The Incredible Peanut Butter Challenge

Thanks to everyone who responded to the questions in my last entry, we have 22 different opinions (including mine) of peanut butter from the world over. pami_zee seemed particularly enthusiastic about this and produced a Chi-whatever-you-call-it report which I didn't understand at all - I just sat gaping at it like Bernard Black doing his taxes.

I have compiled an alternative summary (with great difficulty - have you any idea how terrible OpenOffice's graph feature is?) in the commonly accepted bar graph form.


The number of responses is too small to draw any certain conclusions, but that won't stop me from doing it anyway. From the non-American side, responses were fairly mixed, but there was almost a convincing opinion against it (I am counting diarytypething's sabotage attempt as a dislike, as I'm fairly sure it's legitimate to call it that if peanuts cause your insides to detonate). The most interesting part was the second bar in the graph, which you can't see as it isn't there - no Americans admitted to disliking peanut butter at all. Though again there was an awkward one here, as kjorteo said he only liked one type of it, and I was previously unaware of there being multiple varieties of the substance.

I'm no longer sure what the conversation with Whitney was that inspired all this in the first place, but I feel I must have proved something. Maybe just that I've got a bit more time these days.