut butter, you look on the back for the ingredients and it says see front of package.
We had the white cardboard cans with black letters on it that was exactly how you described from.the govt food box we would go stand in line for every month. So hard to eat but it made the absolute best cookies ever. That's what my gramma did with it.
I used to work down the street from the Jif plant in Lexington and lord...let me tell ya! The smell in that area on roasting days was enough to drive everyone wild! I'm fairly certain that the next day, everyone had peanut butter in some form in their lunch.
I live in Lexington, Kentucky and I live on the south side of town and I can still smell the peanut butter plant periodically. I don't eat peanut butter that often even though I like it.
When I used to live in Lexington, driving by the Jif plant was always a highlight of my day. Loved to get a whiff of that Jif!
That sounds amazing! 🥰 I lived down the road from a sausage casing plant and the smell was not so pleasant, lol. 🤮
Yum!
Smuckers jelly and jam is Best on Jif
I'm late to comment but compelled to state my opinion! I'm 69 and have tried A LOT of brands of peanut butter. I decided a number of years ago that I liked Jif best. My kids all know this and mostly agree with me. They all have Jif in their cupboards!
I love smuckers natural because it is the only one that tastes like peanuts. I can't stand peanut butters with shortening and emulsifiers in them because those taste nasty to me. And the ultra smooth ones kinda make me think of melted plastic, so I don't mind texture to remind me it is actually made of a food grown from the ground instead of a product made in a lab. To each their own. :)
I freaking LOVE Smuckers natural. I tried it under duress because I like super sweet peanut butter - I was a Peter Pan girl. Smuckers is a bit gritty and it does have to be stirred forever because it doesn't have any palm oil or hydrogenated oils. I put up with the gritty and the stirring because it tastes fantastic!
Not smuckets
@@sandrajacobs5549 yeah, yeah... Phone typing. Apparently my autocorrect has heard of smuckets and not smuckers. 😂 I fixed it.
I also love smuckers. I don’t want the sugar that others have. Peanuts and salt. Just stir it with a knife and put in fridge. I eat it right from the jar when I need a protein boost.
@@beverlysleeper5868 I put mind in the fridge, too! Keeps it from separating.
i like the smuckers natural a lot bc its soo good on toasted bagels mm
🤣🤣🤣Grew up on Adams natural crunchy peanut butter. Watching you try to stir the Smuckers with a plastic spoon was hilarious. Mom would leave the jar upside down for a day and then take a knife to it. Therapeutic stabbing. 🙃
Yes! I love Adams, but they don't have it where I live now so I get smuckers.
@@jamiem2444 Adams is made by Smuckers. I have issues finding Laura Scudders where I am and I found that if I can find any of the three I'm in the clear. 🙂
i feel like plastic cutlery are abominations; they're just waiting to break on me; maybe it's cuz i don't know my own strength, i did once snap a plastic handle on a blade sharpener or w/e it was called, used for sharpening chainsaw teeth
I actually really like the Adams “no stir” peanut butter.
@@SchruteFarms Don't think I've ever tried the no stir. Due to supply chain issues and whatnot, though, I had to buy a different jar of peanut butter recently. Every sandwich I made with the one I bought (don't even remember the brand) just tasted wrong. So when the Adams was next in stock, I bought two jars. >__>
Matt is a wholesome human that we need all around the world
Thank you for the laughs! 😂 I loved your review of Smuckers! That's what pushed me over the edge
My family is from the north and the love of peanut butter runs DEEP for generations in my family. We eat it with most everything! Pancakes, muffins, toast, brownies, by itself, smoothies, you name it. For breakfast peanut butter has it's own spot at the table. When anyone brings someone new over, the first question is always, "how do you feel about peanut butter?" I wish I was kidding, but I'm not. It's serious over here. My uncle can even be blindfolded and tell you, with perfect accuracy, which one is what brand. Jif & Peter Pan are the families preferred brands. Although I'm personally a sucker for honey roasted fresh ground peanut butter (like from Whole Foods). Yum!
Matt is so much fun to watch, and I love his opinions and reactions. I always buy Jif, but now when it’s sold out next time I think I will get Skippy. My dad once bought natural peanut butter from the health food store and it was gross and you had to stir it a lot, and it Increased my appreciation of Jif.
