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Can you tell the real SKIPPY® peanut butter from the phony boloney?
One thing that I thought I’d miss about the states when I moved to China was peanut butter. I don’t miss it, because you can get SKIPPY® at a few of the Western friendly shops, both creamy and chunky. I have a peanut butter sans jelly sandwich everyday for lunch.
OK, so I’m a creature of habit.
Along with getting the small jars of SKIPPY at Westernista stores, I discovered you can get a wholesale size jar at Chinese Wholesale markets. These wholesale markets are a far cry from Costco or Sam’s club, but you can clean up on your favorite American products at better prices. That’s where we got a deal on a wheel of gouda cheese the size of a small child. You can also get mustard, mayo for a few mao.
Long blog made short, I got a mega jar of extra chunky SKIPPY from the wholesale market for about the price of regular size jar at Walmart. But after close examination of the label, I realized it wasn’t SKIPPY. It was phony boloney!
The taste wasn’t weird, it stuck to the roof of my mouth the way good peanut butter should, but the SKIPPY name was missing from the front of the label!
Then, where the name SKIPPY did appear, the letters were a bit different, sorta like when you tried to forge your mother’s signature on a not to school as a kid. Close, but no cigar. Notice the white outline around the font. Also, the letters are a bit squished together.
Plus, the SKIPPY name was missing the coveted “circle R” registered trademark. Even bootleggers have a code of ethics. They can get more than their hands slapped if their faux pas product implies that it is trademarked when it is not.
The back side was missing more critical information, like the UNILEVER name (the conglomerate that controls the brand worldwide).
I contacted Unilever’s customer care department telling them about the questionable product in China. I even sent them a few snapshots of the label. They didn’t seem to care.
The bootleg butter didn’t kill me, but I’m not going to take any chances. I remember a few years back in the states, several people died due to salmonella poisoning from peanut butter.
Let’s see if you can spot the real deal from the bootleg butter. Your tastebuds may not be able to tell the difference.