WEBVTT - How Peanut Butter Works 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:03.400 Welcome to stuff you should know a production of my 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:12.360 heart radios how stuff works. Hey, and welcome to peanut 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.480 butter jelly time. I'm Josh. There's Chuck. We haven't seen 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.720 Jerry in a while. If you have seen Jerry, please 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.960 tell her to call home. Uh. And this is stuff 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:26.439 you should know. Yeah, Jerry, she snata in a smoke 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:31.200 signal that said send to me. So she did, she did, 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.280 and we send some on donkey back in that general janction. 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.800 Are you peanut butter or jelly in this scenario? I 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.800 want to be peanut buttered. You always make me be jelly. Well, 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:45.680 I think we should level set here at the beginning, 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.400 and let's talk about if you like peanut butter, which 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.440 is your favorite? And then what you like, how do 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:55.320 you utilize it? Okay, my name is Josh C. And 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:00.360 I love peanut butter. Okay, almost only smooth. I will 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.440 eat chunky if the if civilization has collapsed and that's 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:09.560 all I can find, I eat it anyway, shape or form. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.600 Sometimes just peanut butter on a spoon. Sometimes peanut butter 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.560 and a spoon with a little divit made with my 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.560 tongue filled with local honey. Um. If you want to 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.920 get tubby really fast. Let me introduce you to the 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.360 wonder that is a spoonful of peanut butter scooped in 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.200 some cool whip. Um. But really, any kind of peanut 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.480 butter anytime, I will eat it. And I've noticed that 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.039 once I reached my forties, peanut butter sticks around me 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.440 a lot more than it used to. So I'm having 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:41.440 a real struggle with it. Thank you for listening. Uh. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.319 And do you want to buzz market your favorite brand? Um? 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.920 We use this JIF natural that's like um uh, it's 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:52.080 liking a brown container and I like it so much. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:56.000 I've never I've purposely never looked at the label because 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.520 I don't want to know how natural it is. Um. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.200 But my all time favorite is Reese's peanut butter. Like 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.840 have you had it you mean in the jar? Yes? Yes, 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.440 Oh it's so good. I think I've had it once. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.520 But I was raised on Jeff, Now go well, I 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.800 was raised on whatever the gigantic gallon tub is that 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.440 you used to get indies. Yeah, I don't remember. I 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.120 don't think it was any of those name brands. Um. Now, 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.440 I mean I love peanut butter. It's one of my 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.200 favorite things in the world. Uh, and I will go 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.920 crunchy or smooth, no matter. I love them both. I 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.640 also like it with honey. Um. I like it. And 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.000 I don't do this much obviously because it's just I'm 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.320 not nineteen years old, but a peanut butter and mayonnaise 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.160 sandwich is one of the best things in the world. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.640 You know, I've never had that, is it? Is it good? Really? 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:55.239 Do you have any QUEPI? Yes, peanut butter and cupe sammy, Okay, 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.840 so half and half or more peanut butter than mayo 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.959 or what it's kind of your am. I definitely don't 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.399 go light on the mayo because you've gotta have that tang. Uh. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.680 Peanut butter and marshmallow fluff I used to eat when 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.800 I was a kid stuff fluff or nutter and um. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:15.080 Now I don't eat the sugary hydrogenated types. Um. I 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.919 either have one of the sort of artisan natural kinds 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.600 you have to mix up or just did cab Farmers 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.560 Market grinds the peanuts right in front of your face 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.760 into a tub and and it to you right in 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.160 front of your face, and it says beat it. You 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.880 can't have any of this, so that's just peanuts obviously. Yeah, 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.080 maybe a little bit of salt. Do they had any salders? 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.760 They're really just peanuts. It's just peanuts. I wonder if 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.720 they salt the peanuts when they roast them thing, because 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.600 I've always seen like peanuts with just a little bit 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.920 of salt, like you can't have peanut butter any other way. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.839 But maybe maybe they figured out they cracked the code. Well, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:51.720 I mean they may be salted and roasted. I have 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.920 no idea about the peanut, but it's good. It's all good. 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.440 But I have to mix, you know. I gotta put 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.040 a little bit of honey in there, maybe a little 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:00.920 bit of a gabba to give it a little bit 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.400 of a sweet. Oh that's a good idea. Yeah, I 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.520 was gonna ask you. I've not had any artisan stuff 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.280 and I did a little research and found a couple 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.760 I want to try um, and I didn't know, like 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.360 is it is it just straight up adult kind of 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.600 stuff where you're like, oh, that's really good, but you're 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:20.720 wishing that you had like the Nasty Big three brand instead. Well, 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.560 I mean, if you don't add any sweet nerve, it's 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.920 it's not nearly as good as you know, but I 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.640 think the naturals are all kind of the same as 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.040 