[exhilaration]

No I think it's because up until recently, American parents were told to avoid giving young kids peanuts or peanut butter.

Israel has very low rates of peanut allergies and peanut butter is the main ingredient in a popular snack:

Peanut snacks called Bamba, which are made of peanut butter and corn, are wildly popular in Israel, where parents give them to their kids when they're very young. That's very different from what parents do in Britain and the United States, where fears about food allergies have prompted many parents to keep their children away from peanuts, even though the American Academy of Pediatrics revised a recommendation to do so in 2008.

- https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/23/388450621/fe...