I heard a story once that when considering how to send aid in the form of food to Africa, peanut butter was considered an ideal candidate. Shelf stable without refrigeration, calorie and nutrient dense, easy to eat with any (or even no) utensil, doesn't mind being flown around or dropped from the air to places that roads don't go, and looking at GWCarver and our own culinary experiences, has a wide variety of uses and applications.

But so foreign that it would generally be ignored or wasted. So they switched to something else.