The Crazy History of Peanuts and Peanut Butter

[@michaelmanning5379]

During the Great Depression the wealthy children of Nova Scotia brought peanut butter sandwiches to school for lunch while the poorer kids had to make do with lobster.

[@moocyfarus8549]

I always think it's funny that the food of poverty and days gone by is now super classy,, my grandparents were Newfie and I remember they always had jars of lobster in the cellar,, now living on the west coast it'll cost me an arm and a leg to have a little bit of lobster for one night

[@Norm475]

@@moocyfarus8549 The same goes for brisket and ribs, both food for the poor in years gone by.

[@pyellard3013]

Same applies to Oysters in England.. Once a despised food of the poor.. Now expensive and treasured.. My understanding is that the overfishing reduction in (non shellfish) fish stocks has helped young lobsters survive to adult hood and therefore increased catches and thereby reduced lobster prices once again.? . Albeit not to 1930`s price levels.

[@Catlily5]

The fact that a food was rare or more expensive made it appealing to the rich. Edit: Which changes over time.

[@kennydavis2276]

Up until 1988 I would go to our local Food World supermarket and the butcher would give me a sack of chicken wings free of charge, usually 3-5 pounds. They just threw them in the trash. Now, they compete with steak in price by weight. SMH

[@peter5.056]

I want take a minute to appreciate all the wonderful foods that emerged from the Americas.

[@Z4RD4N34]

Mmmmmmm..... food

[@guayaquilindependiente8763]

So many that are staples all over the world today. From potatoes to peanuts to pineapples and so many more.

[@peter5.056]

@@guayaquilindependiente8763 Enjoy this Copypasta straight from Wikipedia. Maize (corn), maygrass, and little barley Pseudocereals Amaranth, quinoa, erect knotweed, sumpweed, and sunflowers Pulses Common beans, tepary beans, scarlet runner beans, lima beans, and peanuts Fiber Mexican cotton, yucca, and agave Roots and tubers Jicama, manioc (cassava), potatoes, sweet potatoes, sunchokes, oca, mashua, ulloco, arrowroot, yacon, leren, and groundnuts Fruits Tomatoes, chili peppers, avocados, cranberries, black raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, elderberries, huckleberries, cherimoyas, papayas, pawpaws, passionfruit, pineapples, red raspberries, soursops and strawberries Melons Squashes Meat and poultry Turkey, bison, muscovy ducks, and guinea pigs Nuts Peanut, black walnuts, shagbark hickory, pecans, hickory nuts, acorns from oak trees, pinion pine nuts, cashew nuts Other Chocolate, canna, tobacco, chicle, rubber, maple syrup, birch syrup and vanilla

[@da3musceteers]

Peanuts, corn, cocoa, vanilla, potatoes, tomatoes, some beans, squash, pumpkin, pineapple. I'm probably forgetting some

[@hyleenpognaire8134]

@@da3musceteers chiilies too

[@panqueque445]

"In China, they called them foreign beans. In Japan, they called them Chinese beans" Amazing.

[@johnsmith-ir1ne]

Reminds me of how Hindu numerals were called Arabic numerals by Europeans

[@YusuphYT]

​@@johnsmith-ir1ne Yeah a Arab scientist and mathematician helped bring them to Europeans and the world. Forgot his name but i think it was the Arab man that algorithm is named after, but it may be someone else.

[@YusuphYT]

May have actually been Persian. Not Arab.

[@adriennefloreen]

There's so many examples of that with foods. Other plants too. Like seed companies or plant companies that go to Asia and get some vegetable seeds then sell them in the USA as "Chinese broccoli" or "Chinese kale" instead of gai lan. I have shown so many examples of this that I'm making a video about this specifically. I have over 100 plants with made up names that are foods in other countries with names in a language that are sold in the USA as foods under names that mention a name of another country and an American vegetable, ones that have been renamed and sold as houseplants in the USA like purple shamrock which is a food crop in Peru, and ones that are foods in other countries but are called weeds here, like Puha which is called the sow thistle in the USA.

[@hkchan1339]

You should look up how the Europeans refer to syphillis.

[@diegotrujillo7508]

It's the oink followed by a long silence for me 💀

[@canaanval]

Long pig pause

[@jtgd]

lol i thought i lost signal

[@jamesrocket5616]

I laughed at this part

[@garycarlilejr6376]

Reminds me of an app. Lol

[@brandonbowden1262]

I thought the video quit lol

[@thrillington2008]

I love eating peanuts due to the fact that it tastes so good, long shelf life and rich in fiber and protein and it's an affordable snack. You better show the love if you love eating them.

