[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Boiled peanuts (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 1/8/2011 3:01:44 PM EDT
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WTF!
Taste like dirt. I think they're a joke Southerners like to play on Yankees, just like taking someone on a snipe hunt. 
I have pretty common tastes, but that one goes right over my head. |
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The first time I came across boiled peanuts was at Stone Mountain, Georgia. I thought the vendor selling them was saying "Get your bald peanuts here!" (with a heavy southern drawl). I had to ask him "What is a bald peanut?" He replied, "Why down heeere son, we baaahlls them in saaahlt waaahter."
They tasted like 
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I don't go out of my way to have 'em, but enjoy 'em when I have 'em.
Great boiled peanut story: I gave some to my nine year-old grandson. He looked at them, looked around, and said, "These look like my sack." Grandma and his mom were horrified...while me, his dad, and my other son busted up. 
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Shut your heathen yankee mouth! Boiled peanuts (done right, of course) are a gift from God Himself and, for the most part, only appreciated by His people (most of whom are already in the Deep South, anyway). 
Only in the South would they eat something that could be confused with diarrhea and then brag about it
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Quoted:
Quoted:
Shut your heathen yankee mouth! Boiled peanuts (done right, of course) are a gift from God Himself and, for the most part, only appreciated by His people (most of whom are already in the Deep South, anyway).
Only in the South would they eat something that could be confused with diarrhea and then brag about it I love boiled peanuts...spending a good portion of my time as a child in Texas might have had something to do with that though 
ETA: Oh...Canadian
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Quoted: Quoted: Shut your heathen yankee mouth! Boiled peanuts (done right, of course) are a gift from God Himself and, for the most part, only appreciated by His people (most of whom are already in the Deep South, anyway). Only in the South would they eat something that could be confused with diarrhea and then brag about it Hummus, anyone?  |
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Quoted:
Quoted:
Shut your heathen yankee mouth! Boiled peanuts (done right, of course) are a gift from God Himself and, for the most part, only appreciated by His people (most of whom are already in the Deep South, anyway).
Only in the South would they eat something that could be confused with diarrhea and then brag about it I believe shit on a shingle was invented in Yankee land. 
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| got some on the stove, right now, cooking them with crab boil fot the ''cajun flavor''. of course i still have a bushel in my freezer. no decent southener would not dare have a freezer without some jumbo boiling goobers in it. perfect for cold winter days, watching the playoffs. different strokes for different folks......... |