WEBVTT - Selects: How Peanut Butter Works 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:05.120 Hi, everybody. It's Chuck And in COVID time it's May fourteenth, 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.280 twenty twenty, and on this Saturday Select, we're going to 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.840 bring you an episode called How Peanut Butter Works. And boy, 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:13.760 oh boy, I remember loving this one. I think I 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:15.200 was eating a lot of peanut butter at the time 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.120 during COVID because we had a good store of it already, 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:22.320 and I love peanut butter, and I think we talk 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:24.560 a lot about how much we both like peanut butter. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.560 In this episode, it's bound to make you hungry. And 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:28.360 the good news is now you can just go right 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.560 to your store and pick it up and smile a 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.640 real smile at people, just not hidden behind a mask. 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:34.640 So let's celebrate that. Go out and get some peanut 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:41.440 butter and smile. Welcome to Stuff you should Know, a 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:48.520 production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.400 Hey, and welcome to peanut Butter Jelly Time. I'm Josh. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.560 There's Chuck. We haven't seen Jerry in a while. If 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.040 you have seen Jerry, please tell her to call home. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:00.560 And this is you should know. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:05.120 Yeah, Jerry, she sent out in a smoke signal that 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.119 said send me, so she did. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.319 She did, and we send some on donkey back in 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:13.360 that general direction. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.200 Are you peanut butter or jelly in this scenario? 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.360 I want to be peanut buttered. You always make me 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:20.959 be jelly. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.160 Well, I think we should level set here at the beginning, okay, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.640 and talk about if you like peanut butter, which is 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.760 your favorite, and then what you like how do you 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:30.479 utilize it? 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:36.080 Okay? My name is Josh C. And I love peanut butter. Okay, 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:41.600 almost only smooth. I will eat chunky the if civilization 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.600 is collapsed and that's all I can find. Okay, I 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.560 eat it any way, shape or form. Sometimes just peanut 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.279 butter on a spoon. Sometimes peanut butter on a spoon 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.400 with a little divot made with my tongue filled with 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.880 local honey. If you want to get tubby really fast, 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.040 let me introduce you to the wonder that is a 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:04.360 spoonful of peanut butter scooped in some cool whip. Okay, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.480 but really, any kind of peanut butter anytime, I will 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.280 eat it. And I've noticed that once I reached my forties, 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.280 peanut butter sticks around me a lot more than it 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.840 used to, so I'm having a real struggle with it. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:18.440 Thank you for listening. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.639 And do you want to buzzmarkt your favorite brand? 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:27.320 We used this Jeff Natural that's like it's like in 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.440 a brown container, and I like it so much. I've 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.280 never I purposely never looked at the label because I 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.960 don't want to know how natural it is. But my 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.320 all time favorite is Reese's peanut butter, like the like 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:41.600 Have you had it. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:43.079 You mean in the jar? 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:43.600 Yes? 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.560 Yes, Oh it's so good. I think I've had it once. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.720 But I was raised on Jeff Now go well, I. 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.920 Was raised on whatever the gigantic gallon tub is that 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.840 you used to it and Ladies Yeah, I don't remember. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.359 I don't think it was any of those names. Now, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.600 I mean, I love peanut butter. It's one of my 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:08.880 favorite things in the world. And I will go crunchy 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.400 or smooth no matter. I love them both. I also 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.920 like it with honey. Yeah, I like it. And I 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.240 don't do this much obviously because it's just I'm not 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.919 nineteen years old, but a peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:24.320 is one of the best things in the world. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.920 You know, I've never had that? Is it good? Really? Dude? 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.120 Do you have any cuby Yes? Do peanut butter and 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:33.160 cupe sammy. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.600 Okay, so half in half or more peanut butter than 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:36.400 mayo or what. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.160 It's kind of your your jam. I definitely don't go 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.440 light on the mayo because you've got to have that tang. Okay, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:44.840 peanut butter and marshmallow fluff I used to eat when 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.320 I was a kid. Yeah, that's good stuff fluff or nutter, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:53.240 And now I don't eat the sugary hydrogenated types. I 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.040 either have one of the sort of artisan natural kinds 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.400 you have to mix up or just that. The cap 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.480 Farmers Market grinds the peanuts right in front of your 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:03.880 face into a tub and hands it to. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.760 You, right in front of your face, and it says 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.160 beat it. You can't have any of this. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.520 So that's just peanuts obviously. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.400 Yeah, and maybe a little bit of salt. Do they 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.480 add any salt or is it really just peanuts? 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:15.440 It's just peanuts. 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.039 Wow. I wonder if they salt the peanuts when they 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.919 roast them thing, because I've always seen like peanuts with 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.960 just a little bit of salt, Like you can't have 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.680 peanut butter any other way. But maybe maybe they figured 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.159 out they'd cracked the code. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.760 Well, I mean, they may be salted and roasted. I 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.680 have no idea about the peanut, but it's good. It's 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.159 all good, but I have to mix, you know, I 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.560 got to put a little bit of honey in there, 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.520 or maybe a little bit of a gave to give 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:39.960 it a little bit of a sweet. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.840 Oh that's a good idea. Yeah, I was going to 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.719 ask you. I've not had any artists and stuff, and 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.520 I did a little research and found a couple I 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.880 want to try, and I didn't know, like, is it 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.600 just straight up adult kind of stuff where you're like, oh, 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.919 that's really good, but you're wishing that you had like 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.120 the Nasty Big three brand instead. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.440 Well, I mean, if you don't add any sweetener, and 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.080 it's not nearly as good as you know, but I 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.720 think the naturals are all kind of the same as 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:08.760 far as sweetness level. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.240 Yeah, the best I could discern is that if you're 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.400 paying for artisan craft peanut butter and buddy you're paying, 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.839 you're like supposedly they have, you know, depending on the 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.080 kind of peanuts that are chosen, the variety of peanuts, 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.720 the way that it's roasted, almost like a coffee or 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.479 a wine or something like that. There's like a sophisticated 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.000 palette or tear wir that you really have to pay 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.359 attention to. That to me is kind of like the 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.360 opposite of what peanut butter is supposed to be. It's 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.080 supposed to just be like this dumb, messy thing where 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.400 you know your hair is totally normal, and you start 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.120 eating the peanut butter and you suddenly have like a 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.800 cow lick and you're wearing a striped shirt that shows 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.600 your gut kind of thing. You know, like you just 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.400 regress an age. But I also get wanting to enjoy 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.480 peanut butter in a healthy way because it is surprisingly 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.719 from what I saw, it is healthier than you would 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:58.800 suspect if done right. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:05.560 Yes, not a big glob of peter pan with cup 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:10.320 mayonnaise and potato chips smashed in between white bread. Yes, yeah, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:11.279 I'm hungry. 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.800 Now I am too. I already had some peanut butter 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.880 this morning, so I'm good to go. But this thing, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.719 this is like the Yawning episode where I kept yawning 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.000 doing research. This is I just wanted peanut butter the 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:22.520 whole time. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.400 Well, peanut butter for me that has now become my 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.719 in my since January. You know, I'm trying to lose 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.640 some weight, so that's become my sweet treat at the 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.119 end of the night instead of going and getting ice cream. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:34.880 Oh good for you. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.800 Just like a spoonful of peanut butter and honey and 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.000 that'll satiate that desire. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.800 I haven't seen you in a while. How's it going. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:43.320 That's good. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.839 I mean, I'm down twenty since January? But what really 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:48.280 leveled off the past month? 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.520 Congratulations, dude, that is really impressive. 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.039 Just forty more to go, man, No, that's really great. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.080 Man, Just just yeah, yeah, it does plateau, but it 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:58.800 picks up again. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.320 Don't want plat plateaus because of quarantine alcoholism. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.400 Oh well, I was going to ask, because I'm finding 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:09.840 that that quarantining has made things like we you know, 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.360 we have food and everything, but we're we're eating it 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.840 less for some reason, rather than the opposite, which both you, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.960 me and I were really concerned was going to be 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.000 the way it went. Are you finding it easier to 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:23.400 keep up with food or harder? 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.520 Easier because I'm cooking a lot cheese and buzz marketing again. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.440 But you know, I'm just having one of those MIC's 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.600 mighty goods for lunch, which is very low on calories. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:33.680 Yeah, it's really good too. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.160 And you know, I'm just tracking the calories, and it's 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.160 it's alcohol that's the problem right now. 