far as sweetness level. Yeah, the best I could discern 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.600 is that if you're paying for artisan craft peanut butter, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:41.000 and buddy you're paying, you're like supposedly to have, you know, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.919 depending on the kind of peanuts that are chosen, the 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.840 variety of peanuts, um, the way that it's roasted, almost 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.599 like a coffee or a wine or something like that, 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.200 there's like a sophisticated palette or tear war that you 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.720 really have to pay attention to. That to me is 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.520 kind of like the opposite of what peanut butter is 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.960 supposed to be. It's supposed to just be like this dumb, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.839 messy thing where you know, your hair is totally normal, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.680 and you start eating the peanut butter and you suddenly 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.799 have like a cowlick and you're wearing a striped shirt 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.120 that shows your gut kind of thing. You know, like 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.520 you just regress an age. But I also get wanting 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.160 to enjoy peanut butter in a healthy way, because it 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.040 is surprisingly from from what I saw, it is healthier 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:23.440 than you would suspect if done right. Yes, not not 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:28.080 a big glob of Peter pan with cuping cuping mayonnaise 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:32.200 and potato chips smashed in between white bread. Yes, yeah, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.040 I'm I'm hungry now I am too. I already had 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.640 some peanut butter this morning, so I'm good to go. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.920 But this thing, this is like the Yawning episode where 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.240 I kept yawning doing research. This is I just wanted 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.920 peanut butter the whole time. Well, peanut butter for me, 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.800 and that has now become my uh in my since January, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.240 and I'm trying to lose some weight, so that's become 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.640 my sweet treat at the end of the night instead 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.200 of going and getting ice cream, Just like a spoonful 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.880 of peanut butter and honey, and that'll satiate that desire. 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.680 I haven't seen you in a while. How's it going. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:06.960 That's good. I mean I'm down twenty since January, but 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.240 really leveled off the past month. Congratulations, dude, that is 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.400 really impressive. Just forty more to go, man, No, that's 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.320 really great, man, Just just yeah, yeah, it does plateau, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.960 but it picks up again. Don't want plateaus because of 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.719 quarantine alcoholism. Oh well, I was going to ask, because 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:31.120 I'm finding that that quarantining has made things like we 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.720 you know, we have food and everything, but we're we're 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.800 eating it less for some reason rather than the opposite, 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.440 which both you, me and I were really concerned was 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.920 going to be the way it went. Um, are you 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.240 finding it easier to keep up with food or harder? 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.720 Easier because I'm cooking a lot um cheese and buzz 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.880 marketing again. But you know, I'm just having one of 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.960 those Mike's Mighty Goods for lunch which is very low 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.839 in calories. Yeah, it's really good to uh, and you know, 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:01.000 I'm just tracking the calories and it's it's alcohol that's 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.080 the problem. Right now, I got you. Yeah, I've been 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.120 doing one or two nights a week tops, um, and 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:07.960 then a couple of nights. I've been pretty good now 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.360 that I think about it. It's good. Yeah, because this 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.800 has been fairly stressful, but I haven't been stressed eating 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:18.920 too much. So okay, anyway, peanut butter here to me Chuck. 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.840 Early on, we happened upon the fact of the podcast. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.600 If you ask me, this is very jarring, if you'll 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:30.120 forgive the pun, that peanut butter outside of the United States, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.400 in a lot of different countries is looked upon as 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.160 very weird and gross in much the same way that 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:41.400 we Americans tend to think of like vegemite. People like 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:46.960 the British, Chinese other countries do not think peanut butter 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.800 is particularly good. They think it's a little nasty. Um, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.360 And that just blew me away to read that. Yeah, 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.240 I'd want to talk to some people before I let 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.760 some internet website tell me that people think peanut butter 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:04.080 screw us, some some website push your brain around. Yeah, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:05.960 I'd like to talk to some folks about that. But 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.120 at the very least, even if they don't think it's gross, 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:12.720 it it is a an all American thing, Like even 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.480 countries that do enjoy it. I've read that Australia actually 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:20.240 likes it a lot. Um. It's an American concoction so 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.800 much so that like it might be the most American 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.960 concoction there is, to tell you the truth. Yeah, I 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:27.680 mean you make a good point here. You put this 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.520 stuff together that mac and cheese came from Europe, hot 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:34.439 dogs came from Europe. Uh, sort of Hamburgers, even though 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.280 I would argue that the hamburgers we know it is 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:42.199 is pretty American, but peanut butter just us as far 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.439 as modern times go, Yeah, I think that the Inca 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.720 in the fifteenth century used to grind peanuts into a 