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Oh, you can't call it peanut butter in the Netherlands on account of that. It's peanut cheese (pindakaas).

This is hilarious to me, as its even less like a cheese than a butter.

That's the Netherlands for you!

This makes absolutely zero sense as cheese is also a product that the peanut puree most certainly is not, what am I missing?

A non-dairy product may not be advertised as butter. This is to prevent the margarine companies from mislabeling their products as butter. Because of this, peanut butter cannot be labeled butter.

So why cheese? We don't really know.

Some theories:

- possible "germanization" of a Surinamese dish/product "Pinda-Käse"

- A product called pindadokun which literally was a block of pounded peanut that could be sliced, like with cheese

- When Calve marketed their peanut butter (Rising in popularity due to WW2), they were barred from marketing it as pindaboter, and instead used pindakaas.

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