Skippy peanut butter is a commercial brand of peanut butter made in the United States. Skippy is the world's best selling brand of peanut butter. 90 million jars of Skippy are sold annually. It was first sold on February 1, 1933. The website peanutbutter.com (http://www.peanutbutter.com/) points to Skippy.
Used in sandwiches (particularly the classic peanutbutter and jelly sandwich), candy (Reese's, for example), cookies and pastry, it is a high source of protein, and is popular with children.
The first peanutbutter was the ground paste that the indigenous Americans of Mexico used as the base for a number of their "moles" (pronounced "molays", from Nahuatl molli, meaning sauce).
Peanutbutter was made in Australia by Edward Halsey for Sanitarium Health Food Company on May 29, 1899 and was sold as early as June 16.