[Emerald U.]

Are You A Peanut Butter Fan?​

Are you a peanut butter fan—PB&J, peanut butter cookies, or maybe just a spoon straight from the jar? However you like it, here are some fun tidbits you might not know.

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For starters, it takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. And to keep the label honest, US law requires that anything called “peanut butter” be at least 90% peanuts.

Peanuts even have presidential ties—two peanut farmers, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and Jimmy Carter of Georgia, made it all the way to the White House!

And here’s a fun geography twist: there are actually six towns in the US named Peanut:

Peanut, California
Lower Peanut, Pennsylvania
Upper Peanut, Pennsylvania
Peanut, Pennsylvania
Peanut, Tennessee
Peanut, West Virginia

Now I’m curious—what’s your favorite way to eat peanut butter?

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[Gayle B.]

My husband turned me onto Peanut Butter and banana slices. That was okay now and then. He also just puts PB on bread and nothing else. He wants it to be creamy.
I prefer Peanut Butter with Strawberry or Cherry Jams. Crunchy is my favorite.