[@HarborLockRoad]

Ive learned by binge watching this channel that everything originally came from south America, therefore, nobody prior to 1492 had anything to eat. 😁

[@chico2585]

Brasil país de bandido luladrao

[@tracygresham4869]

I had a similar thought. thinking how bland food must have been in europe.

[@Dantick09]

​@@tracygresham4869Onion soup with more onions

[@joechang8696]

European cuisine : pottage al carte

[@MegaBored2]

​@@tracygresham4869 the spice trade was big $$$ just like it is now.

[@kimberlypatton9634]

My stepfather used to live in Savannah, Ga, and I am a native of Georgia, born in Fort Ogelthorpe. Peanuts are to Georgia like hood is to hoodie! I love them in every form but best of all I love them boiled! My dad would bring me many huge cans of boiled peanuts which were my cherished gift! Now.. where's my Reeses' peanut butter cup? ! The gift of the Gods also! Thank you Dr. Carver for your love and work with the darling tubers!

[@spaghettiking7312]

Now, these are the Fire of Learning uploads I truly can never wait for!

[@brunowskijr]

Agreed

[@kalvin9479]

No cap

[@suzanneromijnders6320]

Fun fact: peanut butter is still called peanut cheese in Dutch: "pindakaas". I've heard this was meant to discourage the tendency to eat it on bread without butter, for butter selling reasons.

[@ivorwindybottom7364]

I'm in the U.K. We use butter in a peanut butter sandwich too.

[@Damons-Old-Soul]

I remember hearing or seeing that a high protein food was needed for families and especially children by organizations that worked in areas with very little food available. One of the problems they would run into regularly was that the people lacked the capacity to take in enough calories to sustain themselves for a day. This is when someone came up with the idea that peanut brittle was high calorically with high protein as well. It became a go to for the workers to hand out as a way to help the people slowly gain healthy weight.

[@LumiSisuSusi]

Plumpy'Nut is one of the products that is given out in famine hit areas. I remember learning this when I was 13 in s biology lesson and out teacher was teaching up about deficiencies and Kwashiorkor (a form of severe malnutrition).

[@corrywhatever3516]

I fostered dogs for a while. When I had very underweight dogs that needed to bulk up, I'd add peanut butter and sugar to their dog food. The sugar for energy so that the protein and fat from the PB could be used by their body to re-build. It worked!

[@slcRN1971]

@@corrywhatever3516 : one of the favorite treats for our dogs, was peanut butter. Our Dalmatian was especially partial to it. We’d put it in one of those very hard (hollow) big bones and she would get every bit of it. Those ‘bones’ were suppose to not be broken open by dogs chewing on them. Ha‼️ She was able to.

[@williamchiafos3889]

Commercial peanut butter is now called peanut butter "spread" because there aren't as many peanuts in it. With cotton seed and rape seed being used it's very unhealthy for you.

[@g.m.robertson8700]

Thank,very informative.And well delivered.

[@arnaldorentes5371]

Here in Brazil, we have about thirty native Arachis species, just in Mato Grosso do Sul state. The Krao people cultivated both, Arachis hypogaea and Arachis villosa, as "mandobi". In Portuguese, we call it "amendoim". Thanks for the vídeo!

[@chico2585]

Brasil é o cú do mundo

[@elkixpin]

do the tastes vary by species?

[@arnaldorentes5371]

@elkixpin , unfortunately, I never tried it. I live in São Paulo. I know only that Arachis villosa have hairy pods. It's what "villosa" means, in Latin.

[@span_dread]

That “oink” was gold

[@robertclifford2470]

As an American in Europe I’ve been very surprised how uncommon peanut butter is. I never realized it wasn’t that popular abroad.

[@hkchan1339]

It’s very popular here in Hong Kong I am guessing it spread with American trade and military bases ? Nutella is much more popular in Europe, ,most have not even heard of Nutella in HK , I personally find Nutella too sweet for my taste

[@joshuataylor3550]

Yep, you're definitely American.

[@neilpieterse9614]

Eaten in large amounts in South Africa aswell.

[@Turrican]

It's very common in the UK with many types available in supermarkets. I enjoy Peanut Butter and have been eating it for 40 years!

[@jameschristophercirujano6650]

In the Philippines, Nutella is fairly recent, but peanut butter is peddled like streetfood here for as long as I can remember.

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

It's amazing to see how much culture and products were interchanged from the Americas to the rest of the world.