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:53.720 paste and then that was it until the nineteenth century 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.240 when one of our buddies, who's gonna make a cameo 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.600 later um, got his hands on the idea. But yeah, 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.240 it was an American invention, except it was actually Canadian, 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.640 as we'll see. But for for the most part, people 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.839 think of it as all American. Um. And to talk 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.320 about peanut butter, Chuck, we kind of have to talk 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.840 about peanuts. There's really no way around it. Believe me, 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.640 I don't want to, but we have to. I think 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:22.000 you mean Goober's. Have you ever heard somebody outside of 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.080 TV call them that? Not really, but I knew it 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.000 was a thing, but I don't. It's not in the 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.160 just daily nomenclature of my crowd, but it is. It's 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.400 supposedly like a Southern and I guess an antiquated Southern 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.199 word for peanut, a goober or goober. P Yeah, I've 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.040 heard goober and that old song about the raisinets goober, Well, goober's. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.599 It's also a candy, right, Yeah, And there's smuckers goobers, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:50.719 which is peanut, butter and jelly mixed together in a jar. M. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.959 It's actually good, is it? Yeah? Even as a kid, 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.600 I was like, this is gonna be gross, and then 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.640 I tried. I was like, not bad, not bad. Smuckers. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.600 See pretty discerning with my jams and jellies. So that's 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.160 for another day. Though you would not like this, I 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.280 probably would. You would like suckers, And if you're at 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:12.480 all discerning, you would not like it. Alright. So peanuts 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.160 is a it's a legume. It's also called a ground 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.000 nut or an earth nut, and just like a little 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.719 or a pea, it is a little lagum and not 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.520 a nut. No, I'm a big fan of peanuts though 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.680 I like to eat them pretty much anyway. You can 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.440 slice it from boiled too, straight up, raw out of 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:35.719 the shell um like honey, roasted, salted and roasted, and 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.160 certainly in peanut butter. So Momo and I go and 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.240 visit squirrels whenever we can when we go on walks, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.920 and we always take peanuts, and I read you're supposed 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.600 to take roasted unsalted peanuts, so we get like big 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.520 bags of those, and if there's no squirrels out, I 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.880 get to eat all peanuts. Oh yeah, yeah, mo will 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.000 give me a look like does are not for you? 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.079 But they usually end up in my tummy. Anyway, have 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:00.720 you ever seen a squirrel will stick one of those 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:05.360 in his mouth sideways are cute? Yeah, we will like 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.120 all shell them and then throw like the actual peanut 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.480 in the squirrel. Somehow we'll know that there's supposed to 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.120 be another one coming because they'll very they'll frequently put 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.720 one in his cheek and then like be like, okay, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.800 toss me the other one. Then I'll take that run 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.679 off and like eat it with his two little hands. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.760 It's really adorable, right, Or they might stick around to 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.000 see if it's one of the rare three bangers, which 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.600 is just that's a good squirrel day right there. All right, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.640 So these things are lagoons, and we think they originated 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:38.120 in South America. You mentioned Peru, even though we cannot 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.360 prove that through the fossil record, but they have found 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:46.439 evidence in the archaeological um culture from Peru from about 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.560 seventy years ago. And it was sort of one of 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.120 these things where they found um the fact that they 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.240 were farming this stuff and then when you see it 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.240 in like artwork and pottery and stuff like that. Then 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.720 you know it's sort of a thing. Yeah, right, the 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.200 peanut has arrived. When it shows up on pottery, you 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.200 know they've also found him, I guess, entombed with mummies 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.199 from the Inca and the Aztecs. Um which makes sense 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:15.400 because when the uh conquistadors arrived, the Spanish and the 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.640 Portuguese to South America and Central America, they found peanuts 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.360 being grown as far north as Mexico, but I think 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.199 the first place they encountered them was actually in the 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.400 Caribbean um and they took him back with with them. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.679 They took him to Spain, and Spain passed him along 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.120 to the rest of Europe and the Philippines and China. 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.160 Um the Portuguese took it back to again to Europe, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.080 but also to India and Africa, and peanuts started to 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.040 be farmed all over the world, like the world loves peanuts, 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.880 is just not necessarily peanut butter that they're crazy about. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.160 And then, in a really kind of weird, surprising twist, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:55.439 the peanuts were re exported back to the America's from 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.280 Africa as part of the West African slave trade. And 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:03.000 actually that goober that Southern word goober they think comes 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.839 from a Congolese word or congo with a K word 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:13.920 in Guba. Yeah, pretty surprising, sure, goober and Guba close enough. Yeah, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.120 But to think like the peanut, you think of the 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.240 peanut is as just American as it comes, and then 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.120 even as Georgia as it comes. But the idea that 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.360 it wouldn't have been here had it not been for 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.040 the importation of African slaves that reintroduced the peanut to 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.800 the America's that's a pretty circuitous and weird route for 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.800 it to take. Yeah, and Africa still grows about of 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.720 the peanuts in the world. Weird just below that at 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.920 about here in the States. And it took all the 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.599 way to eighteen forty two that we started growing them 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.200 commercially in the US. UH in Virginia's where it first 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.240 started for oil and food and UH to substitute out 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.120 for cocoa. And it wasn't it just wasn't like a 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.480 It was kind of like for people that didn't have 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.280 the means to buy something better or maybe feed it 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.760 to your animals or something like that. Yeah, it was 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.520 good for livestock and the poverty stricken basically was who 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.160 were expected to eat peanuts at the time. That's right. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.120 It's just like like lobster. Have you ever read Considered 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:19.400 the Lobster? That? Um? Wow, man, I want to say 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.240 David Lee Roth so bad, but I know it's not 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:25.800 his name at all. Who wrote Consider the Lobster? I've 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.160 never heard of that. But who who was end of 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:34.880 tour about that movie of David Foster Wallace? Sure? Um, 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.720 he wrote this really great magazine article once called Consider 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.160 the Consider the Lobster. It's good, but in it he 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.160 explains that it used to be considered a food fit 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.720 only for the poor. Basically, I guess peanuts were considered 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.640 the same. That's right. Uh, you know they were uh 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:57.160 c spiders, yeah, or the cockroaches of the sea. It 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.280 is kind of gross when you think of it like that. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.680 In apparent only, there was a law that said that, um, 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.440 you could only feed so much lobster to patients and 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:11.160 mental asylums at the time, or else it became abusive. Wow. Yeah, 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:12.840 they didn't know what did they try him on a 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.840 hot dog bun with mayonnaise. So one of the reasons 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.680 why the peanut was viewed as such a lowly crop 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.400 was that it was again it was used for oil 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.640 and um, which I mean this wasn't necessarily just cooking oil. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.120 They would use it to lubricate machinery, that kind of stuff. 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.440 So the idea of eating the same thing that your 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.920 machinery lube came from, it was probably not super appetizing. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.800 But it was also like you would get just basically 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.000 trash when you got a bag of peanuts, because there 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:44.320 was no easy way to harvest it, stem them, clean them, 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:49.560 and prepare them for basically general consumption. Which so again 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.440 you could just dump it into a trough and feeded 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.200 to your livestock, or you could spend a lot of 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.200 time trying to separate it, or you could just be like, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.360 I'm not I'm not messing with this. And for a 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.520 long time they didn't mess with it. Actually, Yeah, when 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.640 the Civil War happened, the Union soldiers got their hands 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.600 on some of our southern peanuts and they said these 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.800 are delicious, and both armies ate a lot of peanuts. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.000 And then when the circus rolled around with P. T. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:16.520 Barnum Hugh Jackman, they started selling peanuts there hot roasted peanuts, 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.440 and especially in the cheap seats, they become known as 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.640 the pet peanut gallery, and that's where that phrase came 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.240 came from, which is kind of interesting. Yeah, because apparently 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.280 if they didn't like what they saw, they would toss 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.280 their peanuts there that they were eating at the stage. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.680 So that's where peanut gallery came from. Yeah, and then 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.600 you've got them on the street corners, you've got them 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.000 at baseball games. Peanuts are starting to get a little 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.520 traction as a snack, but they were still not. Uh, 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.400 it was still hard to get like a really good 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.480 quality peanuts because, like you said, the way they were 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.280 being harvested at the time by hands, it was just 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:56.800 tough to do. And then so too African Americans. UM 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.800 around the turn of the last century, UM stepped up 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.240 and basically said, we're going to make the peanut what 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:07.200 it is today. So one obviously was George Washington Carver, 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.720 who's known as basically the father of the peanut UM, 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.080 who actually, contrary to popular belief, did not invent peanut butter, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.080 but he did come up with more than three different 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.840 ways to use the peanut. And I never realized like 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.439 why he was so bonkers for peanuts, but one of 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.480 the reasons he was trying to make the peanut established 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.320 it as a prominent crop was because the South had 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.639 depleted its soil so badly from growing cotton for so long. 