If you like peanuts, you’ll like Skippy! I was named after this brand. Mama had a real sense of humor. Wasn’t easy while serving in the military though.
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Durn, Skippy
I buy skippy because my kids eat it with jelly/jam so I like less sugar.
I buy Smuckers Naturals for cooking savory Thai and African dishes because it’s literally just nut paste without sugar. If I’m eating peanut butter for the sake of peanut butter, I go Jif. 😊 (And yes, I regret my use of the phrase “nut paste.”)
You might want to reread your comment...BUT PASTE...lmfao.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 HAHA, edited! Thank you! 😂😅🤣
Very true on the Thai and African recipes!
You know what? That's a great idea for Pad Thai.. Thank you☺☺
@@mollysanders9757 YW!
He should rate best Mayonnaise (which will always be Duke’s) , best White Bread loaf, best Little Debbie cake, or have a group of southern grandmas make different southern staples like (banana pudding, cornbread, collards, fried chicken , etc.) and have him rank the best one ! This is my favorite series on RUclips !
You CANNOT rank Grandma's against one another, it would start a war. Like hatchfield and McCoy's. And would be never ending
You are so right about the bread ties!
Great one Matt. Very enjoyable. Got the whole family watching it too. Cheers!
Same here! Got my MIL now watching. Every Sunday, if there is something new, we all watch and laugh and have so much to discuss! Matt is the best!
Oh wow! I remember watching you years ago! I loved it when you went to Holland 😊. Great to see you here.
@@heatherthedutch-american1481 thank you
Hey, it's Wolters World! I love your channel. It's great seeing awesome channels I like comment on other awesome channels I like.
@@pongop cheers
Y’all have such a good team with an incredible cast, but with videos like this, Matt is my favorite.
“Birds aren’t real” 💀 Andrea’s editing is undefeated 😂
Y’all should do a bless your rank on fast food ice creams or desserts, like the Chick-fil-A milkshake versus the McFlurry versus the Wendy’s frosty. I would also suggest backyard burger milkshakes, since they have the cool chunks in them.
Fun fact: every single container of Peter Pan peanut butter is manufactured in a facility in Sylvester, Georgia. All of the peanuts grown and harvested for Peter Pan peanut butter comes from the State of Georgia! Peter Pan peanut butter is a Southern Thing, Y'all!
The honey roasted is my very favorite!
I think you should try a "blind" bless your rank. A blind taste test. This would have been a good one. FYI- Jif is the BEST.
Slight correction -Jif Extra Crunchy...and skip the jam.
“Dr. Pepper is my water” had me in actual tears
That’s my husband 😂
Jif can never be beat! Enjoyed the taste testing commentary though because I was rolling in laughter by the end!
I lived right next to the Jif factory in Lexington KY for about 5 years. I got to smell the heavenly goodness of roasted peanuts nearly every day. Needless to say, Jif will always be my favorite!
yuck, full of processed seed oil. A great way to get cancer.
I normally totally agree with you Matt. But I LOVE natural peanut butter. I grew up with my mum buying pb from the health food store as it was the only place to buy the natural kind. And we are not health conscious lol. But we love the taste and texture. But I still really enjoyed this video as always x
Man, you made me laugh so hard that milk came out of my nose, and I wasn't even drinking milk. Jif is the boss. Period.
If you're looking for a little extra sweet from Skippy get the kind with honey. Orange lid, my absolute fave.
Follow along with me here…the Natural Peanut Butter, is actually GREAT for Making Buckeyes Candy!!!! Mainly because you’re using SO MUCH Powdered Sugar…you really Don’t Want the Added Sugar IN the Peanut Butter.
Just Try It next time & Y’all are Welcome. 🥰
I actually love Adams which is the separated kind. It's a HUGE pain to mix it at first, but then it's fine. It's nice because it has more texture and tastes more peanut-y.
This may be a late comment, but if you ever want a naturally sweet peanut butter, Trader Joe’s unsalted creamy or chunky pb is amazing! Best flavor to me hands down! It is still runny though!
Justin's normal peanut butter is pretty mediocre, but their honey infused peanut butter is honestly a 10/10 product. It's strange how much they differ.
