Peanut butter.
You can gobble it like Presidents Jefferson, Carter, and Clinton, or consume enough (along with fellow Americans) to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon every year.
Peanuts (and peanut butter) don’t grow on trees like pecans and almonds. They’re not even a nut. Peanuts are legumes like beans, lentils, and peas that grow in pods (peanut shells). The peanut bush is green, knee high, with tiny yellow flowers. When the flowers wilt, the stem goes underground and four to five months later produces peanuts.
The South American Incas and Mayans loved the native peanut plant. The tribes roasted and ground them into “peanut paste.”
Can you picture Montezuma with a jar of Skippy?
