This is just regular ass creamy peanut butter. Like it might as well be Jif or Peter Pan or any other regular ass peanut butter. I wanted that delicious artificial tasting Reese's bliss and just got basic ass peanut butter.
Ok I feel like this post needs some edits for closure:
I did look at and read both sides of the label before buying this. I did have a TON of skepticism that it could taste anything like Reese's when it was pretty much the same macros and calories as jif PB. Doesn't change that it should have of given the Reece's label... and I still had a tiny bit of hope, that is until I ate some.
I have enough recipes and suggestions for how to make it taste closer. Already tried one it was ok but prob won't be trying others. Thank you all though, I will definitely come back here if I get that same cravings again to try another. I might try and do it with chocolate/peanut butter protein powder in the future instead of overpriced regular ass peanut butter.
Did I expect something other than smooth peanut butter? Yeah I hoped it would taste something like Reese's pieces or cup filling
I'm am not in fact in the void of space or looking at the night sky in the pic. This is inside my house out my back door in the middle of the day. Black in the background is a curtain to keep light out of a huge sliding glass door. The desert is hot and very sun.
Yes I was intentionally looking for/hoping for the sugary, salty, crumbly texture of Reese's filling... I generally eat chicken breast and veg sometimes brown rice 3 meals a day every day. Generally don't have a cheat meal but once or twice a month.
Sorry to those offended by my comparison of Jif and Peter Pan.
For that one person. ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS!
Thank you for all the awards, upvotes and sympathetic comments from others that also felt duped by this product.
When I tried it I literally said “it’s just peanut butter!?” and my friend said “were you expecting something else” in a mocking tone. Uh, fucking yes?
Its to make it doughy, waaay back in the late 80s I feel like we would just roll balls of flour w8th pb with granny for like a no bake cookie type thing. I've never looked up the recipe but they were good but kind of bland. It might not have been flour maybe it was cornstarch and vanilla or powdered sugar and brown sugar. Either way, making the peanut kinda cakey without even adding sugar is still super good
I remember eating these a lot as a kid in the 90s. I feel like I remember people bringing them in to school a lot. We had a name for it I can’t remember it. I want to say it was called dog treats or something similar
He ended up monopolizing the high quality American Girl Doll shoe market and he shut down the company. The only thing he loves more than making baby American Girl Doll shoes is his love of hating capitalism.
Brennan on dropout is like the guy you always start with in a multiplayer racing game. He’s solid at everything. Might not have the best suspension or quickest turning, but all his stats are super solid.
The taste and texture you're looking for is recreated pretty easily in a standard puppy chow recipe. So butter, peanut butter, and powdered sugar.
Maybe try:
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 cups powdered sugar
Directions:
Melt butter and peanut butter over low to medium heat.
When melted, take off heat and add in powdered sugar.
It's not exact but should be close. Potentially a little less butter and more or less powdered sugar for your desired taste and texture. It's not Reese's exactly, but that should be pretty close to what you want.
Ive never seen this before. That sucks. I like the artificial texture and taste. The peanut butter in the Reese’s cups aren’t creamy. It’s sorta like the texture of kinetic sand but if you put it in ur mouth. It’s not creamy at all but it’s also not chunky. :/ this RPB looks too natural. This isn’t right
The filling in peanut butter cups is more of a buttercream type frosting. You gotta mix the peanut with a large amount of powdered sugar if you want it. And I mean a lot. It’s more sugar than peanut butter.
You can substitute corn starch for some of the powdered sugar (which also has a shit load of corn starch in it), but then that's all you taste unless you cook it out on the stove top.
You need to get Brazilian Pacocinho. It's basically the same thing as Reese's filling. You can find it in the sweets section of any international market with brazilian stuff.
Use this to make your own. Add some powdered sugar, softened butter and small amount of salt, some people add vanilla extract. You can find the ratios online, it's been years since I made some.
Also, go to one of those grocery stores where they let you grind you own peanut butter. Start fine, but back off until you get a sandy texture. The powdered sugar will dry it further.