I was just going to say the same
It's so good, but it's not a pb&j type peanut butter. You want that for crackers or a smoothie bowl or something
Lol just commented this
Justin's almond butter is decent, but it has the same texture, almost not ground enough.
I just mix honey into my peanut butter like my daddy taught me 60 years ago!
The joy on Matt's face is unparalleled. Makes my day.
My dad did a blind taste test with me because he thought I couldn’t tell the difference between Jif (the absolute best peanut butter of all time) and all the other brands, and I passed with flying colors. I only buy Jif or don’t buy peanut butter at all.
I switched to Skippy the very first time I tried it. But Jif is one of the best, that is a fact.
The smuckers shaking sounds and description part made me cry from laughing so hard. Great content as always 😂
I used to eat smuckers natural as a kid all the time because my mom was a health nut. I figured out I liked it much better when I drained the oil instead if stirring it! Sometimes it would get a little too dry, but you can always add the oil back if you keep it in a jar or something. But when the consistency was right, it was some of the best stuff on earth
I stumbled upon your videos recently i absolutely love them! 😂
I knew you would rank Smucker's last as soon as you said you preferred the sweet ones. I hate sweet peanut butter, so Smucker's is great - nothing but peanuts and salt. Sometimes I just buy salted peanuts and run them through my food processor until they're peanut butter.
I am right there with you. I grew up with "natural peanut butter" so things like JIF, Peter Pan, etc., all taste like peanut butter-flavored frosting to me. I can't stand them. I don't like any of the ones with sugar added, but I get people that are used to that and that is fine. Just not for me.
Which blade do you use? I want to do this.
So I’m doing low carb so I also eat Smuckers . I don’t need or want the extra sugar. It’s definitely an acquired taste for some of us.
Agreed 💯
Yuh need to mix smuckers right. Otherwise it’s crap
Matt, you need to do a part 2, and rate store brands.
Yes, the bread ties struggle is real. I think they should all switch to the little square tags like dinner rolls have. My bread ties always seem to be twisted in two different directions, that is no joke!
Throw the bread tie away, use a wooden clothes pin.
I hate the square tags because it's hard to get them back on without tearing the plastic. Where as the bread ties are easy to retie without cutting the plastic.
Just be glad they didn't seal it with that plastic tape that is impossible to open without a knife. Where I live, it's is that or the tags. If you want twist ties, you gotta buy them separately.
@@larryeddings3185 we do!
@@nanoflower1 you must have excellent hand to eye coordination!
Ah man, this is probably the BYR that made me laugh the hardest.
We love peanut butter in my family, and have found something to love in each of your first three picks. I figured they'd make top-tier. If you want to talk about peanutbutter freedom, though, ... my dad likes to snack on hot dogs with peanutbutter! Might be legal in the US, but a big no-no in our house, haha! Seriously though, poor guy's been teased about it since I was a kid. My mom still razzes him sometimes when she's noticed he got the first coveted scoop of peanutbutter out the jar. She still picks up whatever peanutbutter he wants, though, if she's doing the shopping, and an eye out for his spicey peanuts/mixed nuts.
I love it! Y’all have your priorities in order!
The National Peanut Festival is in Dothan, AL so that makes peanuts a southern thing.
3/5 of my babies were born in Dothan! We love it there.
normally don't like watching ranking food except you are so funny and awesome to watch that it's a family tradition.
Yes Matt!!! You said Reese’s correctly!!! I had a friend as a teen who said it like you were (WRONG WAY) and I had flashbacks of her and all the times I tried to correct her!! 😂 Myself and many of us in my family are Reese’s lovers!! ADDICTED!! Never tried their peanut butter though.
Natural peanut butter is how peanut butter is supposed to taste. Whoever decided to add corn syrup and seed oils to a wonderful product should be ashamed. It's not supposed to be sweet, it's supposed to perfectly counteract the sweetness of the other ingredients it's prepared with.
Nostolgia is a poweful thing, but yea a pbj with natural pb, toasted artisan bread and homemade jam is a really wonderful thing, just very different than the "kid friendly" version
I'm so glad that you first placed my fav peanut butter. I make Jif sammiches at least once a week just because they're danged delicious.
I was expecting a JIF/GIF joke and I was not disappointed.
When y'all gonna let Matt talk about the greatness that is the Whataburger Spicy Chicken? We need an update on the spicy bird wars!
