Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Was Introduced To America In 1928

Peanut butter is a perfect food, and on March 1, we honor that perfection with National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day. Peanut butter’s superb performance as a food comes from its versatility: it can be crunchy and it can be smooth; it’s healthy, but it’s also indulgent; it can go sweet, but it can also go savory.

We like it for every meal — peanut butter toast for breakfast, peanut butter sandwiches for lunch, peanut sauce for dinner, peanut butter ice cream for dessert — and our dogs might love it even more than we do. Celebrate peanut butter with the peanut butter lovers in your life!

• 1840s – One theory about the origin of peanut butter suggests that New York-based Rose Davis began making peanut butter after her son saw Cuban women grind peanuts and smear the smooth paste on bread.
• 1884 – Marcellus Gilmore Edson is the first person to patent a peanut butter paste.
• 1898 – The oldest operating manufacturer and seller of peanut butter has been selling peanut butter since 1898.
• 1904 – Beech-Nut becomes the first major brand to market and sell peanut butter.
• 1904 – C.H. Sumner, a St. Louis businessman, starts selling peanut butter as a snack food, and he introduces it at the St. Louis World’s Fair. He sold $705.11 of the “new treat”
• 1922 – Joseph Rosenfield comes up with a way to produce smooth peanut butter and keep the ingredients from separating.
• 1928 – Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup was introduced to America in 1928.
• 1941 – Started by the Alabama Peanut Producers Association, National Peanut Week has its first celebration in early March.
• 1990 – In celebration of the anniversary of the commercial availability of peanut butter in the US, National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day is founded.
• It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
• Mr. Ed TV used peanut butter as a secret ingredient to get a horse talking.
• Americans spend almost $800 million a year on peanut butter.
• Peanut butter and banana sandwiches were the favorite sandwiches of singer Elvis Presley as well as former US president, Bill Clinton.
• Enough peanuts grow on one acre of a peanut butter farm to make approximately 35,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!
• The United States has four different cities named Peanut, in these states: California, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia. Plus, Pennsylvania also has cities named Lower Peanut and Upper Peanut.
• Peanut butter has many health benefits, including protein, Vitamin E, magnesium, selenium and more. But it is high in sugar so should be enjoyed in moderation.
• Peanut butter music:
  • Peanuts by Little Joe and the Thrillers (1957)
  • Peanut Butter by the Olympics (1991)
  • The Peanut Vendor by Dean Martin (1952)
  • Peanut Butter by the Marathons (1961)

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