Samuel Sorensen Adams invented the snake peanut brittle can and the snake nut can, after pranking his wife by putting a cloth spring snake inside of a jar of jam.
The term "brittle" appears for the very first time in print
A woman in New England might have created peanut brittle by accidentally pouring baking soda into her taffy mix instead of cream of tartar.
It's theorized that peanut brittle made its way to the U.S. through Irish settlers coming to live in the New World.
