The Side of the Jar Promised “Irresistible Peanut Butter Cookies”
The best taste of Jif Creamy Peanut Butter
is always the first one. Breaking this
light brown substances should never be done
with a knife, spread on toast or celery sticks,
but with the finger of the person eating it.
Peanut butter never tastes as good
on anything as it does on skin. It’s unknown
as to why, but it’s as perfect as
peanut butter ever gets.
Maybe it has something to do with the natural oils
on fingertips. The oilsthat the middle-aged,
ex-actress named Candice (who used to teach
acting classes to kids ages 7-13 at the rec
center in Dublin, Ohio) used to talk about.
She’d warn against touching the
curtains because the oils would discolor
them. Sometimes, her booming voice scared
the little kids, but she never failed to whisper
their lines when they got stage fright at a performance.
Years later those kids would be in college. One would
remember Candice after breaking
into a new, Costco-sized Jif Creamy Peanut Butter bought to
make cookies meant for Japanese exchange students.
These exchange students were fascinated with America’s
obsession for the stuff. Theyate a huge batch thankfully,
even though they were worried about carrying
the oils on their fingertips, the way Candice had been.