The Crazy History of Peanuts and Peanut Butter

During the Great Depression the wealthy children of Nova Scotia brought peanut butter sandwiches to school for lunch while the poorer kids had to make do with lobster.

It's the oink followed by a long silence for me 💀

Ive learned by binge watching this channel that everything originally came from south America, therefore, nobody prior to 1492 had anything to eat. 😁

"In China, they called them foreign beans. In Japan, they called them Chinese beans" Amazing.

Fun fact: peanut butter is still called peanut cheese in Dutch: "pindakaas". I've heard this was meant to discourage the tendency to eat it on bread without butter, for butter selling reasons.

I want take a minute to appreciate all the wonderful foods that emerged from the Americas.

I love eating peanuts due to the fact that it tastes so good, long shelf life and rich in fiber and protein and it's an affordable snack. You better show the love if you love eating them.

My stepfather used to live in Savannah, Ga, and I am a native of Georgia, born in Fort Ogelthorpe. Peanuts are to Georgia like hood is to hoodie! I love them in every form but best of all I love them boiled! My dad would bring me many huge cans of boiled peanuts which were my cherished gift! Now.. where's my Reeses' peanut butter cup? ! The gift of the Gods also! Thank you Dr. Carver for your love and work with the darling tubers!

I remember hearing or seeing that a high protein food was needed for families and especially children by organizations that worked in areas with very little food available. One of the problems they would run into regularly was that the people lacked the capacity to take in enough calories to sustain themselves for a day. This is when someone came up with the idea that peanut brittle was high calorically with high protein as well. It became a go to for the workers to hand out as a way to help the people slowly gain healthy weight.

Now, these are the Fire of Learning uploads I truly can never wait for!

That “oink” was gold

No mention that the reason for rotating crops with peanuts was because, as a legume, peanuts fix nitrogen into the soil. .. or did I just miss it?

Here in Brazil, we have about thirty native Arachis species, just in Mato Grosso do Sul state. The Krao people cultivated both, Arachis hypogaea and Arachis villosa, as "mandobi". In Portuguese, we call it "amendoim". Thanks for the vídeo!

As an American in Europe I’ve been very surprised how uncommon peanut butter is. I never realized it wasn’t that popular abroad.

I was an exchange student to Sweden from the US as a teenager. I still am struggling with recovery from pstd from lack of peanutbutter.

Pindakaas is mentioned here as translating to 'peanut cheese' (it is also the modern word for peanut butter); that is how it's often interpreted by Dutch folks, however I do remember reading that the 'kaas' ("cheese") actually meant something like 'paste' or 'spread' in a local language of Suriname.

I'm Aussie, but live in Mindanao Philippines with my Filipina wife. Yes, here peanuts are common "pulutan", snacks eaten while drinking alcohol. Filipinos love peanut butter too. Here in Mindanao, peanuts are grown by farmers as the climate suits good crops. I was interested when you mentioned the name first given to the peanut, "mani". That is still the name for peanuts in all Filipino languages, obviously brought here by the Spaniards from Central America when the Philippines was administered from "Nova Espana", Mexico. They are one of my favorite snacks too!

the perfect food, chocolate and roasted peanuts. A combination that was, I was taught, popular in Mexico by the time Spain invaded.

In northern Mexico an essential snack food is a ‘Japanese Peanut’ the only difference is a coat of hardened batter.

The way you said "the goober" so seriously made me chuckle