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Sweet Potato – I am first
I think you meant to say “I yam first”
I spam first? -.-
Im not Roflman
George Washington Carver didn’t invent peanut butter, John Kellogg did.
Yeah, what he said. He was an awesome botanist, but no peanut butter.
This chart doesn’t specifically say that he invented it. “GWC Innovations”, which could be taken to mean that he innovated *with* peanut butter.
Peanut butter was used by the Aztecs long ago. The first western patent for peanut butter was before he even started researching peanuts, but finalized after.
Acturally, everyone is wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Gilmore_Edson
Wait…, that episode of American Dad is true?
Somewhat; no it wasnt carver, but it’s not a huge conspiracy to hide the true maker of peanut butter, who was stated above.
Oh, yes, the common misconception. George Washinton Carver was NOT the person who invented penut butter. Carver is famous because he sugested to Southern farmers after the civil war to grow penuts which are easier to pick than cotton. He also have over a hundred uses for penuts, including in a shampoo. ‘Nuff said.
Nope. John Kellog was William Keith Kellog’s brother. John invented cornflakes, William bought his brother’s shares in the sanitarium they were running, and used the money to karket corn flakes nation wide.
They never spoke again.
Carver discovered that peanuts (a legume) are good to plant in between wheat crops( crop rotation), they return nitrogen to the soil, and increase the wheat crop next year. To market it to the farmers he came up with many innovative uses for peanuts, including peanut butter.
I know he invented corn flakes, but at the World’s Fair John marketed peanut butter as a protein supplement for people with no teeth, and no, George did NOT INVENT PEANUT BUTTER! he did invent a lovely peanut foot rub though.
US Patent #306727 issued to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, in 1884, for a process of milling roasted peanuts between heated surfaces until the peanuts reached “a fluid or semi-fluid state.” As the product cooled, it set into what Edson described as “a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment.”-Copied and pasted from Wikipedia article “Peanut Butter”
Carver was 20 at the time, Carver did not even begin studying botany until 1891, seven years later.
The information above was taken from wikipedia and double checked using encyclopedia britannica. Please feel free to research the information above through the US patent office and other public resources and encyclopedias to confirm or refute for your own satisfaction.
The first thing my teacher said about Carver, “He didn’t invent peanut butter!”
And you’re surprised by this?
hmm, a dude beat me to it. Peanut shampoo, yep; peanut butter, nope.
This graph is just (pea)nuts!
This graph would have looked so much more appetizing superimposed over a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.
You mean, *perceived* Relevance.
Would be funnier if GWC actually invented peanut butter.
I don’t get it. I don’t think he invented peanut butter.
I don’t care who invented it, I love peanut butter.
I love the fact that it’s a peanut butter colored!
yea, tyler s fails
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpeanutbutter.htm
Agricultural chemist, George Washington Carver discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. He start popularizing uses for peanut products including peanut butter, paper, ink, and oils beginning in 1880. The most famous of Carver’s research took place after he arrived in Tuskeegee in 1896. However, Carver did not patent peanut butter as he believed food products were all gifts from God. The 1880 date precedes all the above inventors except of course for the Incas, who were first. It was Carver who made peanuts a significant crop in the American South in the early 1900′s.
Peanut Butter could be attributed to many of the peanut farmers of the Southern regions of the time.
George Washington Carver did list it along with at least 299 other uses for Peanuts.
The idea was that the soil could be rejuvinated with crop rotation by planting things like Sweet Potatoes and Peanuts. Only problem was that the farmers were ending up with an excess of peanuts that no one needed.
So Carver went to the task of figuring out as many uses as possible for the peanuts. He didn’t invent them, but he did help make them popular.
But lets not trivialize his other great feats among which was a traveling school/book mobile to educate black people.
Excellent!
blah, blah, blah.
Carver didn’t invent peanut butter. He discovered crop rotation, and he made hundreds of other products.
I doubt he “discovered” crop rotation. Made it popular when it wasn’t, yes, but I am sure in the thousands of years people have been cultivating crops, someone realized the benefits of crop rotation before he did. Perhaps those Incans who discovered peanut butter?
He didn’t exactly discover crop rotation either, there are several mentions of crop rotation amongst ancient texts. He might have discovered crop rotation, but first he had to invent the time machine, or did he just go hitchhiking in hill valley one day? A flying delorean? What the he77 is going on here?
Nowhere in that graph does it ever use the word ‘invent’ or ‘patent’. He did ‘innovate’ it by pushing crop rotation and providing Peanut Butter as one of the many things to make with the excess peanuts thus pushing it into mass popularity.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/innovate
–verb (used without object) 1. to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
–verb (used with object) 2. to introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time: to innovate a computer operating system.
3. Archaic. to alter.
The sad thing is, Tyler S probably thought about it and chose the word “innovations” so people wouldn’t fill the comments up with blather about how GWC didn’t invent peanut butter.
You are all aware that George Washington Carver actually invented the computer with a peanut. A PEANUT!!!!
Win.
Looks like someone read about George Washington Carver in his 8th grade history textbook!
I totally did a book report on him when I was 9.
I INVENTED PEANUT BUTTER.
CHUCK NORRIS INVENTED PEANUT BUTTER!
im last at this list itches
chuck norris invented peanut butter
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You would know.
I is ninja! I really don’t like peanut butter.
He invented something besides peanut butter?!