Grand Saline, Texas, holds the
record for the largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which
weighed in at 1,342 pounds.
More than half of the American peanut crop is used to make peanut
butter and the US is the world’s third-highest peanut-producing
nation, after China and India.
It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
Peanut butter sales were confined to regional markets until the
development of hydrogenation in the 1920s. Hydrogenation stops the
separation of peanut oil and solids by raising the melting point so
that peanut butter is a solid at room temperature.
Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the
top of your mouth.