LOL Matt. I actually do buy Smucker's as I am on a high protein, low carb diet plan. Smucker's has 2 ingredients, peanuts and salt; no added sugar or palm oil (that's what makes regular peanut butter not separate). I do have to mix it for a long time, but I use a table knife to do that job. Keep the ranks coming!
Love the Smucker’s peanut butter! Just two ingredients. No weird chemicals. Yum!
Thats what i use too
Yeah if you mix it up real good and put it the the fridge it won't separate. It's actually really good. Dip it in dark chocolate! Or if you like reeses peanut butter cups homemade chocolate frosting with this peanut butter has the same taste.
Just use a kitchen mixer to whip that Smuckers up! Sometimes I flip the jar so to peanut oil mixes in instead of on top before mixing. We use it for the high protein, 2 ingredients
Yep! Two ingredients . ..that's the only way to go!
Natural peanut butter Life Hack: store jar upside down (lid side down) to keep it mixed and easier to scoop out.
No way...
It never works for me
Once I get it stirred and mixed thoroughly, I put natural PB in the fridge to keep it from separating again.
When I was little, my mum switched us to "all-natural" peanut butter ground fresh at the health food store. No salt, no sugar, no emulsifiers or homogenizers or preservatives -- nothing but nuts. It came in a bucket with a snap-down top, so storing upsidey-downdy was out of the question, else there'd be messy peanut oil leaks. I never made the connection at the time, but perhaps my ability to throw a baseball three hundred feet when I was 11 (and a girl) had more to do with stirring the peanut butter and less to do with any particular athletic talent.
P.S. I still prefer peanut butter made from nothing but nuts, but stirring it in jars is SO MUCH HARDER than stirring it in those buckets!
@@merriemisfit8406 Snack time plus workout! And wow! You had a great arm!
As a southerner and peanut butter lover, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Matt you are the greatest!
I wanna see this ranked again, but including the commodities stuff that comes in the gallon can. You had to stir the heck out of it before spreading, but it made the best dang PB cookies you ever had.
I've always loved Smucker's but your review is making me rethink my life.
Don't. The sugar butters are terrible.
Or just stick to their jams and jellies
Jif air freshener, you're totally on to something there Matt!! 😄👍👍
some people come just for the entertainment, but I appreciate the knowledge and insight Matt provides about foods.
but we all know jif is the real peanut butter champion, no competition
Extra crunchy jif is the best.
I switched mayonnaise because of Matt.🤣🤣🤣
@@greythumbshenanigans559 I prefer creamy :) if I want some crunch in my sandwich I just add potato chips lol.
@@greythumbshenanigans559 seriously cruncy! I spoon some out onto a plate and eat it with a fork! *Real* good!
You are not the only one who feels like the twist ties change directions as you try to open them the first time. I swear it happens to me every time.
“Congrats, you played yourself. You got fooled by marketing.” 😂🤣🤣
I was raised on smuckers peanut butter! It’s awesome! Put it in my cereal all the time! Great source of protein! 😋
Also, I don think you want the J.M. Smuckers company to go out of business. They make the Jif peanut butter you put at the first! 😂😂😂
Wait. Peanut butter in cereal? Huh? That sounds horrible enough for me to never even try. Unless you are buying the drinks.
@@claycassin8437 it's pretty good in chocolate cereal or things like cheerios
Skippy is my preference. I'd never tried it until I watched it win the tasting on America's Test Kitchen. Smuckers Natural is what my wife used when she made peanut butter treats for our dog.
Missed opportunity not trying either of the honey roasted options from skippy and Peter Pan. Both will change your life
Peter Pan Honey roasted is straight 🔥🔥
@@im_just_here_6297 I am so disappointed I can't find Peter pan honey where I live anymore. I get the Skippy honey which is decent but no Peter pan honey
Just discovered your channel. I'm in Massachusetts, so ... Anyway, you are the most entertaining Southerner on RUclips {and I don't need anybody's permission to say so).
I’ve used skippy natural to bake because at my grocery store it’s always on sale. But otherwise I guess I’ve always bought Jif! Now I want to try some new ones :)
I really want a Taste your Rank for Ketchup. That could be very interesting!
