When is National Peanut Butter Day?
Tuesday January 24thOn January 24th, National Peanut Butter Day honors an American staple in our pantries. Peanut butter, whether creamy or chunky, with chocolate or with jelly, receives the accolade it so richly deserves each year on this day.
The early peanut butter made by the Aztecs and Incas around 1000 BC was more of a paste and not nearly as creamy as the peanut butter we now know.
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Peanut butter didn't become widely used until the twentieth century. The peanut had to be considered more than animal food first, but that wasn't until the late 1800s. The peanut is a snack and wholesale food item at the turn of the century, inventions that made planting, raising, and harvesting the legume (the peanut isn't a nut at all) made it possible to see the peanut as a retail and wholesale food item.
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