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.400 I gotcha. Yeah, I've been doing one or two nights 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.320 a week tops, and then a couple of night. I've 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.960 been pretty good now that I think about it. It's good. Yeah, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.320 because this has been fairly stressful, but I haven't been 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:56.239 stressed eating too much. So okay, anyway, peanut butter here 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.280 to me chuck early on we happen upon the fact 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.480 of the podcast. If you ask me, this is a 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.960 boy very jarring, if you'll forgive the pun. That peanut 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.840 butter outside of the United States, in a lot of 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:13.480 different countries is looked upon as very weird and gross 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.560 in much the same way that we Americans tend to 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:21.440 think of like vegemite. People like the British, the Chinese, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:26.480 other countries do not think peanut butter is particularly good. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.119 They think it's a little nasty. And that just blew 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:31.160 me away to read that. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.480 Yeah, I'd want to talk to some people before I'd 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.720 let some internet website tell me that people think peanut 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:38.360 butter is gross. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.040 Some website push your brain around. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:43.959 Yeah, I'd like to talk to some folks about that. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.720 But at the very least, even if they don't think 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:50.880 it's gross, it is an all American thing. Like even 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.640 countries that do enjoy it. I've read that Australia actually 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:58.640 likes it a lot. It's an American concoction so much 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.440 so that like it might be the most American concoction 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:02.840 there is, to tell you the truth. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.560 Yeah, I mean, you make a good point here. You 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.360 put this stuff together that mac and cheese came from Europe, 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.400 hot dogs came from Europe. Yep, sort of Hamburgers, even 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.000 though I would argue that the hamburgers, we know it 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:20.160 is pretty American, sure, but peanut butter just us as 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.200 far as modern times go. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.000 Yeah, I think that that Inca in the fifteenth century 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.240 used to grind peanuts into a paste and then that 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:32.800 was it until the nineteenth century when one of our 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.040 buddies who's going to make a cameo later got his 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.400 hands on the idea. But yeah, it was an American invention, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.559 except it was actually Canadian, as we'll see. But for 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.079 the most part, people think of it as all American, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.960 And to talk about peanut butter, Chuck. We kind of 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.400 have to talk about peanuts. There's really no way around it. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.920 Believe me. I don't want to, but we have to. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:56.800 I think you mean Goober's. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.080 Have you ever heard somebody outside of TV call them that? 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.960 Not really, but I knew it was a thing, but 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.400 I don't. It's not in the just daily nomenclature of 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:09.720 my crowd. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.040 But it is. It's supposedly like a Southern and I 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.160 guess an antiquated Southern word for peanut, a goober or 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:15.880 goober pe. 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.360 Yeah, I've heard goober and that old song about the 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.040 raisinets guber. Well, Goober's is also a candy, right, yeah. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.440 And there's smuckers goobers, which is peanut, butter and jelly 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:32.280 mixed together in a jar. It's actually good, is it. Yeah? 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:33.959 Even as a kid, I was like, this is gonna 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.600 be gross, and then I tried it. I was like, 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.400 not bad, not bad smuckers. 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.000 See, I'm pretty discerning with my gems and jellies. So 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.600 that's for another day. Though you would not like this, 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:44.840 I probably would. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.160 You would not like smuckers, and if you're at all discerning, 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:49.160 you would not like it. 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.199 All right, So peanuts is a it's a lagome and 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.720 it's also called a ground nut or an earth nut, 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.520 and just like a lintel or a pee, it is 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.640 a little lagoome nut. No, I'm a big fan of peanuts, though, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.719 I like to eat them pretty much anyway. You can 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.560 slice it from boiled to straight up raw out of 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:13.800 the shell, like them honey, roasted, salted, and roasted, and 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.080 certainly in peanut butter. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.680 So Momo and I go and visit squirrels whenever we 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.599 can when we go on walks, and we always take peanuts, 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.080 and I read you're supposed to take roasted unsalted peanuts, 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.520 so we get like big bags of those, and if 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.240 there's no squirrels out, I get to eat all peanuts. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.840 Oh yeah, yeah, mo will give me a look like 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.720 those are not for you, but they usually end up 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:36.760 in my tummy. Anyway. 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:38.920 You ever seen a squirrel stick one of those in 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:39.800 his mouth sideways? 