[@markberryhill2715]

Just giving us tomatoes, potatoes, and corn would be enough to make me love them. Thank you Jesus for the holy trinity of vegetables!!!

[@yotylinares1776]

@@markberryhill2715 ....and sweet potatoes and mos recently quinoa😏

[@markberryhill2715]

@@yotylinares1776 The list is endless on all the fruits and vegetables that came from the America's. I love them all!

[@TylerSolvestri]

Imagine forgetting about Cacao and Avocado

[@kenadair6044]

No mention that the reason for rotating crops with peanuts was because, as a legume, peanuts fix nitrogen into the soil. .. or did I just miss it?

[@celiabrickell2500]

You are correct! No mention of legumes fixing nitrogen.

[@robertthompson8032]

What's a peanut? May want someday eat one.What do they taste like? Chicken?

[@deborahdean8867]

@@robertthompson8032 it tastes like a nut . We call it a nut butter because it is ground till smooth. We also make almond butter and pecan butter.....any nut ground smooth. I know peanuts are legumes but they have a nutty taste, alot of oil, and a very delicious paste. Most nut butter pastes have alot of oil which makes them smooth, and peanut oil is used extensively in cooking

[@pichelen]

That's what I thought. Short mention of George Washington Carver, that's a very crazy, interesting history in itself 😊

[@Norm475]

@@pichelen In school I was taught that he invited peanut butter, in this documentary they said it was a Canadian. So much of what one learns in school is not true. I took a tour of Mt. Vernon and the guide said the Cherry tree and wooden teeth lore are both false.

[@purplealice]

Peanuts are very high in protein, which is probably why people fed their children peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. And in Africa, mothers can get a product called "PlumpPNut" as a food supplement for undernourished children - it's basically peanut butter with sugar added, and the woman puts a dab of it onto her fingers and her child licks it off. Because of the mix of amino acids in peanut protein, peanut products figured largely in the 1960s theories of "protein complementarity" - combining different plant proteins to provide all the essential amino acids. Peanuts and soy are a very nutritious combination. I adapted a recipe for chicken stir-fry with peanut sauce by replacing the chicken with tofu. Talk about nourishing! (It also has a lot of hot pepper in it.)

[@gaufrid1956]

I'm Aussie, but live in Mindanao Philippines with my Filipina wife. Yes, here peanuts are common "pulutan", snacks eaten while drinking alcohol. Filipinos love peanut butter too. Here in Mindanao, peanuts are grown by farmers as the climate suits good crops. I was interested when you mentioned the name first given to the peanut, "mani". That is still the name for peanuts in all Filipino languages, obviously brought here by the Spaniards from Central America when the Philippines was administered from "Nova Espana", Mexico. They are one of my favorite snacks too!

[@lifegamerpro4033]

Filipinas are children's of Rama Second wife

[@Mote.]

The way you said "the goober" so seriously made me chuckle

[@pedrosampaio7349]

Pindakaas is mentioned here as translating to 'peanut cheese' (it is also the modern word for peanut butter); that is how it's often interpreted by Dutch folks, however I do remember reading that the 'kaas' ("cheese") actually meant something like 'paste' or 'spread' in a local language of Suriname.

[@maryocecilyo3372]

Tu falas português?

[@pedrosampaio7349]

@@maryocecilyo3372 sim

[@andrewbrown6522]

Ask a Japanese person to say that for you..... 'peanut cheese' 😉

[@7bombarie]

In The Netherlands, butter may only refer to real butter, as opposed to margarine. Therefore, peanut butter cannot be marketed as 'pindaboter', but pindakaas is legally allowed. It's the same product as peanut butter.

[@ericdpeerik3928]

Butter was indeed a protected term. Dutch peanut butter isn't the same as American. Dutch peanut butter is more savoury and has spices in it, while American peanut butter is just very very sweet

[@alonsonatividad9620]

Nice video. In Mexico and other spanish speaking countries, peanuts are known as cacahuates; a nahuatl (aztec) word, which might indicate that peanuts were important enough as to get their own name, which, by the way, was tla-cacahuatl, meaning "earth cocoa/cacao"."

[@Elhastezy888]

It's ALWAYS been my favorite word for "peanuts" 😂

[@mollycarlson9715]

Thanks for that! It's splendid to hear the etymology. 👍

[@TaLeng2023]

That's interesting. In the Philippines peanuts are called "mani". "Cacachaute" instead refer to gliciridia (also called "madre del cacao" here).

