There’s caffeinated water, caffeinated gum, even caffeinated beef jerky (it’s called Perky Jerky, no joke). Now, add caffeinated peanut butter to the list of things you didn’t know you needed until today. A single serving (2 tablespoons, if you’re curious) of the caffeine-nutbutter, made by Massachusetts-based company Steem, apparently has as much zip as two cups of coffee.
According to Steem’s website, it’s supposedly energy-sustaining due to the “naturally slow digestion of peanut butter.” But that’s kind of peanut butter’s schtick already. Regardless, your toast just got a little bit more chipper. It’s not in stores in the Chicago area, but get it online. Just please don’t feed it to your dog.
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![“Let the music do the talking,” sang Phish vocalist-guitarist Trey Anastasio at the outset of the band’s concert Saturday at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Normally, hearing that advice from a well-disciplined virtuoso who seemingly never tires of the stage and worships the groove would pass without a hint of potential irony. However, given the group was not even one minute into the third of its sold-out four-night stand at the $2.3 billion dome — expressly devised to push sensory boundaries to previously uncharted limits — one couldn’t help wonder how seriously Phish would take its own instruction. Turns out […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CTC-L-ENT-PHISH-04-e1713888536637.jpg?w=620 "“Let the music do the talking,” sang Phish vocalist-guitarist Trey Anastasio at the outset of the band’s concert Saturday at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Normally, hearing that advice from a well-disciplined virtuoso who seemingly never tires of the stage and worships the groove would pass without a hint of potential irony. However, given the group was not even one minute into the third of its sold-out four-night stand at the $2.3 billion dome — expressly devised to push sensory boundaries to previously uncharted limits — one couldn’t help wonder how seriously Phish would take its own instruction. Turns out […]")