When is National Peanut Butter Day?
Tuesday January 24thOn January 24th, National Peanut Butter Day honors an American staple in our pantries. Peanut butter is deservedly deserved each year on this day, whether it be creamy or chunky, with chocolate or with jelly.
Around 1000 BC, the Aztecs and Incas' early peanut butter was more of a paste and not nearly as creamy as modern peanut butter.
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Peanut butter wasn't widely used until the twentieth century. The peanut had to be considered more than animal food, which wasn't until the late 1800s. It's easy to see the peanut as a retail and wholesale food product at the turn of the century. Inventions that made planting, raising, and harvesting the legume (the peanut isn't a nut at all).
