Story of a Peanut Butter Sandwich (1971)

[Music] the [Music] [Music] everybody everybody may I have your attention please food time you can decide what everybody wants so we bring out the ingrediences and you can make your own sandwiches [Music] also there's going to be a prize given to the one of course it has to agree with your stomach in other words it means that you can't win the prize unless you eat your sandwich you got to make a big sandwi or a little sandwich do you know where that jelly comes from no of course but you have to buy it so I don't know from where it comes from excuse me do you know where that cheese comes from no where do you buy it from stor where the pickles come from that you have that sandwich I have no idea what about orange juice Florida you know where the balone comes from from Hungaria probably some animal you know where peanut butter comes from the supermarket Crossroads to your stomach foods from all over the world stomp there on the way to your [Music] fork some come directly from the exactly the way they were grown but others go first to the factory to be cooked or frozen or canned or completely changed processed foods Foods complicated to create like peanut butter now there's a story children in America eat enough peanut butter every year to coat the Empire State building with a layer 3 ft thick yet 100 years ago there was no such thing as peanut butter but one man one solitary physician working by himself in his lonely laboratory helped change the eating habits of a nation in the doctor's day the only place to prepare Foods was the kitchen stove there were no factories to turn out corn flakes TV dinners or even a can of soup [Music] unfortunately little is known of the good doctor's research even his name has been lost but not his Discovery the doctor knew that peanuts were rich in proteins but how could he prepare them for his patients so they would be easier to eat at last the inspiration came roasting the peanuts before grinding them improved their [Music] flavor finally the doctor's goal was in sight he could eat his own creation without choking on it [Music] the results were Beyond his wildest expectations he called it peanut butter why do you like peanut butter CU cuz I like peanut why does it taste good cuz it got peanuts in it do you know how peanuts grow yes I think it's in Vine I think in cheese they don't grow peanuts don't grow how do peanuts come to exist the peanut is not really a nut but a bean but a very extraordinary Bean no other grows in quite the same way the seed Sprouts into a plant with roots and leaves then one day the plant flowers and happily the flowers wither almost the same day they bloom but then something truly remarkable occurs the vine re-enters the earth and the peanut begins to grow when the penuts are right they're dug up and left to dry a few days in the sun then a combine collects them and separates them from the vines Texas and Oklahoma grow them North Carolina and Virginia too but the farmers of Alabama Georgia and Florida specialize in them Japan grows them and countries in Africa and South America but only in the United States do most of the peanuts end up as peanut butter nobody except Americans seem to like it much each year manufacturers produce enough peanut butter to build a mountain a mile [Music] high 100 years ago most of the peanuts in the United States were eaten by pigs the discovery of peanut butter elevated the peanut pig trough to the roof of the mouth do you like peanuts better than peanut butter no why do you like peanut butter better than Peanut the peanut butter gummy Excuse me yes do you like peanut butter yes what kind do you like like better regular crunchy crunchy why because I like to hear my thing from dawn to dusk during harvest the farmers bring their peanuts to the buyers the sample is taken from each truck to judge the size and quality of the farmers's crop the buyer offers the farmer a price based on the sample 11 cents a pound on the average it takes about 2 lb or 22 cents of unshelled peanuts to make a pound of peanut butter but before the buyer sends the peanuts to the processing plant he shells them and loads them into sacks from the shelling plant to the the Grinders but first the peanuts are cleaned in the electric vibrator the vibrator shakes out any shell particles that still cling to the Nets next the ovens as the doctor discovered roasting is an indispensable step after The Roaster come the blanches freshes inside the blanches remove the skins and hearts of the nuts and clean them of dust and mold the skins and hearts are slightly bitter so blanch nuts produce a milder flavored peanut butter and they chop up the peanut finally the Grinders sugar and maybe some salt and a couple other ingredients and mash them up a pinch of salt a bit of sweetness they mix it probably in a mix MK I just don't like the [Music] taste [Music] tooy depending upon the size of Jar you buy will cost 50 to7 cents a pound it taste good well sort of sweet taste peanut butter costs about three times as much as the same amount of raw peanuts but you can't spread raw peanuts on bread manufacturers continue to experiment to find more ways to eat peanuts and more ways to manufacture new kinds of food today complicated process foods made in the factory are as much a part of our diet as simple foods from the farm what do you have in that sandwich well I've got pickles and salami mustard and bread peanut butter banana PE Jam baloney strawberry jam apples and peanut butter mustard and I have baloney and I have caramel do all those things go together are you going to eat that sandwich no attention everybody we're now going to announce the two winners the priz will be for the most additional and the biggest we we have three judges including me and you're going to line up in front of us and we'll announce the winner in a minute she the light but and jam people who came up we have two people the first one is for the most um for the biggest and Gabby for the most like for the most original one now those people want to can take a bite of it to show us how good the sandwi is is it [Music] good excuse me do you know where that popcorn comes from hey who invited you to this party [Music] anyway the search for the perfect peanut butter still goes on excuse me maybe you could help me with market research and we're giving away free samples today we just want you to try something and give your opinion on it just take a taste and see what you think about [Music] it how's that out of sight out of sight far out how about the sugar sugar right on right on how about the flavor the nuts nuts nutty yeah definitely nutty hey you giving any free bread away today [Music] w [Music]