Peanuts and Forgotten History
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- Peanuts are a billion dollar a year industry in the United States. From a South American herb to a product that 90% of Americans eat on a regular basis, the story of how peanuts have pleased palates throughout history deserves to be remembered.
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I'll be 59 next month and I can remember vending machine peanuts when I was a really little girl. You know because when little kids see a vending machine we want what's in them lol
I found this particular edition very interesting since I spent my early years working in my father's peanut fields. In the Summer my older sister, brother, and I would hoe the weeds out of the fields. This was a hot relentless job, and as soon as you were through with one field you started another. This was an endless cycle that kept us busy from dawn to late in the evening every day. When fall came my father would dig the peanuts by pulling a plow behind the tractor that turned the plants up, where the peanuts were on top. This was a dangerous time, because a murder of crows could eat your entire years profit in short order. This was when we sat out in the field with a .22 caliber rifle, and a case of bullets, and kept the crows from eating the exposed crop. This exercise was known as herding crows, and I don't know who came up with that name.
After the peanuts had dried sufficiently it was time to thrash them. This was a large machine pulled behind the tractor that swept up the dried peanut plants, and separated the peanut from the trash. The trash was left in the field, and the peanuts came down a chute where two burlap sacks were hanging. When one sack got full you flipped the valve over to fill the other sack, and tie the top of the full sack, and kick it off the thrasher. This was a very dusty job, and dirt got packed in your nose, and ears even with a mask. Once the thrashing was done, and the peanuts were in large burlap sacks laying in the fields it was time to stack the sacks. You would drag three sacks together, and lean them together where air could circulate around the sacks so they wouldn't mold until they could dry more. Every several days you rotate the sacks that are stacked so they don't mold where they sit. Once the sacks are ready they are hauled out of the field, and usually to the peanut mill to sell. (I have hauled a lot of hay, as well as peanuts in my time, and the peanuts are by far heavier, and harder to handle than hay bales.) However my father was an inventive sort, and stripped an old combine of parts, and made a peanut shaker. Instead we hauled the peanuts to the house, and stacked them so we could open each sack, and pour it on the shaker. This shaker would separate the peanut from the dirt, and other trash.(clean peanuts brought more when sold). The peanuts were then resacked, and hauled to the peanut mill to sell. As a child the highlight of this was the homemade peanut brittle, and the oven roasted peanuts My mother made. It's hard to eat peanuts now, and not think of all the work that we used to do to raise, harvest, and sell our crop.
Wow. Thank you so much for sharing!
James Ferris what memories you have of your youth. Mine are nothing compared to yours. You lived history that THG recalls. Yours is history that deserves to be remembered. Thank you for sharing. And thank you, too, History Guy!!
Love these kinds of stories. Thanks.
Remember my grandad calling us to say it was time to do these tasks. It was hard hard work but we camped out and mawmaw cooked the best stuff for us! It almost felt like a family reunion when all 24 grandkids went to help pawpaw and mawmaw with goober harvest!
you probably didn't need a treadmill to get exercise. Did you do high school sports well?
My mom was from West Virginia, and she brought something back that was really tasty-- grilled PB&J. Used to eat it as a kid. Simple, just sourdough bread grilled with butter like a grilled cheese sandwich. The crispness of the grilled bread, mixed with the sweetness of jam and the saltiness of the peanut butter was pretty amazing!
Erik ThompsonYum!
PB & cream cheese is also great.
I love peanuts. So much so that as a child I decided to grow my own. Spent the spring and summer carefully tending my one plant. Harvesting time i eagerly anticipated eating fresh from the ground peanuts!!.......2 pods totaling 4 nuts? Went across the street and bought a Planters peanut packet 10 cents. Thus ending my Farmer career. ;}
Not all of us can have a green thumb!
Caveman I love peanut butter. I love toast and jam. 🎶🎶😁
Look on the bright side. At least you didn't have to chase crows away from your plant.
When I grew my own nuts I only got two.
My dad was a south Georgia farmer, us kids would dive into a trailer full of peanuts and swim around in them.
As a long retired general pediatrician in northern California, I just really appreciated
this sketch. Thank you so much.
George Washington Carver was a great man for his contribution to the use of peanuts. Not only did he found so many ways to use peanuts but also discovered other uses for soybeans and sweet potatoes and was sort of an American "DaVinci". What's so amazing about him was that despite the fame he was known for, he kept himself humble to the end. His tombstone epithet states, "He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world." Truly a very remarkable man.
I should say so.
And he was a great friend of Abraham Lincoln's.
It's a shame he drove himself mad trying to compress peanuts into a phonograph needle while his nemesis William "Skippy " Jif stole his ideas and reaped untold fortunes.