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:44.160 Yep? I had darn cute. Yeah, we will like all 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.360 shell them and then throw like the actual peanut and 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.679 the squirrel. Somehow we'll know that there's supposed to be 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.960 another one coming, because they'll very frequently put one in 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.320 his cheek and then like be like, okay, toss me 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.280 the other one. Then I'll take that run off and 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:58.760 like eat it with his two little hands. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.920 It's really adorable, right, or they might stick around to 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.200 see if it's one of the rare three bangers. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:07.920 Right, which is just that's a good squirrel day right there. 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.920 All right, So these things are lagomes, and we think 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.760 they originated in South America. You mentioned Peru, even though 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.040 we cannot prove that through the fossil record, but they 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:24.280 have found evidence in the archaeological culture from Peru from 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.439 about seventy six hundred years ago, and it was sort 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.040 of one of these things where they found the fact 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:31.920 that they were farming this stuff, and then when you 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.760 see it in like artwork and pottery and stuff like that, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:36.560 then you know it's sort of a thing. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.600 Yeah, right, the peanut has arrived. When it shows up 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.680 on pottery, you know for real. They've also found them, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.800 i guess, entombed with mummies from the Inca and the Aztecs, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.360 which makes sense because when the conquistadors arrived the Spanish 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.920 and the Portuguese to South America and Central America, they 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.160 found peanuts being grown as far north as Mexico, but 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.080 I think the first place they encountered them was actually 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.560 in the Caribbean, and they took them back with them. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.839 They took them to Spain, and Spain passed them along 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.280 to the rest of Europe and the Philippines and China. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.600 The Portuguese took it back again to Europe, but also 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.680 to India and Africa, and peanuts started to be farmed 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.360 all over the world. Like the world loves peanuts, it's 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:26.000 just not necessarily peanut butter that they're crazy about. And then, 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.320 in a really kind of weird, surprising twist, the peanuts 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:34.920 were re exported back to the Americas from Africa as 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.960 part of the West African slave trade. And actually that 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.319 word gouber, that Southern word gouber, they think comes from 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.160 a Conga Leese word or Congo with a K word 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.360 in gouba. Yeah, pretty surprising. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.600 Sure, goober and gouba close enough. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.160 Yeah, But to think like the peanut, you think of 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.360 the peanut as just American as it comes, and then 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.280 even as Georgia as it comes. But the idea that 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.480 it wouldn't have been here had it not been for 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.240 the importation of African slaves, that reintroduced the peanut to 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.920 the Americas. That's a pretty circuitous and weird route for 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:10.520 it to take. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.960 Yeah, and Africa still grows about twenty five percent of 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.880 the peanuts in the world. Weird just below that at 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.720 about twenty one percent here in the States. And it 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.320 took all the way to eighteen forty two that we 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.960 started growing them commercially in the US in Virginia's where 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.200 it first started for oil and food and to substitute 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.120 out for cocoa. And it wasn't it just wasn't like 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.520 a It was kind of like for people that didn't 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.280 have the means to buy something better or maybe feed 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.240 it to your animals or something like that. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.680 Yeah, it was good for livestock and the poverty stricken 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.120 basically was who were expected to eat peanuts at the time. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:49.320 That's right. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:55.760 It just like Lobster. Have you ever read Considered the Lobster? That? Wow, man, 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:58.800 I want to say David Lee Roth so bad, but 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.160 I know that's not his name at all. Who wrote 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:03.200 Consider the Lobster? 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.720 I've never heard of that, But I who was the lobster? 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.520 Who was end of tour about that movie? Oh? David 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.960 Foster Wallace, Oh, sure, sure, yeah. He wrote this really 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.280 great magazine article once called Considered the Consider the lobster 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.880 it's good. But in it he explains that it used 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.400 to be considered a food fit only for the poor. Basically, 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.520 I guess peanuts were considered the same. 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.480 That's right. Uh you know there were. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.000 Sea spiders, yeah, or the cockroaches of the sea. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:34.800 Disgusting. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.040 It is kind of gross when you think of it 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.720 like that. And apparently there was a law that said 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:44.440 that you could only feed so much lobster to patients 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.640 and mental asylums at the time, or else it became abusive. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.360 Oh wow, yeah, they didn't know what did they try 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.280 him on a hot dog bun with mayonnaise. 