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Alexandra Brown asked this question about Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse:
Currently reading 'Shadows of the Workhouse' I've just read a bit about spreading peanut butter - I wasn't aware of peanut butter being known in Britain until fairly recently ie. it came over from USA. I first tasted it (and loved it immediately) in the early 60s when I lived amongst Americans in West Africa. Can anyone put me right on this? I'd love the author Jennifer Worth to comment.
Tim Kimball as a young u s army soldier on a wonderful delay on route [free vacation] i remember peanut butter offered for breakfast at a london b&b in spring 196…moreas a young u s army soldier on a wonderful delay on route [free vacation] i remember peanut butter offered for breakfast at a london b&b in spring 1966. it was considered 'savory. ' matching peanut butter with jam was considered absurd. it seemed widespread [ha!] by then, tho not pb&j.

jane's story does not do ms. worth credit, horrible imaging presented as fact. the workhouse system WAS horrible but worth's story borders on pornographic and certainly did NOT come from poor jane.(less)
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