View Comments Let’s take a moment to highlight the awesomeness that is Canada, eh (30 Photos) » awesome-things-from-Canada-15 Author: Bob | July 2, 2012 | In: Awesome, Funny, Travel Peanut Butter. Probably one of the most important food innovations of all time. First patented by Canadian Marcellus Gilmore Edson in 1884. Tweet Thanks! Joe Fox I feel like inventing peanut butter is kind of like "inventing" gravity. Technically you defined it first but its always been around blog comments powered by Disqus