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18 December 2008

Peanut Butter as American Virtue

Next month I leave for France. And now that I'm back with my parents for the next couple of weeks, my dad's working tirelessly to keep me from going. (He did this before I left for New York, too, up until the day I stepped onto the plane.)

To keep arguments from becoming repetitive, he offers a different reason every day. Today's rationale was lobbed early this morning, after passing me a cocktail of multivitamins.

Dad: "Take these now. It's probably the last time you'll have all your nutrients before coming back from France."

Me: "They have multivitamins in France."

Dad: "Those people can't do anything right. They couldn't even win the war." Thoughtful pause. "They don't have peanut butter in Europe."

Me: "Is that why they appealed to the Americans for aid?"

Dad: "Don't be a smart-ass."

Me: "Did you look everywhere in Europe?"

Dad: "They don't have peanut butter there. Can you believe that?"

Me: "I don't like peanut butter."

Dad: "What do you mean, you don't like peanut butter? You grew up on peanut butter."

Me: "That doesn't mean I have to like peanut butter."

Dad: "Peanut butter is the reason why you're smart."
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:20 PM

    Don't they eat that stuff that the Italians do made from Hazlenuts - Nutella? I thought everyone in Europe ate that. It's their take on the nutty butter stuff. Like soccer is to football or futbol is to football...

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  2. Candace5:27 PM

    I really missed peanut butter while living in France. They've got it in Egypt, but not in France.

    And french women don't eat Nutella. Too fattening... and it's a "kid's" food...

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  3. Olivier Travers3:30 AM

    You can find peanut butter in France but it's not an everyday type of food for sure. Nutella is awesome, especially in crèpes. Power tip: microwave Nutella for 30 seconds, then pour on vanilla ice cream, in a crèpe. Thank me once you're in heaven.

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  4. Angela Natividad7:30 AM

    Diggin' how this thread turned into a Nutella tangent.

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  5. Kelly Eidson5:53 PM

    You gotta give it to your dad - that was a whole lot of effort to try to string different types of logic into the argument:

    1 - If you go to France, you won't be healthy (multivitamins)

    2 - If you go to France, you'll become useless, just like the French (not winning the war, not even having peanut butter)

    3 - If you go to France, you won't be smart (because peanut butter made you that way)

    Three attempts to make vast leaps of logic - he must love you or something.

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  6. Angela Natividad11:37 PM

    Kelly -- he's a shockingly cunning man. Unfortunately for him, I am armed with Logic™.

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