How do you get butter out of peanut butter?? I get the why its called peanut butter and the fact it is made?!
Answers: out of peanuts makes the first name understandable...but how does it get it second name???
perhaps the texture.. or it was just a name to give it so people attach it with something good ( I think we all know its not butter and has nothing to do with butter)
they do have things in common.. you can spread it.. there both tasty (IMO) you can get both in a store and you can put both on crackers/bread
Call it peanut spread or peanut mush if it makes you feel better. Peanut butter is peanut butter.
omg butter is made from milk ever heard the term churnin butter? butter is a dairy product!!!
Peanut butter does not have any butter in it. I suspect it's called peanut 'butter' because it is spreadable, you put it on bread, etc. Not because it is actual butter.
Well Peanut Paste just doesn't sound as good.
I think it has something to do with "nut" rhyming with "but"-ter.
It rolls off the tongue easier.
Often in the poor South where peanuts grow, they have cows too. They use the cows' milk to make butter, of course.
Jellies, jams, and preserves are for fruit, so you can't use those names. Maybe they used butter churns to start processing peanuts with and the name peanut "butter" came from doing that. Here's a little skit how it may have started:
"What you got in the churn, Billy Bob?"
"Uh peanuts."
"That there churn ain't fer peanuts you rascal! It's fer butter."
"Oh yeah, it is now!" Billy Bob flashes cash he earned from selling squashed peanut paste, "It's for peanut butter!"
because of it's consistency and that you spread it on bread like butter.
Apple butter, apricot butter, and other fruit butters have their name for the same reason. I have yet to see a apple butter sold in the store that actually contains butter.
butter is an 80% emolsion of water and oil... as well as peanuts and peanut oil... therefore you can call anything that is churned into a spread....butter
i think it's because of the texture