[@markchinguz4401]

Interesting. The french call them cacahuète

[@RolloTonéBrownTown]

I love how long and awkwardly you held that silence after the oink. I thought the video froze. Very creepy

[@RADICALFLOAT_95]

I actually agree with you

[@dorkiesanman]

For a while I was looking for history of food videos on KZbin but never could find them until I found your channel a few months ago. These series of food history videos are exactly what I've been searching for and I hope to see more of them!

[@andrewbrown6522]

Same from a paleo perspective.

[@thisisbeyondajoke6748]

"The History Guy" has a few good food history episodes

[@nielgregory108]

Too bad you found some BAD information. Peanuts have been in North America for thousands of years.

[@Catlily5]

@@nielgregory108 This video said that peanuts were in Mexico before Columbus. Mexico is in North America.

[@planescaped]

@@nielgregory108 I think you should lay off the mouthwash... >__>

[@tuckersmoak6632]

I was an exchange student to Sweden from the US as a teenager. I still am struggling with recovery from pstd from lack of peanutbutter.

[@slcRN1971]

😆‼️

[@downbntout]

Hei, Sverige!

[@kenjifox4264]

Can’t find peanut butter in Sweden?

[@downbntout]

@@kenjifox4264 I did, also in Norge

[@kenjifox4264]

@@downbntout one day I’ll visit Sweden. Seems like a wonderful country.

[@creestee08]

in the philippines we also call peanuts mani. fascinating.

[@Leopoldo888]

Maní is the original name and that's how we still call it in Perú. (Mah nee with the accent in the last sylable).

[@carlosespinoza2453]

*Mani is the name of Peanut in Peru* In museums, we can see wonderful collar made out of gold representing shells of mani one next to another . Key words COLLAR MOCHICA MANI about 2,000 years old

[@EdwardOkinawa-wd2ip]

Mani also in the Philippines.

[@shable1436]

President jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer, and if you research him it's one of the most popular things about him. There's also still places that are famous that you can go eat or drink at that serve free peanuts to anyone, you can also in some places throw your shells on the floor, I think this is a old southern tradition in certain taverns back in the day

[@kiwitrainguy]

Jimmy Carter named his private jet "Peanut One".

[@dahawk8574]

The only Potus mentioned here is Thomas Jefferson (5:55). Strange that Carter gets no credit, when that was his thing.

[@Alizudo]

He just turned 99 this year

[@metafuel]

I've just started growing peanuts. This was a very informative video. Thank you. Subscribed.

[@d.c.8828]

The wait for this history video has been driving me nuts!

[@gerardjohnson2106]

Good short history lesson. Much appreciated. Thanks.

[@Zarkovision]

In the Netherlands peanut butter is also very popular, it's called there from the Suriname origin "pinda kaas", but today you can buy the kind more like the American and also the original pinda kaas. From the Netherlands it's now starting to get more popular in Germany, where you can buy now peanut butter in American and in Dutch style in any supermarket.

[@gregoryferraro7379]

I really enjoy your food history episodes!

[@aidanokeeffe7928]

That "Mr. Peanut goes to war" poster is the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while.

[@hylacinerea970]

lots of emergency food & medical food is still built around the peanut. the WFP distributes “plumpy”- a fortified peanut sauce. peanut is so nutritious that it is the first thing added to someone’s diet if they have weight loss / nutrition issues

[@counterflow5719]

No mention of boiled peanuts? As a trucker from California, I was pleasantly surprised to discover boiled peanuts in the south east u.s. They are fantastic. They are like potatoes or like beans. A great snack. I'm very surprised they are not popular throughout the rest of the country. Edit: They are every bit as good as edamame, but since they are associated with poor southerners and not the exotic Japanese culture, they are ignored. Just like the black music of the south had to be repackaged by the British in order to gain acceptance by Americans, we cant appreciate our own domestic culture until it is approved by a European country first.

[@angelaspielbusch1237]

I really enjoyed this video because i love peanuts and your content! Thank you so much for sharing 😀

[@tunnelsnakesrule7541]

In northern Mexico an essential snack food is a ‘Japanese Peanut’ the only difference is a coat of hardened batter.

[@hugh-johnfleming289]

Never cared for them but am very familiar...

[@xxxBradTxxx]

We have those in Arizona too. But I first tried them when I visited Puerto Peñasco, Son.

[@tunnelsnakesrule7541]

@@xxxBradTxxx Cool, are any different flavours or just salted? Where I live the main ones are spicy, Worcester sauce, and lime aside from salted.

