SKIPPY went HIPPIE!!!

A guy can live 28 years, plotting along with the knowledge that at least a few things in his life will remain constant. The sun will come up, you can have too much of a good thing (i.e. whiskey), 90% of the people that work in Hollywood are completely nuts, and for me Skippy Super Chunk Peanut Butter is the peanut butter staple in my life. Sure, there are other kinds of peanut butter: gourmet peanut butter, natural peanut butter, vegan peanut butter, creamy, chunky...but I had settled in with Skippy Super Chunk. It was what I grew up on, what I built my foundation on, the peanut butter I had come to know and trust. I even occasionally bought it in the big tubs!

This morning when I walked into the kitchen here at our production office to make myself some peanut butter toast for breakfast I saw something that made my mouth drop. Skippy had gone hippie! All natural, Skippy brand Super Chunk peanut butter!!! In my days I had tried other brands, other kinds, I tried to learn to enjoy the kinds that I knew were better for me but I always returned to the Skippy SC, but this could change everything. Is it possible that I could continue to eat my favorite brand and ALSO eat more healthy?! But would it pass the taste test...

I sat down with my two pieces of wheat bread smothered in the new brand of PB, a tall paper cup of OJ flanking it's back side. I waited for a moment, completely aware of the momentous journey that I was about to embark upon. I picked up the first slice and after a deep breath I bit down.

Nothing.

Really, nothing. No difference. I couldn't tell that I was eating more healthy, it tasted the same! In my mind I was consuming my same peanut butter, but somewhere deep inside my body I was not adding oil to my system.

Change of job, change of city, things that would be considered huge for most people but for me - Change of Peanut butter! this could really be huge.