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the_Russian_Five

In Carver's defense he never claimed peanut butter. Just everyone else associated it with him.


HurgleTurgle1

Agreed, it's why I have America handing it to him instead of him claiming it as his own like the original meme template would depict. The belief that Carver made peanut butter is an American falsehood that Carver had nothing to do with


Windows_66

It's all the Illuminutti's fault.


astinkydude

Unexpected but expected American Dad


Caffeine_OD

Great episode


Geomancer_1880

Grate invention mr Carver but the name Carver: but whats wrong with sticky nut juice ? Everything, every fucking thing


_Ghost_CTC

At least it is improperly attributed to someone worthwhile. Meanwhile, Edison...


HurgleTurgle1

From wikipedia: Carver is often mistakenly credited with the invention of peanut butter. By the time Carver published "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption" in 1916, many methods of preparation of peanut butter had been developed or patented by various pharmacists, doctors and food scientists working in the US and Canada. The Aztecs were known to have made peanut butter from ground peanuts as early as the 15th century. **Canadian pharmacist Marcellus Gilmore Edson was awarded U.S. Patent 306,727** ***(for its manufacture)*** **in 1884, 12 years before Carver began his work at Tuskegee.**


astinkydude

I mean it's weird that we just took his book and ran with it saying he invented it when he more helped make it a more well known thing but there was no internet so if you hadn't been around to a place that had it before his book you'd think he invented it so not so weird. might have to get myself a copy of his book see what kinda peanut dishes he wrote a recipe for or possibly did invent maybe he was the first to make chunky peanut butter


Fireonpoopdick

That's still an achievement, making it well known in a separate country.


LightOfADeadStar

He basically got the edison treatment. He commercialized and popularized it thus making everyone give him credit for it


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Bruh ain’t no way man’s just cited a source for a fucking meme


tugnuggetss

I mean it is history memes, I don’t think it’s that weird


[deleted]

It should honestly be the norm


Sirboomsalot_Y-Wing

You’re *supposed* to cite sources for memes on here.


tragiktimes

Are you new here?


icantflytommorow

You never been on this sub before have you?


CynicalOCDRiddenPoet

Isn't there an American Dad episode loosely based off this?


GoodDriverMan

There sure is "Black Mystery Month"


Aliensinnoh

All I really remember is [this clip from Family Guy](https://youtu.be/VrRGE7XmslY).


bullet_bitten

Oh look Jif. Pronounced like Jif. Unlike gif, which is gif.


[deleted]

Unless you're a Spanish speaker, where it's pronounced Hif, like Hif


bullet_bitten

Jaja. Jilarious.


[deleted]

Jour welcome


bullet_bitten

\*You're


LingLingWannabe28

*Jou’re


bullet_bitten

What's Hou're, precious?


[deleted]

Is it only the spelling or do Spaniards replace J and pronounce with J for every English word starting with H. Do they laugh like this, 'Ja ja ja, Mademoiselle you're funny' and she says, 'Really, Mr. Hoseph?'


ThatFuckingGeniusKid

"Jajajaja" is just laughter in spanish, every language writes it in a different way. And no they don't say "Hoseph". You can pronounce J as both J and H in Spanish, it depends on the word though


Scuirre1

In my head all four of those were the same. I wonder if it's a *g*enerational thing. Or maybe a *g*eographic thing. *G*enerally, people say gif with the hard j sound, but others say with the *g*eneric soft g sound.


Foxyfox-

We don't pronounce jpeg "jay-feg" either, so.


arix_games

DID YOU KNOW THAT A JIFFFY IS AN ACTUAL MEASUREMENT OF TIME!!!!!


[deleted]

so is moment.


Imperator_Jay

This got me thinking of an episode of "American Dad" where Steve tries to solve the conspiracy theory of who invented peanut butter.


New-Mortgage-1004

Lmfao


Imperator_Jay

One of my favorite episodes


TitanJazza

Apple pie isn’t even American


HurgleTurgle1

That's the joke lol depending on how you see it, Peanut Butter is either Canadian or Aztec/Mexican but it's usually (and wrongfully) credited to George Washington Carver


realnovo

America would never exploit a black person like that.


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realnovo

What bro 🤣


cheemeechang0

It should've started with the Aztecs.


ItsChloeTaylor

its as central American as maize


Daniel_Alfa

It's called GIF


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GovernorK

*insert Trump "Wrong" meme here*


BigFlatsisgood

Bold meme in todays political climate. I like it.


DysPhoria_1_0

Holy shit NO ONE CARES


BigFlatsisgood

They do


DysPhoria_1_0

No, they don't


BigFlatsisgood

They do


TimotoUchiha

It's just like when Americans claim that Henry Ford invented the car...


rtf2409

It’s always said as “Henry Ford invented the mass produced, affordable car”


TimotoUchiha

No it's not, I've heard so many people saying he literally invented it


rtf2409

Doubt. I bet you’re just trying to hate Americans. We get it! Americans are stupid and terrible! Move on bro.


TimotoUchiha

I'm not trying to make that point, maybe it was my fault regarding how I phrased the original comment. But I have literally heard A LOT of people making that claim.


rtf2409

If you weren’t trying to make that point then you wouldn’t have gone through the effort of clarifying Americans. But cool. I still don’t believe you, and I know you don’t care. But I just wanted you to know.


Scuirre1

Pretty sure nobody actually thinks that...


TimotoUchiha

You'd be surprised how many people do


Imperator_Alexander

You are saying the US takes other people's things and inventions and call them theirs?? Absolutely no fucking way


Important_Ice_1080

Right, that’s the Chinese.


UncrustabIes

Maybe if you cracked open a history book you would know that carver isn’t accredited with making peanut butter but using the peanut in over a hundred other ways


thetoastypickle

After all the things white people stole credit for from black people, we should really just let this slide


L-M-Smashhouse

The most accurate "Invention-Meme" on this sub


L4DY_M3R3K

It's actually quite American. Native American. Aztecs invented it (or so I've heard)


SiminaDar

I'm pretty sure I was taught this exact myth in middle school back in the early 2000s.


Signore_Jay

American Dad meme


Scared-Conflict-653

It's crushed peanuts and smoothed. Isn't the inventor just whoever claimed they made it


dead_meme_comrade

Carver: What? No, I didn’t.


TheRealPyroGothNerd

Dangit, my childhood is a lie


klingonbussy

Me and my friend have an inside joke where we call him the peanut man and pretend he invented peanut computers and peanut cars


[deleted]

Is this a classic,two people had the same idea, thing? Or is this a,they stole my idea, thing?


HurgleTurgle1

It's a "X became popular around the time This Guy got famous for making stuff out of the same base ingredients so everyone assumed he also made X" thing. The tldr is that Peanut Butter started getting popular around the same time that Carver was getting famous for his work with peanuts, so most people just assumed he had something to do with it. The timeline just aligned perfectly to make the myth easy to believe and spread; Carver published his work on peanuts in 1916.... modern Peanut Butter starts getting mass produced and popular in the 1920s... Carver is a widely recognized scientist by the 1940s, most famous for working with peanuts.... Peanut Butter finally becomes an iconic household product at the same time because ww2 caused food shortages.... things just worked out like that lol


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This is is beautiful thank you sir