[@xxxBradTxxx]

@@tunnelsnakesrule7541 The ones at Walmart in Phoenix are just salted. I prefer the Mexicans ones with the spice that I got at OXXO.

[@janetrocha3584]

They are popular in Brazil too.

[@verdemocambique]

In southern Mozambique we call them 'Timanga' or 'Mazumana'

[@scottslod]

9:55 a fun fact about Dutch word 'pindakaas' (peanut cheese) was that in that time Butter was a protected name, and only products high in milk fat may be called as such. so instead of peanut butter they went for another milk product. which was Cheese.

[@mecha1gold]

It is amazing how many popular foods around the world today came from the Spanish Empire in the Americas and their work distributing them all over the world.

[@roberttelarket4934]

Luis R.: But nothing scientific or artistic!!!

[@grantguy8933]

They also brought small pox and killed hundreds of millions.

[@mecha1gold]

@@roberttelarket4934 That is a very wrongful statement. The answer to your comment is a long one since it requires justification, but I will try to condence it. The Spanish empire was the fist to devise global circumnavigation techniques, in the Spanish Empire there where many physicists and scientists as well as artists, one of them even gave the bases for Galileo's works. Elements such as platinum where discovered by the spanish as well as many techniques to isolate this elements. Even textile sewing techiques came from indigenous America. The fact that many inventions and achievements of the time have been almost erased by history is because latter, after the Spanish empire collapsed the ones that took over where the enemies of the empire and they did their best to take all the spanish achievements down. In fact the independence of the American Spanish Empire was all done with this in mind. To destroy Spanish dominance. It would be like if today the Islamic state financed the disolution of the USA and then took over everything from the USA and after developing over it, they claimed "their inventios where not that important, we made the best ones, real ones". For the time the Empire of Spain had an amazing intelectual and artistic development the american part even had its own type of art and music and in the Italian Spanish States they had their own scientific and artisctic developments, or even in Spanish Netherlands or the Spanish Filipines being the "Chinese Spain". It was a fully multicultural empire where you did not have to be "spanish" to make something and get credit for it. You where Portuguese, Italian, Mestizo, Mulato, Vasque, Catalan, Castilian or even Dutch. But one could say that is one of the reasons why just saying "Spanish" does not bring too much to mind since the term was only recenty used after being loosly used after Roman times in the Iberan Peninsula. It was known as the Crown of Castile under the motto "Non sufficit orbis" and "Plus Ultra" wich all elude to the global significane of the Spanis Empire wich will always have its mark maybe not in history books but in facts like the fact what we people that still today use merucy to condence gold or that we eat things like Pizza or Chocolate or we like hearing some Italian baroque pieces or even American Baroque like the ones from Chiquitos Bolivia. So Yes, Spain did have such influence in sience and art as well.

[@maryocecilyo3372]

Tomate, chocolate, batata, etc...

[@markberryhill2715]

Tomato, potatoes, corn, chocolate, vanilla, most beans and peas, squash, tobacco(not so good), and the list goes on and on.

[@rebelusa6585]

To me, peanut and all edible nuts are delicious. New world gave us peanut, cashew, pineapple, potato, marigold flower, pumpkin, maze, and many other things... This world will be very different without those things.

[@Rizzd.Commerce]

and crazily plus unfortunately... more unhealthy )): like what the hecc

[@moocyfarus8549]

All squash not only pumpkin, they had more diversity and their corn than we could imagine today also tomatoes came from the America's,, it's actually the vegetable evidence that's pushing back the date of settlement and civilization and trade in the Americas Egypt hadn't even built its pyramids and over here we had an advanced Trade Network and thousands of subspecies of squash and corn going all the way up from North America to the tip of South America,, nothing new about this world,, I think the greatest crime is Italians running around calling Tomatoes traditional when they didn't even have them eight hundred years ago it's a tradition of the Americas

[@MsFrenulum1]

And where would Italian Cuisine be without Marinara Sauce and Pizza 🍕 Margarita ? ¿ La Tomatina festival in Buñol, España ? Asian Cuisine without Capsicum Peppers 🌶 ? Dutch and Swiss Chocolate 🍫 without Cacao ? Global hunger and malnutrition without the easily cultivated Sweet Potato 🍠 ?

[@edwarddodge7937]

Tomato, avocado, and how can we forget, chocolate.

