# Boiled Peanuts. I love them. How about you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811 "2012-03-15T00:52:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/1 "2012-03-15T00:52:08Z")
I love boiled peanuts. They were a treat for me growing up in Florida. It’s difficult to find raw peanuts here in California so I don’t get to have them often. I find that people either love them or hate them. Of course there are some that refuse to even try them. So how about you? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/2 "2012-03-15T00:56:48Z")
I’ve only had them once, when I visited Jimmy Carter’s boyhood home in Plains, Georgia, last year. I liked them – but I think I still prefer roasted peanuts. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/3 "2012-03-15T01:03:51Z")
North Carolina resident since 1967 Freshman year in college here. For about 20 years the thought of boiled peanuts was so revolting to me that I could hardly stand to watch someone _else_ eat them. Then, natch, I actually tried them, and loved them. They are delicious! On the other hand I tried NC-style pork Bar-B-Que right away, and hated it right away and forever more. That stuff really sucks. Now, I’ve also spent some time in Texas, and although Texas politicians are real assholes Texas beef Bar-B-Que is as good a food as there has ever been. ---
**Author:** ![Jennmonkye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/278dde/32.png) [@Jennmonkye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennmonkye)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/4 "2012-03-15T01:05:38Z")
Love them! They don’t sell them here in Nebraska so you have to have them shipped in. I had them as the featured exotic food for an event I did last year and I still have about fifty pounds of them in my office at work. Weird! ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/5 "2012-03-15T01:09:42Z")
I don’t eat legumes anymore, but I love boiled peanuts. I only get them when I’m down in SC, but I still crave the hell out of them from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/6 "2012-03-15T01:18:10Z")
They’re a lot like little unshelled shrimp- quite a bit of work for what you get to eat, but they’re good. ---
**Author:** ![Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phedre_no_Delaunay)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/7 "2012-03-15T01:22:21Z")
Love 'em! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/8 "2012-03-15T01:26:24Z")
What are you talking aboot? Never heard of them, eh? Seriously, I never have heard of them. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/9 "2012-03-15T01:44:49Z")
I tried them once, and they were terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/10 "2012-03-15T02:22:11Z")
I love them! They are hard to find though. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/11 "2012-03-15T02:51:54Z")
Well now I want some boiled peanuts and it’s almost midnight, goddamn you. (Note: when I say “boiled peanuts”, but not when I say, let’s say, “boiled wool”, it’s “bolled”.) ETA - MY GOD I WANT THEM SO BAD. ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/12 "2012-03-15T02:58:13Z")
boiled peanuts are common to see in the morning at stores in hawaii … ---
**Author:** ![charmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@charmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/charmstr)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/13 "2012-03-15T04:37:32Z")
I haven’t had boiled peanuts in nearly 50 years. Back then we would visit my grandparents in Moultrie, Georgia. The adults would sometimes buy us kids each a brown paper lunch bag of boiled peanuts, usually from a guy selling them on the side of a road. (I think they were a nickel or maybe 10 cents a bag, I don’t remember, because I never paid.) I loved them. I would pop a whole peanut, shell and all into my mouth and suck on it until it wasn’t salty anymore, then bite down just enough to pop the peanuts out. I’d eat the nuts and spit out the shell. Delicious. I have no idea if I would still like them now though. There were a lot of things I ate when I was a kid that I won’t touch these days. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/14 "2012-03-15T05:11:42Z")
Boiled green peanuts in a big ol’ styrofoam cup are the PERFECT food for watching any sports activity, either at home or in person. DDAMN but I miss me some boiled peanuts. We can’t get them at all here in Las Vegas, but in Tallahassee, FL it seemed like there was a vendor at every freaking major intersection, plus a couple who were just at random spots on the side of the road. ETA: > [@Zsofia](#): > > ETA - MY GOD I WANT THEM SO BAD. OMFG ME TOO! ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/15 "2012-03-15T10:59:31Z")
I have an aunt in Florida and she has sent me the raw peanuts on occasion, so I have been able to get my fix. But she is getting too old to do it for me any more. It looks like you can order them on line these days. It’s raining and has been for days. A big bowl of those salty delicious nuts would be so good right now. ---
**Author:** ![timid1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@timid1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timid1)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/16 "2012-03-15T13:00:30Z")
Absolutely love them. Ate them as a kid in Florida whenever possible. Moved to MA in 1976 and did not have them until 7 years ago when I finally went back to FLA. They are still sold by the roadside there. Although now they have spicy ones that I do not care for. Masks the boiled peanutty flavor. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/17 "2012-03-15T13:02:16Z")
I love them so much that I have made them. I had to buy a huge amount of raw peanuts. I used around 5 pounds, the remaining 45 pounds went to the bluejays and squirrels. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/18 "2012-03-15T13:45:08Z")
I tried them for the first time last summer and… ewww. Just ewww. They were completely revolting. I don’t want my peanuts to be _mushy_. I could barely swallow them. This whole thread is making me a bit queasy. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/19 "2012-03-15T13:53:40Z")
I will eat them until I get sick. At least, I assume I would. I can’t get enough to get sick on, what with having to fight the rest of the family for my fair share. My husband (transplanted Yankee) has never even tried them. He can’t wrap his mind around the idea of mushy peanuts. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/20 "2012-03-15T14:04:38Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > What are you talking aboot? > Never heard of them, eh? > > Seriously, I never have heard of them. They’re young peanuts that are boiled, as opposed to mature peanuts that are roasted. They’re a bit more rubbery than crunchy. You can get them (unshelled) from Chinese grocery stores (at least in Toronto), but my wife sometimes boils her own. I don’t have a strong opinion about them. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811.md?page=2)