2007-05-17 13:55:15 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
OMG!
Where did you hear that silly rumour?
Well, I don't think so. Here's some answers aboujt the origin of PEANUT BUTTER:
There are many claims about the origin of peanut butter. Africans ground peanuts into stews as early as the 15th century.
The Chinese have crushed peanuts into creamy sauces for centuries. Civil War soldiers dined on 'peanut porridge.' These uses, however, bore little resemblance to peanut butter as it is known today.
In 1890, an unknown St. Louis physician supposedly encouraged the owner of a food products company, George A. Bayle Jr., to process and package ground peanut paste as a nutritious protein substitute for people with poor teeth who couldn't chew meat.
The physician apparently had experimented by grinding peanuts in his hand-cranked meat grinder. Bayle mechanized the process and began selling peanut butter out of barrels for about 6¢ per pound.
One of the first companies to adopt this new process was Swift & Company for its E.K. Pond peanut butter ~ renamed Peter Pan in 1928. In 1932, Rosefield had a dispute with Peter Pan and began producing peanut butter under the Skippy label the following year. Rosefield created the first crunchy style peanut butter two years later by adding chopped peanuts into creamy peanut butter at the end of the manufacturing process.
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Peanut butter (also known as peanut paste) is a food paste made primarily from ground roasted peanuts, with or without added oil.
It is popular primarily in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and The Netherlands.
It also has above-average popularity in the Philippines, parts of the Middle East, South Korea and other areas where Americans have maintained a strong presence in recent decades[citation needed]. It is also manufactured in China, India, and other emerging markets. In Israel, peanut butter has been used as the coating of Israel's most popular snack, Bamba crisps. [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter
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I KNOW, toooo much information...TMI.
Well, after much research, I see no mention of potatoes connected with peanut butter.
Sorry, dear!
Good Luck and Good Eating!
2007-05-17 14:05:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, peanut butter is made from peanuts.
Potato chips are made from potatoes.
2007-05-17 20:56:23 · answer #2 · answered by daryavaush 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO it is made from Peanuts and Peanut Oil
2007-05-17 14:01:15 · answer #3 · answered by Helpfulhannah 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is it called potato butter? Do you see potatoes listed in the ingredients?
2007-05-17 14:11:57 · answer #4 · answered by Ryan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ground peanuts.....like you get in a pkg or roasted.
They grow on the roots of the plant in a shell.The salt is added when cooked.
Usually salt and a little sugar or honey is added for taste.
In production products they add stabilizers ,probably oil
and maybe preservatives.Depending on who is making it.
2007-05-17 14:13:18 · answer #5 · answered by LIFE OBSERVER 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
um... maybe rilly rilly BAD peanut butter is ..
If you're not joking, peanut butter is just ground peanuts and a pinch of salt. You can make your own at home and it tastes much better.
2007-05-17 14:00:59 · answer #6 · answered by Chuck S 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nooooooooooooooooooo.....it made from peanuts...hence the name peanut butter!!!
2007-05-17 14:00:11 · answer #7 · answered by rusi 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No its made from peanuts and sugar.
2007-05-17 14:02:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no it is made from peanuts
2007-05-17 15:40:52 · answer #9 · answered by thomasl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO. Peanuts.
2007-05-17 14:00:16 · answer #10 · answered by queenofsiberia 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