Autistic teen wins a lifetime supply of peanut butter. He’s giving jars away to furloughed workers

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Eric “Bean" McKay, a 15-year-old autistic boy, won a lifetime's supply of peanut butter, and gave away much of his winnings to furloughed workers Jan. 23.

Eric McKay, 15, really, really likes peanut butter.

He prefers it with jelly slathered on two English muffins each day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. His mother, Tracy McKay, said he goes through a jar every three days. But his supply was running low.

Eric, who has autism, tweeted to grocery store chain Lidl to ask when peanut butter would go on sale again. His mother had bought 72 jars last February at their local store’s grand opening. The company responded with a challenge: Get 72,000 retweets, and in exchange they would give him a lifetime supply of store-brand peanut butter.

He succeeded.

With his father — a furloughed federal worker — at his side at the Lidl store in Dumfries, Va., Eric and his family gave away several peanut butter jars Jan. 23 to other workers furloughed during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Eric is planning another peanut butter giveaway Saturday.

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