Hampton Farms Peanut Butter Plant officially dedicated its factory on Friday morning. Four years and 10 months ago, the company began establishing itself in August 2013, when it announced plans to convert a former paper sheeting plant for the purpose of making peanut butter.
For Rick McGee, the perfect peanut butter and mayo sandwich starts with thin white bread, spread first with mayonnaise and then peanut butter, and topped with small pieces of banana. Then you “mash it together.”
“The peanut butter and banana a little bit overpower the mayonnaise, depending on how much mayonnaise you put on it,” he told HuffPost.
McGee’s grandfather started Hampton Farms peanut company in 1946 in northeastern North Carolina, near the Virginia border. McGee grew up eating peanuts raw, straight from the ground and processed into peanut butter, and he says peanut butter, mayonnaise and banana sandwiches were a staple in his family that started with his grandparents.
