Shocking Discoveries

Doing some reading today, I came across a shocking discovery: George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. Of course, this news should be nearly insignificant to me, a girl with a lifelong deadly peanut allergy who has never even tasted peanuts, let alone peanut butter. However, I have been living all almost-19 years of my life believing that GWC was the inventor of such a profitable good, when, in fact, he was not. To his credit, he did reportedly discover hundreds of uses for not only the peanut, but also soybeans, other nuts, and sweet potatoes. Some of the most fascinating uses of such ingredients include: shaving cream, linoleum, mayo, and shoe polish. Guess there are some new things I will have to start avoiding unless I want to enter another kind of shocking discovery - anaphylactic shock.

Gee-Dubbs Carver may have not invented peanut butter, but he did discover many things I, as an allergy-prone individual, now know to avoid.