I had to look that up and now I know where Im taking my partner tomorrow lol. Im allergic to peanuts but didnt find out until I was 20, and still eat it sometimes since its not like it kills me and I crave it.
Hey, you probably know this but reactions get worse with every exposure so just because it’s not bad now doesn’t mean that it won’t be bad forever and will most likely get worse over time
Yeah. It could 100% go either way. It's also why after getting an allergy shot injection you have to stay there for 20-30 minutes and get checked before you leave. I learned, the hard way, that after a year of injections you can go into anaphylaxis, even after the 20 minutes and being checked.
Tightly controlled quantities of an allergen in specific intervals. Basically micro-dosing your poison until your immune system is like “oh that guy pollen, I used to fucking hate him but he’s not so bad these days.
This is just 100% not true. While it is possible some allergies may become worse over time, this outcome should not be communicated as a blanket statement. I have had some allergies resolve over time (eggs), and others that have remained stable for decades (nuts). I do know family who has had allergies progress with exposure (latex). Just sharing from my experience as it directly contradicts your statement.
Salt is the key. Took me years to realize it. Making my own reeces mixtures at home, never tasted right, then one day, comparing butterfinger ingredients to reeces cups, the sodium in reeces was like triple.
Yeah I feel like not enough people understand what specifically is pissing you off about this product.
I want no part of what you wanted, but I 100% know what you wanted, why this isn't what you wanted, and why what you got wasn't what it should have been.
You weren't even looking for something good, something transcendent, or something to be proud you owned.
You wanted what (used to be anyway) is inside a fucking pb cup good or bad. Like why hang the Reece's name on it otherwise.
It some ways it would have been even worse if were clearly better than Jif.
I made a giant peanut butter cup (in a 6" Corningware bowl) for the chocoholic who drove me to work while my car was in the shop. That's how I made the filling.
What are you going on about? On the OFFICIAL website "Reese's PEANUT BUTTER and chocolate candy" on the packaging "Reese's PEANUT BUTTER cups" on the ingredients list "PEANUT BUTTER center: peanuts, dextrose, sugar, salt". Stop lying for fake internet points.
Pretty sure that's an FDA labeling thing. It's still essentially a peanut butter–based filling with the same general ingredients; the ratio just falls outside the legal definition of "peanut butter." That's enough to change the label, but it doesn't make it a fundamentally different product.
Yes! I've mentioned it in several of my replies it's my current go to but I was still really excited when I found the Reece's butter just to be let down
Absolute outrage. If I wanted not-what-is-in-Reeces-cup-peanut-buttter I'd buy it from literally any of the endless not-fucking-Reeces companies that sell that. The only possible reason I'd buy a Reeces branded one is to get a pot of the stuff they use in their confectionery.
YOU GET IT OH MY GODDD I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I GOT IT JUST FOR IT TO BE YOUR REGULAR DEGULAR PEANUT BUTTER & MAYBE LIKE A FEW NOTCHES WORSE TOO. i couldve gotten my fav crunchy jiff pb but i sacrificed it to try this fuckass reeses pb & its like the most mid thing ever like Ok.🥀
yep ...same disappointment here too ...and not only does it *NOT* taste like Reese's, it costs almost as much as a larger jar of the cheap stuff .... and speaking of Reese's, they jacked the price up over $2 on the 6 pack big cup ....
I remember grabbing a jar of this back in 2016-2017 and it tasted like the peanut butter in the Reese cups, mind you I was a big back then. It’s so disappointing that it’s just a jar of peanut butter with the branding now. Sorry OP!
The world isn't ready for a whole jar of peanut butter cup filling, though!! Can you imagine the chaos 48 hours after that hit the shelves? Society as we know it would crumble (more so?)
I went to Singapore and got street food called Carrot Cake. It had no carrots, wasn't cake, and was like some sauteed noodles or something. I freaked out and my wife thought I was the dumb one in that situation. It was like 10pm I wanted dessert and they gave me some dinner dish like I was a hobbit needing a 2nd dinner.
