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The idea of mashing peanuts together to make a peanut paste or butter was not unique to George Washington Carver. Peanut butter was known to the Inca of South America, and probably to even more ancient tribes before them. Carver popularized the use of peanuts with over 300 uses, but he did not in fact patent any of his ideas based on religious grounds.

A crude form of peanut butter was sold in the 19th Century, but would have no resemblance to the peanut butter we eat today. Plain mashed peanuts produces an oily, rough, and sticky paste which isn't easy to market. Key inventions which aided the process of producing peanut butter did more to "discover" peanut butter than anything else.

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