Another Peanut Joke

Sorry for eating the peanuts

A man visits his aunt in the nursing home. It turns out that she is taking a nap, so he just sits down in a chair in her room, flips through a few magazines, and munches on some peanuts sitting in a bowl on the table.

Eventually, the aunt wakes up, and her nephew realizes he's absentmindedly finished the entire bowl. "I'm so sorry, auntie, I've eaten all of your peanuts!"

"That's okay, dearie," the aunt replied. "After I've sucked the chocolate off, I don't care for them anyway."

Our Beloved Peanut Butter

Peanuts Living a Double Life

- Nearly half of the U.S. peanut crop is made into peanut butter each year.

- November is Peanut Butter Lover's Month; March is National Peanut Month.

- Consumers prefer creamy peanut butter to chunky by a 60% to 40% ratio. Children and women prefer creamy, while most men opt for chunky.

- It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.

- In the last year, more than 75% of all American families purchased peanut butter.

- Americans eat enough peanut butter in a year to make over 10 billion peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!

- "Arachibutyrophobia" is the fear of peanut butter getting stuck to the roof of your mouth.

- Although peanut butter is considered to be a kids' food, adults actually eat more peanut butter than kids each year.

- The average American child will eat 1,500 peanut butter sandwiches by the time he or she graduates from high school.

Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

Chewy Chocolate

Peanut Butter Bars

Ingredients:

1. 1 - (16.5 ounce) roll Pillsbury(R) Create 'n Bake(R) refrigerated sugar cookies
2. 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated)
3. 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
4. 1 teaspoon vanilla
5. 3 egg yolks
6. 1 (12 ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray. Cut cookie dough in half crosswise. Cut each section in half lengthwise. With floured fingers, press dough evenly in bottom of pan to form crust. Bake 10 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, in medium bowl, mix condensed milk, peanut butter, vanilla and egg yolks until smooth.
3. Spoon milk mixture evenly over partially baked crust; carefully spread. Bake 20 to 25 minutes longer or until set.
4. Sprinkle with chocolate chips; let stand 3 minutes to soften. Spread chocolate evenly over top. Cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours. Refrigerate 30 minutes to set chocolate. For bars, cut into 6 rows by 6 rows.