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peanut butter
noun a smooth paste made from finely ground roasted peanuts, used as a spread, etc. Compare peanut paste.
Contributor's comments: [Adelaide informant] When I was a kid it was always peanut paste but I notice now that it is peanut butter.
Contributor's comments: Peanut "butter" is almost never used in South Australia, except for people under the age of about 15. As with WA, "peanut paste" was the accepted form because the SA dairy farmers won a court case (a long time ago, I believe it has now changed) banning the use of "butter" in non-dairy foods.
Contributor's comments: [SE Qld informant] UGH! This really bugs me. There is no butter in it. It is peanut PASTE. Unfortunately, it's marketed exclusively as peanut butter to cater for the Americanization of the language :-(
Contributor's comments: Peanut butter is far more common than peanut paste in Queensland. I have rarely if ever heard peanut paste here.
Contributor's comments: Lived Sydney suburbs until 1999 - was told in the 1960s that Queenland regulations did not allow "butter" could only be used for dairy product, hence "paste" had to be used.
Contributor's comments: I come from Victoria originally and now live in NSW. I have never heard the term peanut paste. It has always been peanut butter to me. It doesn't really matter though, I can't stand the stuff!
Contributor's comments: As a kid in SW Riverina it was always peanut butter - we'd never heard the expression peanut paste. When I moved to Perth in the early 80s peanut paste was going strong, and people were very defensive about it too. Now my WAussie kids and all their friends use peanut butter almost exclusively, and even the old WAussies are giving up on peanut paste.
Contributor's comments: I lived in Queensland until I was 31 and always said peanut paste. When I moved to Tasmania I found that it was Peanut Butter.
Contributor's comments: As a child in Brisbane we always used peanut paste. Different labels were printed for different States, but now there is only one label saying peanut butter.
Contributor's comments: Growing up in Perth in the 19702 we used both terms, but these days everyone I know, of all ages in Perth and elsewhere in WA, uses the term 'peanut butter'
Contributor's comments: Growing up in Qld in the 1960s & 70s, we never used the term 'peanut butter'. It was always 'peanut paste'. Thanks to the power of the dairy lobby & the peanut farmer premier. Butter could only legally describe that stuff made from cream, not crushed oily nut pastes.
Contributor's comments: It was always peanut butter in Melbourne, but paste in Perth and Sydney. Befuddled my young mind!
Contributor's comments: I thought the Americans called it "peanut paste"...it was always (Kraft) peanut butter in Victoria.
Contributor's comments: I grew up on a dairy farm in NE NSW, and always referred to this as peanut butter, never as peanut paste.