Trying on a new flavour is always an adventurous job because one has no idea how it will turn out to be. A case in point is mayonnaise, which now seems to be available in previously unimaginable flavours but not everyone hits the nail on the head. Moreover, as a workout buff, this writer is picky about peanut butter, as it makes for the ideal pre-workout snack on slices of bread, and who wants to begin their day with an awful taste in their mouth?

This is why we approached gunpowder-flavoured peanut butter by Tooth Mountain with extreme apprehension. Turns out, we needn’t have. When you hear the word gunpowder, your thoughts need not wander too far from the podi chutneys ground in the kitchens of South India. You’re on the right track!