LOL
@proteusx only a dumb person would say something so dumb.
proteusx Huh? I eat peanut butter almost every day, and I'm Canadian.
My dad has farmed peanuts for over 40 years. I can’t wait to share this with him.
One thing I didn't know was something I somewhat guessed, given the time of introduction into the west - the origin being South America.
It makes me wonder what local cultivars still exist in the region. Given how wonderful Ethiopian coffee is, which is where coffee originated, my mouth is already watering.
@@spvillano Heirloom peanuts could definitely catch on as the next big food craze
My favorite breakfast, eaten almost daily: crunchy peanut butter on toast, washed down with coffee, cream & sugar...yum! Still going strong in my 70's!
Frankly Frank Being a dick and being frank aren't the same thing.
My initial purpose in posting here was to affirm what I took to be THG's point: that the invention/discovery of peanut butter has, on the whole, been a nutritious, delicious and beneficial addition to mankind's collective foodstuffs. As I stated, this is purely my opinion...others' mileage may vary.
It's distressing that, rather than constructively contribute to the discussion (where alternate viewpoints are allowed), another poster chose instead to crudely insult a target of whom he has absolutely no personal knowledge. Unfortunately seems to have become the substitute for discourse on the "infernal" net today.
@Frankly Frank Trolls eat shit. Eat shit troll.
@@richardklug822 Feed that troll crunchy peanut butter on toast and don't lose any sleep over it brother. Stay well!
Richard Klug - What? I thought I was the only one that had that for breakfast? Extra crunchy Jiff, whole wheat toast, and coffee black.
For several decades my family has enjoyed singing around a campfire the song "Goober Peas" ! It goes as such during the chorus ' peas, peas, peas, peas, eating goober peas, goodness how delicious, eating Goober peas!' There are multiple verses which I'll try to DM you. Or look it up. It's a been a family favorite.....well, since I can remember! And I'm told by my father, that it was a civil war era tune. 😂😂 and then you mention it in the next segment, excellent! And the legacy continues! 👍😉😂😂
Poked around the comments, didn't see my favorite combo mentioned, that is peanut butter and honey. I have been baking bread for a long time, make my own sourdough bread. When it's cool enough to slice, P&H on warm sourdough is a slice of heaven!
elvis presley's favorite sandwich was peanut butter and bananas.
@@rodneyjohnson4794 My wife likes that combination but I gag thinking about it. Yes I have tried it but NO!
Did you know bees are actually legumes?
Crazy, right?
@@alex0589 what??
Peanut Butter and King Syrup and just a tiny bit of butter.
Great photo images. I and my 5 brothers and sisters were among those farm children who spent their summers from sunup to sundown in the middle 40 acres of peanuts. As soon as school year ended and we got off the bus for the last time, seems that the next day we would sharpen our hoes and go to weeding those little commercial plants. The sun was hot, the gnats were in our faces, and there was a jug of ice water at the end of the row. After a month we had to put down our hoes and resort to pulling up the weeds (cockleburrs, coffee weeds and buffalo grass) by hand combat. Not only was it backbreaking work, but our hands developed thick black and green callouses.
When I was young, the farmers would plow beneath the peanut vines with a wide blade, then the vines would be pulled up sometimes by hand and stacked by pitchfork onto bean poles like haystacks. A threshing machine would be dragged up to the stack and the crop would be fed by pitchfork into the machine. But a few years later the technology improved. The vines were plowed up by a tractor-powered "peanut shaker" which left the peanuts in windrows where they would dry. The peanut combine pulled by a tractor would travel up and down the rows consuming the vines, threshing out the peanuts and spewing the vines out the back -- and creating a massive choking cloud of dust. On the combine's side was a small platform where my brother and I sacked the peanuts. Two burlap sacks hung on the the mouth of the chute. When one bag was filled, we threw the flapper valve to fill the other bag and stacked the full bags around and above us on the platform until we stopped at the end of the row and stacked them off. Those stacks of bagged peanuts would then be thrown by hand up into a two-ton truck to be hauled to market.
I've been gone from the farm for 50 years. The development of herbicides means no farm children spend their summers swatting gnats and pulling weeds in the hot sun. Nowadays my farming brother operates the peanut combine from inside the air-conditioned cab of his tractor. The combine sends the threshed peanuts up into a large hopper. And when full the hopper is dumped using hydraulic piston power into the trailers.
But, as I say, it was good hard work.
what a story... people don't realize what farm labor is ( and was)... Thanks for this..
@@albertoborrero8306 just working some really tiny plots I figured out how much work a full farm was.
I think of that every time I prepare and consume a meal!
