# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/41 "2012-03-16T04:49:03Z")
I love them! I live in Florida so that helps. But I didn’t ever try them until I was an adult because I thought they sounded disgusting (transplanted Northerner). Now I can’t get enough and luckily the convenience store a couple blocks away started selling crack … I mean boiled peanuts. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/42 "2012-03-16T05:17:06Z")
Love 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/43 "2012-03-16T05:40:26Z")
I grew up in the land of boiled peanuts, farmers on both sides of the family back as many generations as I can find, and a common social event on the farm\* was a peanut boil. Sadly, I just never developed a taste for boiled peanuts. I’m that weird person who is indifferent to the glories… I can eat a handful or two to be polite, but I don’t go out of my way for them. It’s a good thing that I strongly resemble both of my parents, or they’d have taken me back to the hospital to try to figure out whose kid they brought home! \*I’m wildly fond of most of the other really traditional Southern food events that were part of my childhood: late autumn syrup boils (cane syrup - like molasses if you’re not familiar) and the candy pull afterwards, Low Country boils, homemade peach ice cream or cutting watermelons on the back porch on a summer afternoon, fish fries any time of year, even hog butchering time (minus the actual killing. But making the sausages and curing the ham and bacon, rendering lard and making cracklings, etc., was pretty fun. The process of making hogs head cheese is pretty disturbing at first, too.) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/44 "2012-03-16T06:47:46Z")
This one time, I ate boiled peanuts. Like, a _whole lot_ of 'em, right? And I like to got sick, you know what I mean? ---
**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/45 "2012-03-16T15:32:32Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > \*I’m wildly fond of most of the other really traditional Southern food events that were part of my childhood: late autumn syrup boils (cane syrup - like molasses if you’re not familiar) and the candy pull afterwards, Low Country boils, homemade peach ice cream or cutting watermelons on the back porch on a summer afternoon, fish fries any time of year, even hog butchering time (minus the actual killing. But making the sausages and curing the ham and bacon, rendering lard and making cracklings, etc., was pretty fun. The process of making hogs head cheese is pretty disturbing at first, too.) You are really fortunate to have experienced these things! These little snippets of Americana will very likely disappear completely in a few generations, and that is very sad. Being a Nawthuna, we used to do maple syrup boils. Scorched/burned it every year. Still, a fond memory. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/46 "2012-03-16T16:02:10Z")
Love them! Haven’t been able to indulge, for years and years, but oh yeah… a nice little bag full of slimy, saltier than salt, boiled green peanuts. They almost seem to squirm in your tummy afterwards. Heavenly. ---
**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 16, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/47 "2012-03-16T17:24:04Z")
The only thing missing from my NCAA tournament watching experience is boiled peanuts. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/48 "2012-03-16T18:37:13Z")
I do too-Lucy’s scream when she hits the water is especially enjoyable. ---
**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/49 "2012-03-16T18:52:40Z")
Good Grief! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/50 "2012-03-16T23:11:19Z")
Bought some about 6 weeks ago. A gas station with a mini mart on the North Carolina/ Tennessee border. Pretty far out there. They had a small soup cooker on the sideboard with a hand written sign. Plastic take-out containers. A ladle. seemed very authentic so I figured now is the time. I almost threw up in the car. I’d tasted a few with a fork. They were beyond the pale, and this is from the guy who enjoyed rotting soy beans in Japan. ( The traditional Japanese breakfast food. Smells like rotting flesh, but has an oddly pleasing nutty flavor ! ) I got out of the car. I walked back in. Told the lady I’d tasted a mouthful with the fork and had not taken any more. I said I’d feel bad throwing them out, in case she wanted some. She did two things that surprised me. She gave me my money back, with grace. She also tucked into the container with a fork. Well fiddle dee dee. Different strokes. Me, I adore peanuts. But shall never ever ever eat those things again. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/51 "2012-03-16T23:27:51Z")
never had them, but would try them given the opportunity. have had deep-fried peanuts, though. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/52 "2012-03-16T23:33:40Z")
love 'em, Love 'Em, LOVE 'EM !!! I am from the Chicago area, but my first spouse was from Mobile, Alabama, and he introduced me to boiled peanuts and Southern / Soul Food. When Jimmy Carter was elected, what did I do to celebrate? I BOILED raw PEANUTS from scratch 😃 I am a blues fanatic, and Carl Jones of Colt/CJ and Firma labels (I think) put out a 45 back then, on which he did the vocal: “It’s Carter, The Peanut Man” !! ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/53 "2012-03-16T23:36:13Z")
And I used to buy BOILED PEANUTS IN A CAN (:eek:😕), when I lived in Anchorage, Alaska … I’ll have to check the local supermarket here !!! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/54 "2012-03-17T01:42:05Z")
Thanks to this thread, I had to go buy some more crack… boiled peanuts tonight. They were my dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/55 "2012-03-17T02:33:34Z")
I love peanuts and I love salty things, so when I saw boiled peanuts for sale at a roadside stand in North Carolina I thought I’d give them a shot. They were absolutely disgusting! I tried two (just in case the first one was rotten or something) and threw the rest out in the yard for the birds and squirrels. ---
**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 17, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/56 "2012-03-17T10:20:13Z")
You didn’t eat the shell, did you? That’s what my husbands mom did, so she hated them. She didn’t like me though, so she wanted to hate them. 🙂 Don’t eat the shell. Just suck all the juice out. Then you eat the nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/57 "2012-03-17T12:10:32Z")
No, just the horrible, mushy insides. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/58 "2012-03-17T14:06:52Z")
I love them! They are my favorite part of summer road trips. My dad loves them too and he used to get them for me when we went to the lake. I had an Ag prof in college who tried to convince us to stop eating boiled peanuts due to the risk of aflatoxin. His argument was that you don’t see them before you put them in your mouth, so you don’t know if they are rotten until it’s too late. Interesting argument, but I’ve never had that problem. Still eat 'em and think of Dr. Wyatt when I do! ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/59 "2012-03-18T03:39:56Z")
They are the Bane of my keyboard as I read the web. Damn squirters. :mad: Along with Chicken Wings…never enough paper towels. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/60 "2012-03-18T03:47:21Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Bought some about 6 weeks ago. A gas station with a mini mart on the North Carolina/ Tennessee border. Pretty far out there. They had a small soup cooker on the sideboard with a hand written sign. Plastic take-out containers. A ladle. seemed very authentic so I figured now is the time. > > I almost threw up in the car. I’d tasted a few with a fork. They were beyond the pale, and this is from the guy who enjoyed rotting soy beans in Japan. ( The traditional Japanese breakfast food. Smells like rotting flesh, but has an oddly pleasing nutty flavor ! ) > > I got out of the car. I walked back in. Told the lady I’d tasted a mouthful with the fork and had not taken any more. I said I’d feel bad throwing them out, in case she wanted some. > > She did two things that surprised me. She gave me my money back, with grace. She also tucked into the container with a fork. > > Well fiddle dee dee. Different strokes. Me, I adore peanuts. But shall never ever ever eat those things again. Boiled peanuts… with a fork? :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811.md?page=4)