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11/25/2003: New Article: Superman Peanut Butter!

I said the next article would be about peanut butter, and that waddn’t no lie. Not sure how many of you remember it, but I’ll never forget Superman Peanut Butter. Might’ve been the same ol’ crap found in the jars of every other brand, but fuck me if it didn’t feel different. Review includes everything from a firsthand look at the twenty-year-old beast to two different commercial reviews and a quick review of some of Superman’s other edible adventures. Its strength…is its great taste.

Oh, for those curious as to whether anything that went on during the ‘85 and ‘86 Macy’s Parades could hold a candle to the Scooby Doo Float or the Joey Lawrence dream sequence found in the ‘84 edition, here’s something Goggles Pizano sent on in. It’s a poster he’s kept for all of these years, promoting one of the special floats we’ll be taking a look at in the next review…

Wait till you see how it looked in real life, my friends. Roll those drums and shit. By the way, we finally took out of Christmas decorations. I say “finally” because I usually start doing that by late October. My God, we have the ugliest decorations in the world. Santa Clauses of all races, broken ceramic snowmen, and even a few old tree toppers that look alarmingly like Satanic pentagrams. I’ll try to take some pics tomorrow.


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where the games are played.
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Ghosted by A-wel Cruiz @ 11/26/2003 10:24 AM EST


The Marvel float, I believe, was 1986. Correct me if I am wrong Matt. The reason I remember so well is because we were staying with realatives that Thanksgiving and I was in front of the T.V. watching the parade. Then the magic moment happened, one of the emcees introduced Marvels float and Captain America calls for all other heroes to help him defeat the bad guy (I think it was Doom) and they are all running around "fighting" as the score to back to the future was playing in the background. Now this was well before the days of X-men, Hulk and Spider man movies so this was HUGE for me. I must have started jumping up and down with joy like an idiot because my evil Aunt came and shut off the T.V. and put me in time out by the time I got back to the telly the Marvel float was long gone and I was crushed. Eh, I got a good 2 minute ‘tard workout from it though and I have never forgotten that magic moment.

Ghosted by gl2899 @ 11/26/2003 12:15 PM EST


I bet we’ll see a he-man and strawberry float this year being that there "in" again.

Ghosted by kennef @ 11/26/2003 2:00 PM EST


Superman peanut butter? That’s going a little bit too far.At least the kryptonite rocks made sense.Damn,you 80’s kids are damn lucky.Seeing a Marvel float?Wow,I’ll never get that priveledge.

Ghosted by Icymatt @ 11/26/2003 2:00 PM EST


On the subject of your last parade…Someone knew who Robert Vaughn was…I know who Desiree Goyette was; she was the replacement voice of Betty Boop and she had a large involvement in all the Garfield TV specials, and maybe the Garfield series.

Ghosted by Mars @ 11/26/2003 4:19 PM EST


Hey Matt, crazy idea here, you may want to post those new Macy’s parade reviews BEFORE thanksgiving, just a thought.

Ghosted by The Dude @ 11/26/2003 4:38 PM EST


I’m pretty sure there’s Donald Duck . . .grapefruit juice (or something a bit odd, anyway) at the liquor store about a block from here. I’d check, but I’m broke, and I don’t really want to have to explain to the guy that runs the place what I’m doing.

Ghosted by Milke @ 11/26/2003 6:08 PM EST


I know there’s going to be a Little Bill balloon, of all things, but that’s about it.

Ghosted by Freezair @ 11/26/2003 8:31 PM EST


Well, in both the Lois & Clark show (cheesy as it was) and in the comics (post-Crisis) there was the same explaination of why his suit didn’t get (that) dirty (unless he was REALLY getting messed up by the flavor of the week or month) because of the proximity to his body. This also explained how he could fly without any problems (i.e. windburn) or run like the dickins. Pre-Crisis, it was because his suit was made from material that was in his capsule, making it from Krypton and therefore invunerable too. Hey, it took until the fifties and the rise of Superboy for them to pull that little nugget out. Anyhoo, I was definitely a big fan of the peanut butter, but then, I always wanted to be the Flash when we played superfriends. Odd, I know, so I’m not exactly the arbiter of normalcy.

Ghosted by KatarHol @ 11/26/2003 11:34 PM EST


Did they ever have Aquaman jam? They could have called it Aquajam in a delicious piece of word play!

Ghosted by Feral @ 11/27/2003 6:24 AM EST


Pleae, PLEASE, PLEASE post the live-action Superman PB commercial too!!!!

Ghosted by anonymous @ 11/27/2003 9:08 AM EST


You bring back so many memories.

I don’t actually remember eating the stuff, but I had an empty jar for years. (I thought that the logo on top of the jar was cool!)

Thanks to a SMPB promo, I have a re-print of Action Comics #1.

Ghosted by Guiderman @ 11/28/2003 8:58 AM EST


Yes, PLEASE post the live-action commercial!

Ghosted by Wally @ 12/01/2003 10:33 AM EST


Apparently at one time, Superman peanut butter was availible in huge plastic buckets, because thats what I used for my childhood crayon bucket!

Ghosted by Phil the Scumdog @ 01/07/2004 1:31 AM EST


Apparently at one time, Superman peanut butter was availible in huge plastic buckets, because thats what I used for my childhood crayon bucket!

Ghosted by Phil the Scumdog @ 01/07/2004 1:31 AM EST


I remember the Superman peanut butter, but I only remember drinking the hot
cocoa. It was damn good!

BTW, does anyone remember the TV spot for Superman hot cocoa?? I remember
seeing the commercial and buying the cocoa well into ‘84-’85. The commercial
was very similar to the Peanut Butter ones, only (from what I remember) it
started out showing a cold, wintery scene. Two kids sitting at a dinner table
after coming in from the cold and their mom gives them Superman cocoa to drink
and warm up with. They look at the box and Superman pops out and tells them
something…probably that the cocoa would give them strength from the cold or
something. That’s all I can remember, but I don’t remember Superman popping
out of the box for me! :-(

I can also remember eating the Superman pretzels, which IIRC were around for a
little while longer than the cocoa and peanut butter. There was also a whole
lot of other Superman paraphernalia around in the late ’70s/’80s, including
Superman lunch bags, plastic capes you could order from the back of the
Justice League figurine boxes, and I even remember seeing "real" Kryptonite in
some comic books back then! Funny all the stuff we were bombarded with back in
the ’80s!

Ghosted by Strike @ 05/08/2004 10:53 AM EDT


Well, okay I’ll admit it here … Superman PB is one PB I have not tried! I wasn’t old enough to be around when it was produced, but it certainly sounds fun & quite a nostalgic addition to the PB shelf. Loved your blog and will certainly look to adding a new post in my own Peanut Butter blog, “All The Peanut Butter That’s Fit To Print!” Got the code for the Superman PB video ready to go. Thanks for the fascinating history for us youngings :)

~ Miss Peanut Butter Lover

Shack this!

Ghosted by Miss Peanut Butter Lover @ 08/21/2006 11:07 AM EDT


I liked Supey’s PB !! I could only find it at the local KMart back in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
Was sorry to see it go. In the category of ragging on anything Superman: notice the vidcap of Lex dipping a cracker into the PB. I may be crazy but does it seem as tho Lexxy has TWO right hands? I enjoyed the discussion on one of my favorite snacks. PB in general and Superman PB in particular.

Ghosted by Rick @ 05/18/2007 12:27 PM EDT


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