Peanut Butter (was Vile sandwiches)

[Jo]

> I am wondering if this is an American thing. Whenever I have lived 
> abroad everyone has been aghast at my taste for peanut butter! When 
I 
> lived in Turkey I had to send out for it and my students would LAUGH 
> at me!
> 
> Whose idea was peanut butter anyway?
> 
> Suzanne

We all owe this wonderful American food to George Washington Carver, 
an agriculturalist from somewhere in the Southeast (Georgia I think) 
who invented over 100 uses for the illustrious goober.

Professor Phlash