One of my most vivid childhood traumas involved a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich, I flew from Hong Kong to England for a kids summer camp at age 8. The day before the first outing we were asked what sandwich we wanted for the packed lunch. I asked for Peanut Butter and Jelly and the camp leader asked me why I would want that, I replied I always have it.
The next day I opened my packed lunch to find a Peanut Butter and JELLO sandwich. I asked the leader why, she replied "It's exactly what you asked for. Now eat it!"
I found out that in England Jelly is JELLO and I should have asked for Jam in the sandwich. I also learned the leader didn't like me, the American accented British kid. I wasn't even allowed to take the JELLO out of the sandwich and forced to eat it. As a privileged 8-year-old, it certainly felt traumatic.
She knew what she was doing. Not cool dude.
Peanut butter and cream cheese sounds wonderful! As a kid, I remember my grandmother making us peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches, and a friend of hers made peanut butter and American cheese sandwiches. Perhaps the trauma of eating those variations has blocked my memory of them. My all-time favorite was peanut butter with honey, bananas and raisins.
Growing up I used to eat a "butter butter" sandwich that was Peanut butter and butter. Don't think I'd make one today but I loved them as a kid
Three juveniles were brought before a judge. The judge asked the first boy why he'd been brought into the courtroom today. "I threw peanuts into the elephant pen". The judge asked the second boy why he was in court, and the boy replied " I threw peanuts into the elephant pen". The judge asked the same question of the third boy, who was a foot and a half shorter than the others. "I'm Peanuts", came the reply.
Me, too!
Ive never heard the word "fluffernutter" said before with so much reverence.
Cleary in LaLa land a fluffernutter is an overzealous fluffer and production takes a major setback!
I haven't had one in probably 40 years at least!! They were great! Makes me want to run tio the store to get supine fluff and peanut butter and bread right now!! And I think I will do just that now!!
I always have time for a fluffernutter
With all my heart, I deeply honor those who have labored to save the lives of starving children.
Fluffernutter on 9 grain toast! My parents were beatnics, so multigrain fresh baked bread was always on the table!
Oh what fond memories of going to Hyannis Massachusetts on vacation and walking down the street and smelling fresh roasted peanuts coming from the planters peanut store, the one with the peanut wearing a top hat and monocle and cane. And the taste of those fresh roasted nuts was heavenly!! Or the ball park or circus....times long since past and forgotten,sadly.
Way back in the 1960's, Peanut butter was also a common "Fall-out Shelter" food!
In the basement of my Elementary School was tons of emergency food. Much of that was Peanut based!
There were many, many cases of Peanut butter too!
Never saw the inside of a shelter, but I do remember hearing the sirens everyday at noon.
@@shorttimer874 I remember being trained to hide under my school desk, to save myself from an atomic bomb. That would have been in 1959.
This brought back memories of writing my first term paper many years ago. Before a peanut farmer became president, when a comic about Charlie Brown and his friends was popular, in 8th grade I wrote "Peanuts". Everybody upon hearing the title assumed it waa about Charles Schultz's creation. In my young mind it was a clever misdirection. I earned an "A". My teacher said it could've been "A+"but my typing was atrocious. Thanks for your wonderful forays into our past.
The mention of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups reminded me of working with a man who was tasked with the job of designing the machinery to pick up the finished candy and placing it in position for the final packaging. They originally used a vacuum system to pick up the finished candy, but if it wasn't adjusted exactly right and the candy was too soft, it would end up sucking the candy up into the tooling rather than just picking it up. That's one of those little curiosities that you just don't normally think of.
Another excellent video! I've got a row of peanuts growing in my garden now.
@John Signs you got your chocolate and peanutbutter stuck in my machine.
Peanut butter was invented by someone who, like me, had their own teeth, but couldn't remember where they'd left them....
Thanks THG.
Ian Bunyan: Of course they’re my teeth! They’re bought and paid for!
Hey Ian! If you find your teeth, see if my glasses happen to be in the area!
@@OldMtnGeezer it'd be nice if I could find my glasses, but I need glasses just to find them.
And need a cataract removed now, the other was removed years ago, now the other one is finally giving me trouble seeing.
If I had been allergic to peanuts, I would have starved to death as a child. Peanut butter was pretty much the only thing I’d eat by choice. It’s still my favorite food, more than 50 years later.
Sometimes peanut butter and crackers was just all we had. To this day without a jar of peanut butter in the cabinet I feel we don't have any food.
Amen!
Mine also. I took a PB & J to school every day from K to 12, even while living in Europe and Asia.
you and me both brother, its the goto favorite.
PB&J has to be Skippy Crunchy and Smucker's raspberry jam (with the seeds). Ahh that's heaven to this day (I'm 73).
