The internet is freaking out after Skippy is discontinued in Canada (2024)

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Why did they stop selling Skippy peanut butter in Canada? ›

Hormel stopped selling Skippy due to competition and pricing that hurt the brand's profitability in the Canadian market. “It was an incredibly difficult decision to withdraw Skippy peanut butter from the Canadian market,” a Hormel spokesperson told CBC News.

After a seven-year hiatus, the iconic SKIPPY^® peanut butter brand is returning to the Canadian consumer market, and doing so in innovative fashion.

First sold in 1932, Skippy is currently manufactured by Hormel Foods, which bought the brand from Unilever in 2013. It is the best-selling brand of peanut butter in China and second only to the J.M. Smucker Company's Jif brand worldwide.

SKIPPY® History

In 1933, Joseph Rosefield had the nutty idea to change the formula for peanut butter. He created SKIPPY® peanut butter, which was less sticky and longer-lasting.

Skippy Foods, LLC is voluntarily recalling 9,353 cases or 161,692 total pounds of select peanut butter products “due to the possibility that a limited number of jars may contain a small fragment of stainless steel from a piece of manufacturing equipment.”

Skippy is a brand of peanut butter manufactured in the United States and China.

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Skippy peanut butter no longer for sale in Canada; fans stockpiling last jars. Much to fans' dismay, Skippy peanut butter has been discontinued in Canada. It's still available in more than 60 countries. Owner, Hormel says it cut Canada due to factors like competition that hurt the brand's profitability.

After a seven-year drought, the popular peanut butter, Jif is back in Canada. Smucker's says it brought the product back due to "overwhelming consumer passion."

1. Jif Creamy Peanut Butter. For many years we were told that “choosy moms choose Jif,” until the brand decided to get a little more PC and take the “choosy” out of the equation. But in going through the reviews used for our list, it's very clear that peanut butter lovers choose Jif.

Is Skippy fake peanut butter? ›

Made from real peanuts, SKIPPY^® Natural Creamy Peanut Butter Spread yums up and funs up just about anything. These products have no preservatives, artificial flavors or colors.

Smucker's Natural Peanut Butter came up the most when we asked dietitians for the best peanut butter, particularly because it's economical and meets the dietitians' requirements of being made of just two ingredients: peanuts and salt. This is one of the best mainstream peanut butter brands on the market.

For their part, Hormel says it halted selling Skippy in Canada due to competition and pricing that hurt the brand's profitability. “It was an incredibly difficult decision to withdraw Skippy peanut butter from the Canadian market,” spokesperson Brian Olson wrote in an email to CBC News.

SKIPPY® Peanut Butter opened or not is happiest when stored at room temperature. You can refrigerate it to savour its flavour for longer, but know that when refrigerated, it doesn't spread as easily. You should also know that SKIPPY® Peanut Butter doesn't like being too cold, so keep it freezer-free!

Jif was the leading peanut butter brand in the United States in 2017 by a wide margin. The brand controlled over 30 percent of the market in that year, triple that of Skippy, the next largest brand.

Unilever PLC (ULVR) London took over Bestfoods Corp. in June, 2000, for $20.3-billion (U.S.), acquiring the Squirrel brand in Canada. It discontinued the Squirrel brand, marketing only the Skippy brand after its acquisition, despite Squirrel's longer history in Canada.

While they are nutritionally similar, Skippy contains 10 more milligrams of sodium than Jif and one more gram of sugar, and has fewer nutrients overall. But it does have half a milligram less saturated fat than Jif. The other main difference is how the two are sweetened. Jif uses molasses, while Skippy uses sugar.

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