Uncontrollable

“If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.” (Bill Watterson)

Peanuts are responsible for some of America's much loved foods. Peanuts and peanut butter make up the main ingredient for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Snickers, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. It’s wonderful to mix with bananas and honey. Your addicted to it, and there's little you can do to untangle yourself from its grasp.

Peanut butter is calming and delicious by the spoonful's. It brings back vivid childhood memories for many of us. There are many interesting fun facts about this nutty spread. How much do you think you know about peanut butter?

Peanut Info

1.   Africans grounded peanuts into stews as early as the 1400's; Chinese have crushed peanuts into creamy sauces for centuries; and Civil War soldiers dined on peanut porridge. Peanut butter was considered a delicacy in the early 1900's.  Peanut butter was first patented in Canada in 1884 by a man who lived in Quebec.

2.   An average American child consumes about 1500 peanut butter sandwiches during the journey from school to college.

 

3.   Ancient Incans used peanuts for sacrificial ceremonies and religious rites. They knew the value of this scrumptious legume, obviously.

 

4.   Archibutyrophobia (pronounced A’-ra-kid-bu-ti-ro-pho-bi-a) is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.

5.   As for peanut butter, women and children opt for the creamy variety while men prefer the chunky style. People living on the East Coast of America favor creamy peanut butter while West Coasters choose the crunchy kind.

6.   Boiled peanuts are considered a delicacy in the peanut growing areas of the South. Freshly harvested peanuts are boiled in supersaturated salt water until they are of a soft bean like texture. They are frequently enjoyed at the end of the day with a favorite beverage.

 

7.   George Washington Carver was known as the “plant doctor” and the “grandfather of peanuts.” Though he did not invent peanut butter, he discovered many ways to use peanut s by innovative farming methods. This includes crop diversification and soil conservation.

 

8.   Goober (a nickname for peanuts) comes from “nguba,” the Congo name for peanut.

 

9.   It might be cancer-fighting. Girls between the age of nine and fifteen who regularly ate peanut butter were thirty-nine percent less likely to develop benign breast disease by the age of thirty.

 

10.               It takes about 540 peanuts to make a twelve ounce jar of peanut butter.

 

11.               March is National Peanut Month; while November is National Peanut Butter Lovers Month.

 

12.               Of all the peanut butter sold in the United States. Eighty percent is smooth  while only seventeen percent is crunchy.

 

13.               One acre of peanuts will make thirty thousand peanut butter sandwiches.

 

14.               Peanut butter may help lower your cholesterol. Peanut butter contains antioxidants and other oleic acid that is helpful in preventing type 2 diabetes and aids in weight loss.

 

15.               Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter as well as singer Luke Bryan were all peanut farmers.

 

16.               Peanut shells are used to make kitty litter; wallboard, fireplace logs, paper and animal feed, and is used as fuel for power plants.

 

17.               Peanuts are not actually nuts at all! They are legumes, which are like beans, peas, and lentils.

 

18.               The early introduction of peanuts dramatically reduced the prevalence of peanut allergies (even if the child stopped eating peanuts when he or she got older). About one point three percent of the American population is allergic to peanuts.

  

19.               The world’s largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich was made in Grand Saline, TX. It weighed 1,342 pounds.

 

20.               There are six cities in the U.S. named Peanut: Peanut, CA; Lower Peanut, PA; Upper Peanut, PA; Peanut, PA, Peanut, TN; and Peanut, WV.

 

21.               There’s a jar of peanut butter in seventy-five percent of the homes in the.

 

22.               We spend almost $800 million a year on peanut butter in the United States.

 

“You can’t please everybody all the time. You aren’t peanut butter.” (Anonymous)[i]

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[i] Sources used:

·        “15 Fun Facts about Peanut Butter” by Robin Shreeves

·        “16 Fun Facts about Peanuts & Peanut Butter”  (http://nationalpeanutboard.org/peanut-info/fun-facts.htm)

·        “16 Unforgettable Facts about Peanut Butter” by PositiveMed Team
“Spread-worthy Facts” (http://peanutbutterlovers.com/pb-overs/pb101/facts/)

·        Spread-worthy Factspblovers2017-02-24T21:31:19+00:00 “5 Things You Didn't Know about Peanut Butter” by Fox News 

·        “10 Things You Didn't Know About Peanut Butter” by AOL.com Editors 

·        “15 Nutty Facts about Peanuts” by Miriam Porter

·        “15 Things You Didn't Know About Peanut Butter” by Erin La Rosa

·        “8 Amazing Facts about Peanut Butter You Never Knew “by Lindsay Mannering