Thank you, that was great history that deserves to be remembered, Years ago I read an article about nutrition and national disasters . It recommended peanut butter, you can literally “Live off of it.” It is a non refrigerated highly nutritional food with high protein . It goes everywhere in its very rugged plastic container jars that last months once opened with no fridge requirements. It is a great back pack food.
Even the humble peanut deserves to be remembered.
Would love to see at least a mention of “boiled peanuts “. A delicacy in the South as well as a historical footnote to the survival of the Confederate families during the War!
Here is a fun fact: In Enterprise Alabama there is a monument to the Boll Weevil, the pest that wiped out local cotton crops and "forced" the switch to peanuts, and yes thanks to GWC, the rest is history!
I can’t believe that wasn’t included. My mother is from Enterprise, and my grandfather worked at Sessions Peanut company. Those peanut root run deep, in our family; at least 6 feet, so I’m told. I was going to show this to mom on Sunday, but I think I’ll skip it, now...
I had heard of this statue to a bug but never understood why, now I do, thank you for that snippet.
@@johnmccallum8512 I was at nearby Fort Rucker for Army helicopter training in the 90's. We were told the Boll Weevil statue is the only statue to an insect in the USA. They are very proud of it there.
Born in Fort Rucker. I made a large pot of Cajun spiced boiled peanuts last week. Working from home is awesome.
And Dothan is billed as the "Peanut capitol of the world."
Thank you so much for your content. I don’t know how the pandemic will play out, but your content helps keep us sane. Perhaps, sometime in the future a historian will mention a guy in a bow tie, who worked in his basement- and managed to remind the world about what it means to be human.
Turns out the pandemic completely evepaporated overnight when they found a new excuse to destroy the economy.
You’ll be fine, just stop watching the news.
🤣 YOU CITY FOLK IS SUMTIN ELSE!!!
I'm surprised you didn't mention President Carter's peanut farm. That's history that deserves to be remembered.
I'm always annoyed when my bag of "mixed nuts" turns out to be more the 50% peanuts.
I appreciate the vigor that THG approaches seemingly mundane topics. Indeed we learn that there is nothing mundane at all about our world. I pray you can continue these awesome videos for many many years to come.
“Indeed we learn that there is nothing mundane at all about our world.” - knightforlorn6731 - History that deserves to be remembered.
Thank you both, and anyone else that agrees with these comments.
Hard to imagine a world without peanuts.
"Pay peanuts, get monkeys."
One of the favourite foods of the 'prepper' movement because it's cheap, high calorie and lasts for years if left sealed (i.e. good for underground caches.)
Excellent episode as always!
My daughter knows how much I love peanuts in shell that she gifted me last Christmas three big bags of them! :)
Another great video! Thank you!
PB&J washed down with an ice cold tall glass of milk. Heaven!
ThatGuy I’m almost 40 and it’s the only way since always.
ThatGuy ,
For dessert we will have a couple grubby hands full of homemade peanut butter cookies and more moo juice. And kids want to push growing up. Have you tried peanut butter and honey sandwiches?
@@robertqueberg4612 said "Have you tried peanut butter and honey sandwiches?" Oh hell yeah!! Love 'em!
Unless you're allergic to peanuts and lactose intolerant.
MrAranton your mouth would still enjoy it
You mentioned "sliced bread" becoming the norm in the 1920's.
My thought was that sliced bread was born near me in Chillicothe, MO in 1928.
Available at quality grocers.
The sliced bread capital of the world. Population 9500.
I took a look on the Internet, and several sources agree with you. The bread-slicing machine invented by Iowan Otto Frederick Rohwedder was first used on 7 July 1928 by the Chillicothe Baking Company. I liked reading about the ban on sliced bread instituted by the federal government in 1943, and this housewife's lament in response: "I should like to let you know how important sliced bread is to the morale and saneness of a household. My husband and four children are all in a rush during and after breakfast. Without ready-sliced bread I must do the slicing for toast-two pieces for each one-that's ten. For their lunches I must cut by hand at least twenty slices, for two sandwiches apiece. Afterward I make my own toast. Twenty-two slices of bread to be cut in a hurry!" (The New York Times, 26 January 1943)
I saw the title and thought we were going to learn about Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Hey, THAT's some history that deserves to be remembered!
I thought the same.
Except for the every ending of said history. A very sad ending, that is.
I quickly read the History Guy intro under the video and thought it said "how peanuts have pleased PIRATES throughout history" and I thought: This will be spectacular. LOL
If I may paraphrase, "Doesn't every good story have pirates?"
I probably would have seen it that way PRE cup of coffee myself.
