Do you prefer smooth or chunky? (among other ponderables)

Deep thoughts and other idiocy...(permalink)

Myself, I prefer the latter, b/c has much more mouth feel and the possibility encountering chunky pieces of peanuts than smooth peanut butter. Let me explain.

Both chunky and smooth peanut butter can be an excellent component in, say, a peanut butter sandwich. However, I think chunky peanut butter represents its nature in a more true manner than smooth peanut butter.

It was Ferdinand de Saussure in his seminal treatise (heh, seminal) "Legume et Parole: Écrits de beurre de cacahuètes générale proposed that the connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary, and that peanut butter is innately chunky (though the mental concept "chunky" is just an arbitrary term used to describe peanut butter with hunks of peanuts suspended in the mix). Anyway, it is society that over-pulverizes it, making it smooth.

Some argue that smooth peanut butter is, the fully-realized product, and hence superior. However, they are flat out wrong. The implication of such an assertion is that the content of a product, its flavor, its enjoyability, its very soul, is improved by becoming entirely removed from its nature.

Thoughts?

And once you've finished that essay question, try this one.

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