Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 27, 1993 TAG: 9301270104
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ELLIOTT MINOR ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: ALBANY, GA. LENGTH: Medium
NEWSLETTER SPREADS THE WORD
Looking for something stimulating to read while you wolf down yet another peanut butter sandwich? The latest edition of "Spread the News," the newsletter of the Adult Peanut Butter Lovers Fan Club, is hot off the press.Americans are expected to eat enough peanut butter this year to fill the Grand Canyon, the newsletter claims.
The newsletter's latest edition also features a story on a Chinese doctor who gives insomniacs a teaspoon of peanut butter a day to make them sleep soundly.
"The daily teaspoonful put an end to chronic sleeplessness for hundreds of patients," the doctor at Nuclear Industry Hospital 416 in Sichuan Province is quoted as saying.
In six years, the Adult Peanut Butter Lovers Fan Club has grown to more than 60,000 members, the newsletter says.
More than 850 people attended the group's last annual meeting in November at a resort in Arizona.
Treats at a reception included peanut butter pizza, black bean and peanut butter burros, beef kabobs with ginger peanut sauce, and peanut butter cheesecake.
Per capita consumption has climbed to 3.36 pounds, which should boost total U.S. consumption to 857 million pounds this year, said the newsletter, published by the Peanut Advisory Board, an industry group in Atlanta.
But what kind of peanut butter is most popular?
According to the club's third annual survey, 47 percent of the 1,500 respondents preferred creamy, 33 percent favor crunchy and 18 percent picked natural, which is not homogenized.
The most popular combination is peanut butter and jelly, preferred by 25 percent. Others prefer peanut butter with olives, onions, bacon chips, pickles, cinnamon toast, flour tortillas, tomatoes, radishes and blue cheese. So they say.