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Who ever told you God invented peanut butter? There are many claims about the origin of peanut butter. Africans ground peanuts into stews as early as the 14th century. The Chinese have crushed peanuts into creamy sauces for centuries. Satay sauced has been used for hundreds of years. Civil War soldiers dined on 'peanut porridge.' These uses, however, bore little resemblance to peanut butter as you know it today. In 1890, a St. Louis physician supposedly encouraged the owner of a food products company, George A. Bayle Jr., to process and package ground peanut paste as a nutritious protein substitute for people with poor teeth who couldn't chew meat. The physician apparently had experimented by grinding peanuts in his hand-cranked meat grinder. Bayle mechanized the process and began selling peanut butter out of barrels for about 6

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