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.879 And then you know, at the worst of this um 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:40.119 there was a bowl weevil outbreak that just ruined the 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.520 rest of the cotton crops. So the South really needed 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.720 something to replace cotton. And George Washington Carver helped introduce 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.360 and popularized peanuts and say, not only can you eat 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.040 these things, look at all this other stuff you can 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.760 make out of them. That's right. Uh. And there was 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.800 another guy around the same time named Ben Hicks, Mr. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.480 Benjamin Hicks. He was from Virginia and which we already 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.680 talked about being a big peanut state. And he invented 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.639 a gas powered machine for cleaning and stemming these things. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.480 He got it patented, Uh, like a lot of well 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.440 it still goes on, I guess with with a little 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:17.760 guy and their patents. Um big farm came around and 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.720 a farm equipment company challenged him. He actually had to 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.160 go to court, but one the case in nineteen o one, 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.240 and this picker was a big, big deal in modernizing 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.720 peanut farming, and all of a sudden you could get 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.840 really good peanuts a lot quicker doesn't take as many 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:39.040 hands or are man hours or person hours, and the 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.679 demand for peanuts, for oil for eating them, and peanut 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.320 butter and candy all just kind of went through the 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.600 roof at that point. Yeah. Yeah, because you could you 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.359 could get your hands on good peanuts. They were widely 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.400 available and they were just delicious. Everyone saw finally how 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.840 great peanuts are, but not peanut butter yet. And I proposed, Charles, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.639 did we take a break and then come back really 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:08.119 dig into the peanut butter. Let's do it, okay, in 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:34.200 things and choosh and shock, so okay. So, like I said, 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.680 the INCA probably had us beat as far as the 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:43.040 invention of peanut butter went um. But it was actually 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.760 a Canadian who they think was probably the actual inventor 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.760 of modern peanut butter, a guy who I had never 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:56.440 heard of before. His name was Marcellus Gilmore Edson Wallace. 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.560 I'm kidding, by the last part. It was just that 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:03.159 was going Marcellus Gilbore Edson. You just can't say the 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.080 name Marcellis and not followed up with Wallace somewhere. You know. 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.639 It's it really has become like peanut butter and jelly. 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:15.280 So he patented a paste made of peanuts in four, 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:19.480 which was described by him and his patent as uh 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.639 at room temperature, having a consistency like that of butter, lard, 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:27.240 or ointment. It sounds gross, but when you think about 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.879 peanut butter, that's kind of about right. He added sugar 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.280 to stabilize it a little bit, and this was kind 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.280 of like the first modern peanut butter that we think of. 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:39.600 His peanut butter. It's sold for about six cents a pound, 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.200 which is pretty good price. Yeah, and if you from 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.119 what I can tell just reading about it, if you 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.600 tried it today, you'd be like, yeah, it's peanut butter, 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.160 Whereas if you tried some of the other stuff, you'd 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:54.520 be like, oh, yeah, that's the artisan peanut butter. It's punished, yeah, 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.880 And the other stuff was first developed. So it's interesting 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:02.159 to me that there's in the first try, right out 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:04.560 of the gate, the guy who invents peanut butter basically 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.400 invents the modern version of it, and then it takes 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:10.680 a big step backwards or sideways, I guess you can say, 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:14.119 depending on your viewpoint. When our buddy doctor John Harvey 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:18.160 Kellogg comes along, and if you'll remember from the live 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:23.520 show we did on the Kellogg Brothers. He invented nut butters, 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.280 and in particular peanut butter is considered one of the 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:29.600 main inventors of peanut butter. Well, yeah it was. It 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.199 was right up his alley, because, um, I think that 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.760 might be my favorite live show we've done. Actually, I 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.639 think so PR was my favorite. PR. Howney, you're going 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:40.920 to say that you did. Yeah, that was a good 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:43.399 one you did. I think those are my top two? 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:48.960 What about Pinto's Man, what about Cooper? Those might be 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:52.960 the first four? Name what else have we done? Malls bars? 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:58.280 We did the secret one that is still supposedly on 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.760 tour but on High eight US right now, Um, I 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.920 think that's it. I think that's all. Well, I'm gonna 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:08.080 go with John Harvey Kellogg because he uh as if 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:10.080 you listen to that when he was very big on 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:14.440 chewing food until it was the consistency of peanut butter basically, 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:17.800 and so peanut butter comes along and he's like, well, 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.159 this is perfect because you don't have to chew it 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:22.760 like that, it's already like that. It'll just glad right 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:26.480 through your system and come out as delicious. Peanut butter poop. Yeah, 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:28.880 and it won't poison your entire body and you won't 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:30.840