They travel well, and are quite suitable to marine voyage. ;)
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered The peanuts, the pirates, or both? :-)
@@weldonwilson Both!
Thanks for this video and Thanks to all of you who shared your farming experiences. My mom used to gather cotton as a young teenager in the 30s, but she hated talking about it. She only said it was very hot, dirty and exhausting. I think I understood what she meant when I saw the movie Places in the Heart.
Many thanks to all who worked the fields in the past and those who have followed them. God bless you all for putting food on our tables.
I used to live in Goobertown, Arkansas. Sadly everyone moved away and they took the post office and town consideration away so it is no more🤦♀️
Only The History Guy can make even peanuts fascinating. You never cease to amaze me.
Wonderful item.
I love peanut butter and eat it every day.
My family name is Chandler and I am from Canada so I was pleased to hear that the first patent for peanut butter was given to a Canadian from Montreal in 1884.
I was doubly pleased to find that Julia Chandler published a recipe for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in 1901.
My all time favourite peanut butter is the Smucker's Natural variety and although I have tried peanut butter all over the world, I have never found one to beat it.
You have to stir the oil back in to the mix before using it, but it is well worth the trouble.
Keep this kind of thing coming.
Such an interesting video! By the way, in India, it's still popularly called 'Groundnuts'. We also use Groundnut Oil in our cooking.
In german they're called *erdnuss.* Erd = earth/ground/dirt, nuss = nut.
But the loanword *peanut* is common too.
@@lakrids-pibe, same here in India too. The younger generation prefer to call it 'Peanut'.
@barefoot arizona What's that?
Thanks. I was wondering why the term "ground nuts" seemed so familiar (I have been to India a few times and obviously heard it there).
I remember seeing an old man buying peanuts for his grandson from a mobile vendor on a train in the middle of southern India (Karnakata) in 1991. It really struck me what a small quantity (not much larger than a thimblefull) he bought compared to what someone in the west would have bought.
Interesting and informative as usual, I really enjoy your videos, thank you.
Just wanted to say that peanut butter with jelly is not such a usual combination here in Britain. Most people here use it as a savoury spread, maybe American food is more closely related to traditional German tastes.
My favourite breakfast is toast with peanut butter, yeast extract and a chopped bird’s eye chilli. Wakes me up fast!
Thank you for bringing the idea of mixing cream cheese, peanut butter, and waffles to light. I will have to try that...
I tend to mix a few spoon fulls of crunchy peanut butter into pan fried veggies. A few drops of sesame oil, a solid dash of ginger powder plus a few other spices, and golden raisins make for a tasty stir fry.
8:56 I'll try cream cheese and peanut butter the next time I have waffles.
I had to skip back to hear that again. Is there a recipe, or is it just 50/50? We need answers! "Looks like waffles are back on the menu, boys!"
@@nelsonbrum8496 as I wrote on this when I was younger I made peanut butter and cream cheese on a bagel.
The movie "The Road To Wellville" is a masterpiece, speaking of Kellogg.
Fun Fact: More peanuts travel through Lexington KY than any other city in the world. It is home to the JIF Peanut Butter factory and is the largest producer of peanut butter in the world
Jif Peanut Butter is the best too! I frequently make PB&J toast for breakfast with creamy Jif on one slice and blackberry jam on the other. Yummie!
Hey Playboy, that presentation was extra smooth and creamy ! Damn Skippy I'm with it!
My wife ran a non-denomination Christian mission on the Pine Ridge Sioux reservation in Wanblee, SD. The indians got food supplements from the government. Shortly after Jimmy Carter took office the Sioux started getting large cans of low quality peanut butter in the federal food supplements. They could not eat it and it went into the dump. My wife's mission had a pony for the kids that stayed there. My wife collected the cans. The pony loved the peanut butter.
Man, this video is nuts.
I can't imagine making peanut butter with a mortar & pestle. That had to have taken forever!
Don't know how I missed this episode for nearly a year! Your last observations by the doctor who utilizes peanut butter in treating malnourished children could have tied to the widespread use of a peanut-based paste, "Plumpy Nut" (and similar products) in treating famine and malnutrition globally. Invented in 1996 by a French nutritionist, it has saved the lives of millions of adults and children both.
Sitting down and spending time shelling peanuts is one of my favorite hobbies.
I've always been a little nutz about nuts. Peanuts, walnuts, almonds (pronounced ah-mond or al-mond, depending on regional upbringing lol), hazelnuts, pecans and my personal favorite, the Brazil nut. And, of course, I eat plenty of peanut butter, particularly w/ apples and bananas and always shared w/ my Bull Terrier, Malcolm. My family always has a bowl full of mixed nuts during the holidays and its fun to see which nuts go first and who likes which nut more than others. As mentioned, I went after the Brazil nuts, but my sisters went after the pecans and walnuts. Mother went for the hazelnuts and Pop went for the venerable peanuts. It was my job to keep the bowl full and remove the empty shells. I'd refill that big wooden bowl easily twice a week.
