Not that I'm trying to tempt you into unwisely trying peanut butter here, but it really is no one substance.
The stuff I like - Whole Earth Original Crunchy - is a lot like what you'd get if you challenged someone to embed as many chopped nuts as possible into a lump of modelling clay. That is: extremely sticky, impossibly viscous and... erm... full of nuts. Then at the other end of the spectrum you get the far cheaper "smooth" peanut butters which have the consistency of cream cheese and so much sugar in them that they taste like desserts.
In most supermarkets it's possible to get a range of stuff in between the two extremes and with varying degrees of oiliness and saltiness (varying from "quite" to "very very" of course).
And that's before you start messing with the dark arts of mixing peanut butter and chocolate spread in various proportions...
tl;dr - Liking peanut butter is a complicated business. Best leave it to the experts. ;-)
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The stuff I like - Whole Earth Original Crunchy - is a lot like what you'd get if you challenged someone to embed as many chopped nuts as possible into a lump of modelling clay. That is: extremely sticky, impossibly viscous and... erm... full of nuts. Then at the other end of the spectrum you get the far cheaper "smooth" peanut butters which have the consistency of cream cheese and so much sugar in them that they taste like desserts.
In most supermarkets it's possible to get a range of stuff in between the two extremes and with varying degrees of oiliness and saltiness (varying from "quite" to "very very" of course).
And that's before you start messing with the dark arts of mixing peanut butter and chocolate spread in various proportions...
tl;dr - Liking peanut butter is a complicated business. Best leave it to the experts. ;-)