Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/06/a-brief-history-of-peanut-butter.html
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Peanut butter is one of the most delicious foods on the face of the earth. On this, I will not be moved.
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I’d heard this recently - that GWC didn’t invent peanut butter - but he DID discover ~300 different uses for peanuts. What an amazingly versatile legume!
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I have it on good authority that Edward “Skippy” Williamson and Frederick “Jif” Armstrong – two white men – stole George Washington Carver’s recipe for peanut butter, copyrighted it, and reaped untold fortunes from it.
EDIT: typo
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It’s getting easier finding the real stuff in the US. When I was a kid almost every brand of the stuff was a combo of PB and sugar.
Yecch.
Peter Pan, Jif, they took nutrition and turned it into candy.
I swear at 65, I have never gotten tired of a PBJ.
When I first moved to Australia in 1972 I tried ordering a PBJ as my first lunch stop. They looked at my quizzically. Later I found out they though I was asking for peanuts, butter, and jello. Over there it’s peanut paste and jam, though I’m the only one I saw eating it that way in the three years I lived there.
And of course in the history of the mighty PBJ, let’s offer a quick nod to the Jefferson Airplane who saw the sammy as being symbolic of all they saw as American in the 1960s
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One of my favorite sammiches is peanut butter, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise, with freshly ground black pepper.
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I call America-centric bullshit: What about the 1884 patent filed by Marcellus Edson of Montreal? Doesn’t that count as “invent[ing] the modern incarnation of peanut butter,” 11 years before Kellogg?
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An invitation to anaphylaxis in our household. I can eat it but my spouse would be life-threateningly sick in minutes. We normally use SunButter, a staple in our cupboard. NoNuts is a good Canadian PB substitute but we rarely have it.
PB&Js are tasty, but my favorite is crunchy peanut butter and crystallized honey taken from my grandfather’s beehives, on homemade country white bread made by my grandmother with the same honey. I ate so many of those as a kid.
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Yeah, PB is so versatile with savouries. Kimchi and PB is delicious. PB & Yam stew, yum.
Way back when my job had me burning upwards of 5000 calories daily at barely minimum wage, one of my favored treats was a cup of cheap chunky PB mixed with a cup of cheap honey, both bought at Grocery Outlet aka GrossOut aka Dented Cans. We do what we must.
We had a place here for a while that I called “Scratch and Dent Grocery.” My kid said don’t call it that, that’s rude. Then I pointed out to her that the sign had the actual name of the place as “Salvage Foods.”
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de gustibus non est disputandum
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