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.360 So one of the reasons why the peanut was viewed 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.160 as such a lowly crop was that it was again 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.640 it was used for oil, which I mean, this wasn't 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.440 necessarily just cooking oil. They would use it to lubricate machinery, 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.680 that kind of stuff. So the idea of eating the 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:11.600 same thing that your machinery lube came from was probably 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.080 not super appetizing, but it was also like you would 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.720 get just basically trash when you got a bag of peanuts. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:21.640 Because there was no easy way to harvest it, stem them, 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:27.720 clean them, and prepare them for basically general consumption. So again, 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.480 you could just dump it into a trough and feed 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.240 it to your livestock, where you could spend a lot 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.000 of time trying to separate it, or you could just 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.480 be like, I'm not messing with this. And for a 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.280 long time they didn't mess with it. Actually. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.240 Yeah, when the Civil War happened, the Union soldiers got 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.360 their hands on some of our southern peanuts and they 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.320 said these are delicious, and both armies ate a lot 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:50.680 of peanuts. And then when the circus rolled around with P. T. Barnum, 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.600 Hugh Jackman, they started selling peanuts there, hot roasted peanuts, 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.560 and especially in the cheap seats, they become known as 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.240 the peanut gallery. And that's where that phrase came from, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:02.600 which is kind of interesting. 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.760 Yeah, because apparently if they didn't like what they saw, 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.840 they would toss their peanuts that they were eating at 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.840 the stage. So that's where peanut gallery came from. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.240 Yeah, and then you've got them on the street corners, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.600 you've got them at baseball games. Peanuts are starting to 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.240 get a little traction as a snack. But they were 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.200 still not It was still hard to get like really 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.439 good quality peanuts because, like you said, the way they 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.320 were being harvested at the time by hand, it was 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:28.959 just tough to do. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:36.200 And then so two African Americans around the turn of 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.959 the last century stepped up and basically said, we're going 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.400 to make the peanut what it is today. So one 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.080 obviously was George Washington Carver, who's known as basically the 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.960 father of the peanut, who actually, contrary to popular belief, 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.560 did not invent peanut butter, but he did come up 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.600 with more than three hundred different ways to use the peanut. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.200 And I never realized like why he was so bonkers 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.160 for peanuts, But one of the reasons he was trying 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.800 to make the peanut establish it as a prominent crop 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.600 was because the South had depleted its soil so badly 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.640 from growing cotton for so long, and then at the 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.920 worst of this there was a bull weavil outbreak that 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.560 just ruined the rest of the cotton crop. So the 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.720 South really needed something to replace cotton, and George Washington 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.960 Carver helped introduce and popularize peanuts and say, not only 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:29.560 can you eat these things, look at all this other 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:30.840 stuff you can make out. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.879 Of them, that's right. And there was another guy around 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.240 the same time named Ben Hicks, Mister Benjamin Hicks. He 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.320 was from Virginia and which we already talked about being 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.639 a big peanut state, and he invented a gas powered 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.919 machine for cleaning and stemming these things. He got it 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.439 patented like a lot of well it still goes on, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.879 I guess, with the little guy and their patents. Big 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:59.080 farm came around and a farm equipment company challenged him. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.159 He actually had to go to court, but won the 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.960 case in nineteen oh one. And this picker was a big, 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.920 big deal in modernizing peanut farming, and all of a sudden, 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.399 you could get really good peanuts a lot quicker doesn't 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:16.120 take as many hands or man hours or person hours, 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.960 and the demand for peanuts, for oil for eating them, 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.199 and peanut butter and candy all just kind of went 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:23.200 through the roof at that point. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.000 Yeah. Yeah, because you could you could get your hands 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.880 on good peanuts. They were widely available and they were 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.760 just delicious. Everyone saw finally how great peanuts are, but 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.399 not peanut butter yet. And I proposed, Charles that we 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.680 take a break and then come back, really dig into 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:40.400 the peanut butter. 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:45.919 Let's do it, okay, and. 0:19:47.640 --> 0:20:03.480 Ut Scott shot. 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:14.320 Shot Okay. So, like I said, the INCA probably had 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.360 us beat as far as the invention of peanut butter went. 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:24.719 But it was actually a Canadian who they think was 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:29.200