The majority of people throughout the United States and around the globe have eaten this very common snack in one form or another. This common snack is known as peanut butter.
Not many people know that November is recognized as being the National Peanut Butter Lovers Month. This may come as a shock for consumers that are a giant fan of peanut butter that a month has been set aside to pay homage.
Some of us may like our peanut butter creamy and others may like it with a little rough surface, in other words, chunky or crunchy. It really depends on who is speaking.
But before peanut butter comes into existence, they must come in the form of peanuts. There are a few interesting facts about peanut butter that many people do now know:
-Peanuts are the usage mainly for the formation of peanut butter in the United States.
-No one would ever guess that approximately five hundred forty peanuts would create a twelve-ounce peanut butter jar.
-Peanut butter made its debut in the United States at the Universal Exposition in 1904 in St. Louis. C.H. Sumner had sold $705.11 of this peanut sensation at his concession stand.
-In the majority of American household, which is approximately eighty-nine percent, eat peanut butter.
-At the world's largest peanut butter factory, it makes at least two hundred fifty thousand jars on a daily basis.
-With the popular concept on peanut butter, many women and children like creamy over chunky, while many men go for chunky rather than creamy.
-It takes two grindings for the formation of peanut butter. The heat produced from one, long, grinding will cause the Peanut Butter flavor to be non-existent.
-Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of having peanut butter implanted to the roof of the mouth.
-The amount of peanut butter that is eaten within a year's time could wrap the planet Earth in a ribbon of peanut butter jars at least 1 1/3 times.
-Did you know that many of the American people spend approximately eight hundred billion dollars a year on peanut butter alone.
As an avid peanut butter eater, I did not realize how much control that this light-brown peanutty spread have in the typical American household. This is some pretty powerful stuff--in more ways than one. After we prepare our peanut butter sandwiches in our own special way (yes, many of us need the lovely company of jelly, whether it is grape, peach, apricot, or strawberry), we sink our teeth into our creation. All of the sudden, the peanut flavor takes over the taste buds. The temptation for a peanut butter sandwich is really increasing--at least for the buds. I should stop while I am ahead!
Next time when we decide to make and eat peanut butter, we should think about the "trials and tribulations" that these beautiful peanuts must go through. Power to the peanuts!
Source:
http://www.nationalpeanutboard.org/classroom-funfacts.php
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