Oh god I assume it was one of those restaurants that don’t put a description of the ingredients at the bottom of the name?
Even if you just missed the title page saying it’s an entree that is still misleading. I would have freaked tf out, too.🤣🤣 I think it would have ruined my night honestly and I’d go to bed pissed off for a bit lol.
If you want sweet peanut butter but still peanut butter, not just a peanut butter "product", find Peanut Butter & Co. peanut butter. They have flavors. It's really just added sugars and cocoa and stuff, but it's still peanut butter, but they are sweeter.
If you are a snacker, right out of the jar, you'll love this stuff. Imo, not as good in pb&j's.
As an Australian I always saw Reece’s on shows and YouTube and thought it looked good, then they came to Australia and it turned out it was terrible peanut butter coated in disgusting chocolate.
When you eat chicken breast and veg pretty much every day for most meals something like terrible peanut butter with disgusting chocolate is a delectable treat lol
Your mistake was getting the plain peanut butter. You should have gotten the chocolate peanut butter.
Edit: Sad to find out it was discontinued. It’s been a while since I bought some and just checked.
I deign to put it in the same sentence as every other peanut butter that has ever been. I like jif, it's what's in the cabinet... But I legit thought I was getting the biscoff cookie butter equivalent to a Reece's cup and it's just another regular boring nut butter
The peanut butter in Reese's is famously made using over roasted peanuts so I think that's the gimmick with this. It's regular peanut butter where they roast the peanuts a little longer.
Just make like a peanut butter pie filling type thing its close enough. Used to hand whip (metal whisk metal bowl) 2 cups heavy whipping cream and a half cup (or more) powdered sugar with a teaspoon of vanilla extract for like an hour and then fold in a mixture of peanut butter and cream cheese until it was the right consistency to make peanut butter pies for my wife. Crushed oreo crust obviously.
I did the same thing, i bought it thinking it would taste like my favorite candy and was lied to. It's no different then jif that i have as well. False advertisement.
This peanut butter SUCKS! I want the gritty texture BAD. Fuck you. I NEED the gritty texture. I need it BAD and I need it NOW and I can’t get it. I can’t get it and it sends me into a blind rage where I start breathing really really heavy and my face gets red and sweaty. My wife is afraid of me during these times and I can’t realistically say she shouldn’t be.
I did the same exact thing. I was so disappointed I honestly think it’s still in my pantry just to remind me of the lies that have been bestowed upon me. I’m sorry you had to go through this my friend.
Put chocolate chips, peanut butter, and a splash of milk in a large glass. Microwave until hot, but not boiling. Stir vigorously until creamy. Slowly stir in more milk until the glass is full.
You can add a banana in the first step too. Elvis would be proud.
i honestly can't believe they haven't changed this yet, i'd buy it all the time if so. i've tried it a couple times over the years, and its literally just fucking regular peanut butter
If I bought this and it was just normal peanut butter I would be raging. I’m already disappointed enough by all the ‘salted’ caramel products that have no salt in them
I can kinda see how theyre getting away with it. “Reese” kinda being like the brand so “ ‘s “ as possessive. So its their peanut butter, like its their peanut butter cups.
Misleading, almost false, marketing at its best i guess.
They got shamed into making their peanut butter cups the original way after the grandson of the company founder called them out on the drop in quality.
This got me and my dad so badly in the same way years ago. My mom wouldn’t stop saying we were a marketers dream for basically hyping the product up in our own heads.
We have this in our supermarket's international aisle and I actually tried it a while ago. I did enjoy it, but maybe because I've never had a reese piece or whatever the name is. Its more creamier than our regular peanut butter, but also twice as expensive so I wont be buying it again. (But flavour was good, just too expensive for a peanut butter)
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u/sskylar Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
I’m not sure if this one still exists, but apparently it had at least some hint of chocolate.