[@pyellard3013]

Amazingly.. Also tomatoes & peppers.. Toms & chillies are so uniqitious in Mediterranean & Eastern food that one imagines they have been for thousands of years.. But, nope, only since after Colombus...How can one imagine Italian food without tomatoes?!!!! 🤯

[@anonlastbend7439]

That long uncomfortable pause after 6:15

[@guayaquilindependiente8763]

Many South American foods have peanut as a base in their food even to this day. Great video.

[@hindsight2022]

Had to pause for peanut butter and ritz crackers .... Lol

[@Mujangga]

Très bon vidéo Monsieur. Ici à Montréal, les freins du Métro étaient de bois et saturés d'huil d'arachide pour les rendre inimflammbles. La chaleur causée par la friction des pneus contre les freins produisait un arôme distinctif qui, depuis mon enfance, j'associe au Métro et à Montréal. Les nouveaux trains, parcontre ne s'en servent plus... Et en ce qui est pour la nomenclature, au Québec nous disons *Pinotte* au lieu d' *Arachide* ou *Cacaouette* e.g. du *beurre de pinotte* , *t'es ma belle p'tites pinotte!*

[@slcRN1971]

Very interesting, thanks 🙂.

[@spankynater4242]

Taco taco, burrito burrito

[@ryushogun9890]

I like it very much and as a foreigner I see peanut as a humble but also fancy thing from America. Praise your success.

[@marschlosser4540]

the perfect food, chocolate and roasted peanuts. A combination that was, I was taught, popular in Mexico by the time Spain invaded.

[@st.charlesstreet9876]

Loved and enjoyed the history presentation. Thank You!

[@k.m890]

when you are having a bad day at work then you take a break, and find a new fire of learning video drops. nice 👍

[@nickelliott1174]

Of course Peanuts changed everything, Charles Schultz was a visionary ahead of his time. The characters are......what? Ohhhhh....those peanuts. Nevermind. 😊

[@willmorales6016]

Please do a video about Puerto Rico, we had war, pirates a rich cultural heritage!

[@HarborLockRoad]

Then why did you all come here??? 😂

[@wasabista1613]

Modern peanut butter, a Canadian invention! One for the home team. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@paulmaxwell8851]

Let's license it! You know......we could collect a royalty for every jar of peanut butter made. I'm sure everyone would co-operate!

[@vic85667]

It’s native American and African Not Canadian

[@KevinG1999-2010wasraw]

I get soo hype for every food history video. I love food!! -Kevin

[@KevinG1999-2010wasraw]

Happy Easter!! -Kevin

[@Getorix]

Thanks for the info dude! It's crazy how many of the foods I love come from the Americas. Potatoes, tomatoes, peanuts, etc. Almost like my ancestors were never European to begin with lol

[@bvbxiong5791]

there really needs to be a "new world appreciation" day or "indigenous americans" day. potatoes, tomatoes and corn changed the world...they literally changed the world for the better.

[@jr3753]

Chili peppers, cacao, vanilla, sweet potatoes, pecans, cashews, avocados, squash, pumpkins etc

[@joesickler5888]

Chocolate and coke!

[@svt80221]

@@joesickler5888 i know potatoes and corn are like essential crops now...but imo, so is chocolate and vanilla! thank you new world.

[@kenjifox4264]

@@bvbxiong5791 there is an “indigenous” day but they are forcing it for the WRONG reasons. The woke crowd is trying to force everyone to see absolutely everything through the racial lie of “oppressor vs oppressed” perspective. Without asking, these woke people decided for everyone else that Christopher Columbus was an “oppressor” so he should not have a holiday. So they are trying to replace by force our holiday of “Columbus Day” for “Indigenous day.” I oppose that 100%. I’m from South America by the way.

[@brunosmith6925]

Beautiful, endearing and totally watchable little documentary. Excellent work with thorough research. Better than some of the "best" on mainstream media.

[@papwithanhatchet902]

I learned quite a lot from this video. Well done!

[@In_Our_Timeline]

Me: wondering if fire of learning will upload next Fire of learning: peanut lol

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

Ah, peanut butter my favorite sweet thing. Peanuts are just as useful as corn in both food and oil production. I love how peanuts are high in protein and goes great in smoothies!

[@cabri358]

Down here on Peru, Bolivia and Argentina, we still call em maní. I never could understand how all the wacky names this noble legume got everywhere else came to be. This video was pretty fun.

[@thenoobgameplays]

Tbh, you should write something involving the history of food, foods or even culinary history in general. I don't mean something like a cook book or to make it similar to a Max Miller Tasting History video, but their history jn general. It would be great.

