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Article: Peanut butter: 100 and still spreading
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 29, 1990
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Happy birthday, peanut butter! In case you have forgotten - or
perhaps you never even knew - March 1 was National Peanut Butter
Lover's Day, honoring the 100th birthday of peanut butter as we know
it.
Yes, peanut butter - that gooey, gluey,
stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth substance that may in fact be more
American than the venerable apple pie. After all, the French have
their tarte tatin and tarte Normande, the Germans their apfelkuchen,
but Europeans eat very little peanut butter.
In the United States, however, peanut butter is a daily favorite
for millions. According to some estimates, 40 million Americans each