On vacation in Maine as a kid, we'd wander the woods on search of *beechnuts*. They were delicious, but I haven't eaten them in over 50 years, and I don't recall ever seeing them in a store.
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
Felt that at work today.
Just want to say that, via The History Guy, I now have a subscription to the Magellan channel. By far, it is, in my opinion, the best channel of all the offerings of Roku. In fact, can't think of a better way to binge during the Corona Virus.
Man, fluffernutters where my childhood.
When I moved out of new england and moved to texas it blew me away how no one knew what it was.
The nitrogen-fixing ability of legumes is overstated. Because feeding the fixing rhizobia bacteria costs the plant, it will take up soil nitrogen first (in the form of ammonia, nitrate, or nitrite). If the crop is removed, the nitrogen goes with it, whether fixed or from the soil. The only way to get legume-fixed nitrogen into the soil is to plow down the crop without harvesting it, which is what the old advice was.
@ Nowadays, mostly from fertilizers.
Where I know it comes from in natural systems is In rain from lightning-fixation of atmospheric N2, and yes, from fixation by plants.
Under natural, uncropped or non-livestock-grazed, conditions, annual additions and removals are small and the pool mostly keeps recycling. Start cropping or livestock grazing (with cropping of the animals) and nitrogen removals exceed additions.
To use legumes to replace nitrogen in useful amounts in depleted soils, plants must be uncropped and plowed under to get the nitrogen into the soil, precisely the procedure under "green manure" systems of the pre-fertilizer age. Soybeans were once touted as a great green manure crop, when plowed under. Harvest the beans and you're taking away all of the fixed and any pre-existing soil nitrogen they scavenged before being forced to begin fixation.
This applies particularly to annual plants (nearly all crops) as they put everything into seed, no root reserves, etc. Perennial legumes, such as found in natural grasslands, can add more as much or all of whatever nitrogen they fix is recycled.
A suggestion for a future episode:
"The best thing since ...." Certain inventions and introductions are regarded as milestones. Examples: "Best thing since sliced bread!" (1920 introduction of pre-sliced bread loaves) ; "As important as the invention of the wheel" (prehistory) ; Invention of the plow or plough (wood then steel) creating a "green revolution" of the time.
Thank you,
Your loyal follower and viewer.
Well, obviously, the best thing since sliced bread (at the time of it's invention) would be the PB&J!
Fluffernutters are still a popular thing in Massachusetts. They actually even have an annual Fluffernutter Festival.
The History Guy: I'm thankful that you mentioned George Washington Carver. He is a forgotten man who changed farming in very significant ways. There is a national monument in his name, located in South/West Missouri. Not too far from Joplin, where I spent most of my life. He was a brilliant man. I think he deserves a Rememberance of his own. I hope you are interested in doing this.
Don't forget that President Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer. I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned, nor the spectacular failure of the Tanganyka Groundnut Scheme in the 50s.
His brother had his own beer... Billy Beer.
Given that I like Reese’s cups, snickers, and planter peanuts, you could say that I should be appreciative of the South Americans, John Harvey Kellogg, and George Washington Carver given their contributions to this legume.
"you could say that I should be appreciative" Well, are you?
Whitestone21475: yes I am. Without them, many of the products would not have existed.
Well, you haven't lived til you've attended the Annual Suffolk Peanut Festival in Suffolk, VA!
My son would not eat anything but peanut butter during his third or fourth year of age. His mother hid all sorts of healthy foods but he wouldn't have any of it. We were needlessly worried. He is now 6 ft 3 and in terrific shape in his fourties.
Great episode.
One of my favorite sandwiches remains, Peanut Butter/Mayonnaise/Bacon, on whole wheat bread, preferably Wonder Bread.
J McD you should try peanut butter and sweet bread and butter pickles! It adds an extra acidic flavor that jelly just can’t match.
@Laura Anderson…...And ...so is the Elvis favorite....peanut butter and sliced banana.
Oh dear god. Do you. But that sounds horrible and the idea makes me sick lol
I had a friend that made sandwiches out of peanut butter and Fritos corn chips. She packed a couple of sandwiches that she ate the next day. Imagine the corn chips after sitting in peanut butter for 24 hours!
Interestingly, many other countries have no connection at all between elephants and peanuts. It seems that's another one of P.T. Barnum's legacies.