[@purromemes7395]

IKR? He’s amazing at it

[@kimberlypatton9634]

Yes ! The history of the things we eat , the veg's , domesticated animals history etc is truly fascinating. I once saw a doc on the History Channel ( When it was about "History" topics!) about domestication process of wheat plants to be how we have today. Peanuts are so great!

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

A collaboration with Tasting History would be awesome.

[@thenoobgameplays]

@@kimberlypatton9634 do you remember the documentary name?

[@MrChristianDT]

The "Mr peanut goes to war" poster is kind of a hilariously dark origin story for the mascot.

[@johnbender5356]

As a kid, we loved to roast peanuts on Saturday night and watch creature feature

[@annag9873]

You could pick that back up with Svengoolie on METV. He does the old movie every Saturday night

[@johnbender5356]

@@annag9873 I know, I love cheesy b movies

[@dbmail545]

I'm in the deep Southern US. I grew up eating boiled peanuts and still love them. My favorite way to eat them although I have never made them.

[@johnbender5356]

@@dbmail545 yep I remember going from Nashville to Florida and it seemed that everywhere we stopped in Georgia sold boiled peanuts

[@potatoyes246]

3:00 in the Philippines, (once conquered by Spain) we also still call it mani

[@TheDrAkira]

In Argentina is very common to have Peanuts with Beer in the bar and pubs. We are soo used to have them together! Best when they toast the peanuts with their natural covert (sorry I don't know the word for the woody part of the peanut :P)

[@Johanneskoal]

Shells in American English:)

[@carlosvictor8940]

In Pernambuco, peanuts are also very popular, especially on the beaches, you can always see a vendor selling them.

[@joshyoung1281]

I love these videos. I can't get enough

[@Raiya_ru17]

I used to love peanut adobo, deep fried in oil with lots of garlic and chilis. You can’t avoid buying one when you can smell it cooking outside lol. I am not really a fan of peanut butter and bread but lately, I just started making my own peanut sauce after having that cravings for a hot pot sauce that I tasted. I’ve been prepping a lot of fresh spring rolls in rice wrapper and peanut butter sauce with lots of garlic is just so perfect. Now I have a 1kg tub of peanut butter here just to be able to make that sauce anytime I want.😂

[@ernesttorres4059]

Spaniards don't call tpeanuts "mani", they call them cacahautes like the Aztecs did. The brought peanuts to Spain from Mexico, not from Dominican Republic.

[@nishbrown]

I just came home from work and my girl had a box of Goobers sitting here on my desk. Delicious video.

[@CharDhue]

Anya will love this video

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

I LOVE food history! More videos on that topic would be awesome!

[@cynicalentity3313]

“They were considered food for the pigs…oink” Heard that as I was eating my peanuts out of my open hand Can’t say I enjoyed that part of the video

[@sergioacevedo2254]

You didn't enjoy it, you loved it.

[@MrShnazer]

It’s a noble act to be weak.

[@nobodynoone2500]

I did.

[@mpatrickthomas]

Ty.A very enjoyable video.Right to the point and a pleasant voice.Very enjoyable.

[@In_Our_Timeline]

Again a great video and a really interesting topic I mean I do love these videos about things that we eat on a daily basis and learning there history so can you please cover next cover some things related to the India subcontinent it will be great man

[@drinmaliqi9531]

Thx

[@alexanderrobertson5387]

Can someone tell me the name of the classical music piece at the beginning of the video?

[@sathaire8120]

Anya likes peanuts

[@rksingh9186]

Hats off to Native Americans.they gave is such a huge variety of improvement to our diet.

[@waifuzinnia6361]

This is Anyas favorite video

[@jaynorris3722]

I hope Peanut had earmuffs on during this. Don't want him going crazy in you. Thank you for the wonderful series.

[@alejandrofelix7603]

Mexicas called it Tlalcacahuatl, which derives in modern "cacahuate". Seems odd to me that De Las Casas would mention other word for it on his works.

[@coucoubrandy1079]

Wow ! Thanks! This is really useful 👌 and so interesting 👍

[@chazjohannsen]

Anya Forger is watching this video with intent and deep interest.

[@oldsarj]

When I was stationed in Europe, if we wanted peanut butter we had to go to the GI commissary. I was advised that Europeans think that the American delight in peanut butter is decidedly odd. Occasionally they will serve it on tiny crackers as a hors d'eurve, like caviar. One European woman who moved to the US was asked by her relatives when she finally decided she was an America. Her response? "When I found myself craving peanut butter."