Also, this really needed some Calve peanut butter from the netherlands. It's not nearly as sweet, which makes it a lot more versatile and I prefer it :)
No need for a Ketchup video. Heinz that’s it, that’s the list.
@@davehollick3646 Lot of people think that way, try other tomato ketchups and suddenly find Heinz overly sweet and just underwhelming
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Yes sir, if you go to a diner that DOESN'T have Heinz ketchup just leave..
HEINZ 1st place generic store brands 2nd place Hunts last place
Wonderful video! Entertaining as always
And another HUGE congratulations on baby girls arrival 🥰♥️🎀🎀
Perfect timing! I just finished a jar of peanut butter, was wondering if I should buy the same brand (Jif) or go back to Skippy, the kind we had growing up - yes, that was the brand you would find if you opened our pantry. People do buy it lol
And that's why I will never, ever buy Skippy again. It was the cheapest growing up, so that's why my mother bought it. I prefer Simply Jif now because it's less sweet.
Skippy ftw! The few times growing up our Costco only carried JIF.... Skippy is my favorite!
I used to live near a Skippy peanut butter plant and that smell of roasting peanuts was amazing and you'd always smell the plant before you'd even be able to see it from the street.
You did not just use a remix of Vitas?!?! Best video you've ever done, on that basis alone
Yep. Jif has always been my favorite! Also, the Jif natural version is pretty good too. Doesn't separate like most natural peanut butter brands. I've bought it occasionally when the store was out of regular Jif. Taste and texture is very similar.
I've never compared the labels to see what is supposed to be different about.
When I was stuck on bedrest in the hospital waiting to give birth, creamy peanut butter with graham crackers was the best snack ever. I have never had it that way until then and I still sometimes enjoy it like that.
Edit: I use Jif for peanut butter balls
I like Graham crackers with pb too. As well as vanilla wafers and ritz crackers. It's all good.
I love food memories. Mine for pb on graham crackers is after walking back to Mammaw’s house after swimming lessons. It was Snickers bars when I was in hospital on bed rest waiting to give birth.
I'm a die hard Skippy fan! Their PB is amazing!
Same, in my family we only get jif if there is no Skippy to be had
"Idk if she was choosy, but she was a good mom" haha so much unexpected comedy
Personally, I love the Smuckers Natural Crunchy. It's the best tasting natural peanut butter, and I usually try to buy peanut butter without sugar or extra ingredients. If you store it upside down in the fridge it's thicker and you don't need to stir it. Natural peanut butter is always runnier though. If I'm going to have something sugary, I like Peter Pan Honey Roast.
Decades ago when I was a child, my friends and I did a Skippy/Jif taste test. We all preferred Jif. Personally I like crunchy peanut butter.
I use a natural PB to avoid added sugars and oils. btw I store it upside down so I don't have to mix it up all the time. Although I admit Jif tastes better.
Same!
Matt popping the jars was pure entertainment.
Stirring the natural peanut butter well, then placing it in the fridge does wonders for its consistency.
Great video! I’m surprised it’s necessary though. I thought everybody only bought Jif. 🤣
I grew up with Skippy and still love it.
My family eats peter pan, especially their honey roast. Our dogs love it too, and it's amazing for baking(especially cookies both human and dog lol) my boyfriend bless his heart only eats extra crunchy jif, we're a house divided
Peter Pan also has a natural one that is so good!
When I was anemic, I would enjoy their extra iron version. Now I’m a Jif crunchy lover.
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Your boyfriend is right! And dogs will eat dog 💩.
@@barbaraborgia3289 My doctor told me to eat more things with iron in it, I wasn't aware peanuts had iron. Any suggestions?
I study concepts from all different types of academia for fun, literally have a stockpile of college textbooks to read...but the bread tie still mystifies me. It does change direction. I don't care what anyone says.
Yes, the loaves alternate on the line. About half rotate right and half left. A washpost columnist called them and got that answer. Darn. Blocking on his name. Weingarten? Yesl
Smuckers is where it’s at! All the other jars you reviewed were peanut butter flavored frosting.
That being said, Jif is undoubtedly the best peanut frosting. And it’s especially the case if you put any of those on hot toast. Skippy and Peter Pan just drip right off
LMAAOOOO the Peter Pan peanut butter!! I'm watching this at work when I am not supposed to be and had to cover up my laughter with fake coughing.