In the UK the stereotypical food connected with elephants is sticky buns - interestingly because of the same exact elephant, Jumbo, as people used to (inadvisably) feed him those in London Zoo before Barnum controversially bought him.
I'm a little late, but the peanut puffs towards the end of the video are called Bamba (במבה). They are a snack food invented in Israel around 1964. The study you mention of introducing peanuts to infants is because of a study done with Israelis and Bamba, when the remarkably low rates of peanut allergies in Israeli children was noticed. It makes up around 25% of the snack foods in Israel, and are delicious. You can buy them in the states (much to the delight of Israelis like myself) and they even have a baby as the mascot because they are safe for infants. They contain just 4 ingredients: peanuts, corn, palm oil, and salt.
My brother hates peanuts, he had a habit of swiping any food I'd made for myself so to stop that I'd add peanut butter to pretty much any sandwich I made. I can recommend peanut butter, cheese and bacon and bonus no fraternal theft.
You are the best channel on TH-cam. Keep it up!
Very interesting video. I always thought it was George Washington Carver that came up with peanut butter. I like what you do on here. Would you be interested in doing a video about the Port Chicago Explosion during WW2? It's a bit of local history for me and the 100+ men who died deserve to be remembered.
For some reason I think he did that but it wasn't that name. I could be wrong.
Let us not forget the delicious Elvis sandwich or my personal favorite, the Elvis Fench Toast with bacon on the side. I now what's for breakfast tomorrow! Yum!
I have to say that when I was living in South America I found the best peanuts I've ever eaten being sold in markets and by street vendors. I especially enjoyed one variety which had usually at least 5 small-ish peanuts in each pod (and not "long" like Virginia peanuts) with bright purple husks, and exquisitely rich and savory flavor. Often in outdoor markets there would be small vendors with charcoal burners set up, roasting peanuts in a pan, and selling them in small cones of newsprint.
Rick Valley: Fresh is always best!
Boiled peanuts are awesome!!!
Absolutely love this, I remember my jr high teacher playing the goober pea song one day as class began explaining it was about peanuts during the period we were learning about. Keep making amazing videos.
Living in southern Alabama and north Georgia in the early '70s, my wife and I discovered boiled peanuts sold steet side buy vendors. A large kettle boiled the nuts and when done, were skimmed out while hot into paper bags. It's our favorite way to eat peanuts now. When we can find the raw nuts, we use a Crock Pot for an overnight cooking. Now it's a comfort food!
Sheesh... now all I want is a peanut butter sandwich on soft white bread -- and a glass of milk to wash it down! Bananas and PB, crisp apples and PB, chocolate and PB, PB ice cream, PB cookies... seriously, is there any food that doesn't go with PB? And now THG has informed me about a cream cheese and PB concoction to go on waffles! ... Heading for the kitchen now.
Great, Lance! Now I'm hungry for Reese's Pieces and it's only 7 AM.
cpnscarlet Lance is also the name of a company that sells peanut in little bags. What a coincidence!
Time of day never stopped me. Great breakfast. Lol
@@chomama1628 I forgot about that. LOL.
Addiction is hell, eh?
My favorite thing about this, is that peanuts were called goobers. Thank you.
They still are, in the candy section look for Goobers and Raisinettes.
Peanuts sold at sports stadiums have always been popular.
I recall a published interview with the famous food concessioneer Harry M. Stevens where he discussed the packaging of peanuts by his workers. He had his workers, mostly young kids, work in groups bagging in-shell peanuts for stadium events. Each bag of peanuts was hand-counted and he first found that his profits increased if he put one less peanut in every bag. His profit also increased if he passed out Chewing Gum to the workers bagging the peanuts.
As nutritionally wholesome as the peanut butter sandwich may be you're content is, even more so, intellectually and spiritually wholesome.
This is my favorite late night lockdown snack. A peanut butter sandwich (with butter not margarine and no jelly/jam) and a cup of tea. Very bad for the waistline though.
I also prefer a peanut butter sandwich with butter! Jelly is just too sweet and makes the bread soggy.
Try adding raisins to it. Gets a bit of the fruit component without all the sugar and moisture.
Thank you ! Y’all make my mornings .
Peanut butter and banana sandwich..toast the bread lightly. Rock simple to do and really good...
Don't forget a southern tradition of peanuts in Coke . Thank you for another great history lesson.
A bottle of RC cola caught a handful peanuts from the penny vendor the first time I tried peanuts & pop.
@@kenycharles8600 My father was from the Texas Panhandle and always put peanuts in his coke. I was born in the west and only southern transplants didn't look sideways at him when he did it. I never developed a taste for it myself.
The boll weevil was so important to Enterprise Al. That they have a monument to it!!!