[@bryantgomez7135]

11:31 This pleases the nut.

[@LittleKaori]

"peanut butter never took off in europe quite like the maericas' The Dutch would like a word with you good sir XD We literally have commercials stating you need to raise your kids on the stuff because it makes them grow big and strong, and a peanut butter sandwich is a household staple. Other then that, great video, loved how extensive the background is!

[@baneofbanes]

I mean tbf peanut butter does have a lot of nutrients in it. It’s given often given as food aid by the US for a reason.

[@florent1024]

Très intéressant, merci Quite interesting, thanks

[@sonikku956]

5:17 Peanuts took off in Africa because they grew similarly to the Bambara groundnut, a species of legume closely related to the cowpea/black eyed pea/yardlong bean. They too grow in the ground and they have a similar taste.

[@Bob_Adkins]

No mention of boiled peanuts, which are the tastiest kind? I'm flabbergasted!

[@fech]

Bob Adkins Boiled peanuts are not known in the west as far as I know. When they tried it, they were amazed how good bolied peanuts were.

[@dbmail545]

Lawsey, my favorite way to eat them. Love seeing the "boil P-nut" stands on the roadside.

[@Catlily5]

@@fech They eat them boiled in the mountains of Georgia (USA).

[@socialaccount0000]

You wouldn't need school if Fire of Learning actually uploaded often

[@RosyMiranto]

Now the question is... Where's the History if Jelly to complete the story?

[@abrahamclintona3596]

Because then they’d have to make one about bread

[@MrChristianDT]

That has to be a ridiculously old type of food, because it seems like pretty much everybody on earth already knew how to make jelly out of something.

[@pedrao420]

peanuts, potatoes, tomatoes. 3 basilar foods that are a fundamental part of the culinary history of europe only arrived over there 500 years ago. can you imagine italian or even the very old indian cousine without the tomato? can you imagine germany without the kartofel? all those 3 are from south america

[@alojzyrosenberg5769]

>all those 3 are from south america Peanuts aren't fundamental for Europe, not even important. Better pick from South America for Europe is corn, cocoa, cocaine.

[@baneofbanes]

@@alojzyrosenberg5769 sad times for Europe then

[@jamesrocket5616]

"Oink" -Fire of Learning, April 2022

[@MrTanno123]

Thank you for the video. Love to be learning something new everyday

[@carlosespinoza2453]

*Peanut ( Mani in Peru )* . . . 2 thousands years old ceramic Pottery made out of clay during the Pre-inca civilizacion ( before incas) has been found in the Moche ( AKA Mochica ) Culture. Key words for googling HUACO MOCHE MANI

[@STEMnomad]

I was a bit disappointed with the whitewashing of the history of the mani. Like South, Central and Carib Indigenous weren't clever enough to make peanut butter, brittle and peanut oil.🙄

[@lilburro3]

The true hero is whoever first combined chocolate and peanut butter. Such a great combination. The peanut, at least in the deep south of the US, was definitely regarded as hog food which ties it close to the tradition of eating black eyed peas on New Years day for good luck (which is a whole other quasi-political topic).

[@yellowdog762jb]

Southerner here, the story of blackeyed peas is humorous. And I love them! Peanuts, pecans, and persimmons as well. And muscadines!

[@auntiejen5376]

I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches myself. Perfect if you don't want a heavy meal or it's too hot to cook.

[@whatthefunction9140]

This makes me wish I could jump 500 years into the future to see what common place foods we have adopted

[@lindakay9552]

And come back to buy stock in it.

[@Tribuneoftheplebs]

CRISPRnut

[@Catlily5]

@@Tribuneoftheplebs CRISPRnut! That is perfect 😂

[@TakeTheRedPill_Now]

Thanks!

[@Fireoflearning]

Thank you for your support! I am terribly sorry I am only now just seeing this, KZbin didn't notify me of it!

[@TheZapan99]

Fun fact: Peanut butter is almost unknown as a snack in France, but the country has a very popular brand of Cheetos-like puffs named Curly that are exclusively peanut flavored.

[@harenterberge2632]

"Peanut butter never really took of in Europe ". The Netherlands: am I a joke to you?

[@pchuang6698]

“In China, they called them foreign beans”？ Never heard of that for all the years I have lived in China (more than 30 years). The proper Chinese name for peanut is "LUO HUA SHENG", meaning "born out of dropped flower", which depicts the way they grow.

[@Catlily5]

To be fair he said China called them that which is past tense. But it is confusing.