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    Question Weird Household Chemistry.

    Washing up tonight, I washed out an empty Vegemite jar and a Peanut Butter jar. Then the dish water smelt like cigarette butts. OK. Now all of you go out and smell the Vegemite and peanut butter together. Am I crazy? Or did it react in some weird way to my special mix of dirty pots.:
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    Hi TL,

    Must have been a reaction to something else in the dishwasher.... I have been known to have both of those spreads together and it never smelt/tasted like cigarette butts!


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    Is your bloke stickin' his butts down the sink???

    No matter how I typed that..it didn't come out right

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    What is this 'washing up' of which you speak?

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    Quote Originally Posted by tea lady View Post
    Washing up tonight, I washed out an empty Vegemite jar and a Peanut Butter jar. Then the dish water smelt like cigarette butts. OK. :
    Hmmmmmmm. Tea Lady, when was the last time you changed the washing up water?
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    Pregnant?
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    I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodwould View Post
    Pregnant?
    possible, remember her computer was down for a while she would be at a loose end.
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    A: As any single bloke knows, Thursday is washing the damned dishes day.

    B: It's not Peanut BUTTER it's Peanut PASTE!

    C: Why on earth are you washing the jars anyway???

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    This is completely off-topic, but it really is Peanut Butter. It was called Peanut Paste in Australia because:

    When margarine was introduced to this country, a regulation was created that only butter could be called 'butter', and no other substance was to be called 'butter', so that the dairy industry was protected and also to protect the consumer from buying margarine that was incorrectly named. As a consequence of this, Peanut Butter became Peanut Paste in this country, because they weren't allowed to call it 'butter'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christopha View Post
    A: As any single bloke knows, Thursday is washing the damned dishes day.Why do all the dished run out on Thursday?

    B: It's not Peanut BUTTER it's Peanut PASTE!See below!!

    C: Why on earth are you washing the jars anyway???
    I use the empty ones in the pottery studio for storing dry materials like glaze stain.

    Quote Originally Posted by Poppa View Post
    This is completely off-topic, but it really is Peanut Butter. It was called Peanut Paste in Australia because:

    When margarine was introduced to this country, a regulation was created that only butter could be called 'butter', and no other substance was to be called 'butter', so that the dairy industry was protected and also to protect the consumer from buying margarine that was incorrectly named. As a consequence of this, Peanut Butter became Peanut Paste in this country, because they weren't allowed to call it 'butter'.

    I'm a mine of such useless information...
    But my jar has Peanut BUTTER written on it? Maybe they've changed the law, or put an "except on Peanut Butter" clause.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodwould View Post
    Pregnant?
    Why does everyone say that. And NO I'M NOT!!!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by tea lady;801146[COLOR=Blue
    ][/COLOR]I use the empty ones in the pottery studio for storing dry materials like glaze stain.

    But my jar has Peanut BUTTER written on it? Maybe they've changed the law, or put an "except on Peanut Butter" clause.
    Lookout ebay here comes a jar of Peanut Butter
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    Just had a bit of bread/butter/and a peanut derived substance.....whilst I was cooking dinner.

    Bugger me!........it was a jar of Peanut BUTTER according to the label.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poppa View Post
    This is completely off-topic, but it really is Peanut Butter. It was called Peanut Paste in Australia because:

    When margarine was introduced to this country, a regulation was created that only butter could be called 'butter', and no other substance was to be called 'butter', so that the dairy industry was protected and also to protect the consumer from buying margarine that was incorrectly named. As a consequence of this, Peanut Butter became Peanut Paste in this country, because they weren't allowed to call it 'butter'.

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    Hi Poppa, how old are you? I'm no spring chicken and as a kid I always called it peanut butter as that is what was written on the jar. I'm not saying you are wrong, just not my experience.
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    IIRC, the law applied in Queensland & maybe some other states. I don't think it ever applied in NSW, but was introduced by the Country Party Govt. to protect the dairy farmers, in the same spirit as the law that said margarine couldn't be coloured to look like butter - had to be green.
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