"I'm Charles M. Schulz and I approved this video."
Shows you how integral peanuts are to the American culture.
I am English and grew up in the 1950s eating peanut butter as a savoury spread, in a sandwich with tomato and cucumber. I think that, when peanut butter crossed the Atlantic, the habit of eating it with jam didn't come with it, and it is definitely on the savoury or salty end of the spectrum here. They have recently even released a peanut butter and Marmite (savoury yeast spread) version, which is delicious!
How the heck you said fluffernutter with a straight face is beyond me xD
Americans are often surprised when they find out that europeans have very limited interest in peanut butter and jam sandwiches. Sometimes it's attributed to a misunderstanding about what kind of jam that should be used (not Jello), but I think it's simply because we dont have the same feelings about it as comfort food from childhood as americans has.
I had plenty of access to it in The Netherlands, except we call it Peanut cheese and is only lightly sugared.
I think the comfort foods of Europeans’ childhoods are different, and vary more regionally.
@Sandra Streifel I agree.
@Alex Veldhuis Peanut butter is avaiable in Denmark as well, but people don't eat it nearly as often as americans. Don't you put chocolate sprinkles on your sandwiches? We use pålægschokolade. And liver pâté. And danish salami with remoulade. PB&J is just not a "thing"
@@lakrids-pibe Well, I'll be honest and tell you we as a family emigrated to the UK in '79, but yes we tend to have peanutbutter on its own or with the choclate sprinkles, locally called ''hagelslag'. But we're weird, we have quite a few high sugar toppings for our open sandwiches, including sugar coated aniseeds that get called 'stamped mice' ha ha. there are numerous sliced meats, patees, smoked sausage, salamis and of course cheeses.
My favourite childhood sandwiches were devilled ham, or chicken spread, here in Canada. My parents and grandparents thought peanut butter was odd!
We still grow them around Cape Fear!
Good film.......
Edward Stephens “i grow peanuts out of Fear...”
Sandwiches made with peanut butter, strawberry preserves, and sliced bananas on Eggo waffles is one my favorite things ever.
In the UK peanuts were known as Monkey Nuts named after the monkey printed on the packet. At the sea side it was common to see a vendor wandering along the beach with a large wicket basket selling crisps(potato chips to our American cousins) and Monkey Nuts plus other assorted cold snacks. The Monkey Nuts were still in their shells. These nuts are popular with grey squirrels in the London parks such as St James park. It is a traditional childhood activity with ones parents and grand parents to feed the ducks and squirrels in the park.
Sadly, I had to give up peanuts and peanut products because their oxalate content contributed to kidney stone formation. I love peanuts, but I am NO fan of the stones (I'm OK with The Stones).
I can't get no .. peanut butter.
@@pipe2devnull That*s what I say?
Same with spinach, which was a favorite of mine.
Hugh Askew The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred and Barney...(stolen from Steven Wright)
PB&J sandwich with large cold glass of milk. Always satisfies.
Oh, NUTS! I miss Tom's peanut butter logs candy!
Was in Spain last winter. They sell roasted Chestnuts on the street. It was a blast of nostalgia because I remember buying roast chestnuts when I was a kid in northeast Pennsylvania!
Oh but the biggest question of them all. Crunchy or smooth.
Crunchy.
smooth.
Any plans for making an episode on Upton Sinclair?
Two things to tell you here.
1st, I’m from Boston and have been eating Fluffenutter sandwiches for over 55 years. In 1979 I was in college in Milwaukee and wanted one but there was no Marshmallow Fluff (trademarked) the whipped marshmallow spread that is the fluff in that sandwich’s name.
I did not realize that it was a local treat. While searching I found Kraft Marshmallow topping for ice cream. On the back of the jar was a recipe for the “Boston Marshmallow Sandwich”.
When I tried to entice my roommate to try it he thought I was insane.
2nd I had two aunts who lived with my family. They born at the start of twentieth century.
When they passed and we were cleaning out their things, I found a copy of a cook book published by the Boston Cooking School. I still have tucked away although the pages are quite brittle. It is an interesting read and parts are a sting remainder of how far we have come in last century. It talks about flour for the home in terms of barrels. Tells the reader of the importance of having bread at every meal and when giving directions on baking that bread cautions that you must build a fire in the stove to give an even heat for time required for the baking.
Remember Justin Wilson? He put peanut butter in his chili. I have modified his recipe. When I make beans I add peanut butter to the beans after the beans are cooked. You gotta stir until blended. It makes the juice thicker and more flavorful. Since both are legumes it doesn't change the nutritional profile so much (I'm guessing) but it really enhances the flavor. Everyone has a second bowl. Enjoy