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Well, there's a food going 'round
and it's a sticky, sticky goo
- Peanut, peanut butter
It tastes to good, but it's so hard to chew
- Peanut, peanut butter
People everywhere, they think it's the most
- Peanut, peanut butter
Early in the morning they put it on their toast
- Peanut, peanut butter
Chorus: I like peanut butter,
creamy peanut butter, chunky peanut butter, too!
My old dog started barking in the middle of the night
- Peanut, peanut butter
He woke up all my neighbors, I almost got in a fight
- Peanut, peanut butter
So I gave him peanut butter just to quiet him down
- Peanut, peanut butter
He chewed himself to sleep and he never made a sound
- Peanut, peanut butter
Chorus: I like peanut butter,
creamy peanut butter, chunky peanut butter, too!
I went to a dinner party and what did they eat?
- Peanut, peanut butter
I took a big bite and it stuck to my teeth
- Peanut, peanut butter
People going 'round look like they got the mumps
- Peanut, peanut butter
They were eating peanut butter in great, big hunks
- Peanut, peanut butter
Chorus: I like peanut butter,
creamy peanut butter, chunky peanut butter, too! |
There are many claims about the origin of peanut butter.
Africans ground
peanuts into stews as early as the 15th century. The
Chinese have crushed
peanuts into creamy sauces for centuries. Civil War
soldiers dined on
'peanut porridge.'
These uses, however, bore little
resemblance to peanut butter as it is known today
Peanut butter was invented and reinvented many times during history.
Peanuts were known as early as 950 B.C. and originated in South America.
The ancient Incas used peanuts and were known to have made it into
a paste-like substance. Although the peanut has a long history, having
been found in Peruvian mummy tombs, peanut butter is a relatively young
food.
As a crop peanuts emigrated from South America to Africa by early
explorers and then traveled by trade into Spain who then traded the
product to the American colonies.
The first commercial peanut crop was grown in Virginia in the early to
mid 1840's and in North Carolina beginning around 1818.
In 1890, an enterprising physician, Dr. John Kellogg (of corn flakes
fame),
created peanut butter as a healthy protein substitute that was easy to
digest
for patients with no teeth. The manufacturing process was mechanized by
George A. Bayle, Jr., and a patent for a peanut-butter machine was issued
to Abrose W. Straub in 1903.
In 1904, peanut butter came into the limelight at the St. Louis Universal
Exposition by concessionaire C. H. Sumner, where it was promoted as a
health food.
When innovative agricultural scientist Dr. George Washington Carver
developed
an improved version of the butter, it attracted even more enthusiasts.
In 1922, peanut butter was commercially-born when J. L. Rosefield of
Rosefield
Packing Company of Alameda, California perfected a process to keep the oil
from separating in the peanut butter along with spoilage prevention
methods.
He marketed this commercial peanut butter under the name Skippy® as
"churned" peanut butter, which was a smoother, creamier version of the
coarse-textured original.
An American-born favorite, peanut butter quickly became not only a
nutritious food,
but also a comfort food for most Americans born in the 1900's.
Now its popularity has spread throughout the world. October is Peanut
Butter Lover's Month.
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