- The first people to eat peanut butter were the Aztecs, who ground roasted Peanuts into a paste.
- A Canadian patented it in 1884. His name was Marcellus Gilmore Edson; he was a pharmacist, and thought it would make a good nutritious food for people who couldn't chew.
- Studies have shown that men tend to prefer crunchy peanut butter while women and children tend to prefer smooth. It was also discovered that, for some reason, people living on the east coast of the US preferred smooth while west coast people preferred crunchy. Nobody knows why.
- The oils found in peanut butter are known to allow chewing gum to be removed from hair.
- It takes 550 peanuts to make a 12 ounce jar of peanut butter
- A slang term for peanut butter in World War II was "monkey butter".
- In the Netherlands peanut butter is called pindakaas (peanut cheese) rather than pindaboter (peanut butter) because the word butter is only supposed to be used with products that actually contain butter.
- While there is a lot of fat in peanut butter, it's the less harmful kind, and there is also protein, vitamins B3 and E, magnesium, folate and fibre in it. Unlike Chocolate, you can feed it to your dog and it's good for him too.
- Peanut butter and jelly, or jam, is the best known peanut butter combo, but it's also good with pickles, mayonnaise, Olives, Onion, Horseradish, chocolate chips, bacon, Honey, Marmite, or Vegemite and marmalade.
- Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
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