# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mann\_Slaughter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@Mann\_Slaughter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mann_Slaughter)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/61 "2012-03-18T04:22:12Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I tried them once, and they were terrible. This. Tried them during a visit to SC in my teens. Ugh! > [@Skammer](#): > > 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. And this. I LOVE freshly roasted peanuts but don’t even like my peanuts to be slightly soft due to age, or humidity. > [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > 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. …Suck all the juice out??? WTH? Juice? In PEANUTS?? That’s just all kinds of wrong! I think I just threw up a little in my mouth! (Where’s that PUKE smilie when you need him?) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/62 "2012-03-19T07:09:49Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > 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 !!! Boiled peanuts are absolutely horrible, vile and disgusting. I sometimes see them in the can in stores and I always shudder at the thought of how much more vomit-inducing they would be out of a can. ---
**Author:** ![jacobwilson8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jacobwilson8/32/7299_2.png) [@jacobwilson8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacobwilson8)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/63 "2012-03-19T13:36:31Z")
I love boiled peanuts. I boil them with salt, they taste awesome. ---
**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 19, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/64 "2012-03-19T15:57:39Z")
> [@Doctor\_Who](#): > > Boiled peanuts… with a fork? :dubious: Hey now Doc, ease that eyebrow down a smidgen. When you go after a thick watery stew of peanuts in shells, and they’re soft and oogey and smell horrific, a fork is advisable. Trust me. Yeah, in the shells. What the hell, they need to be shelled when soft, warm, stinky and oogey? There’s a delicacy inside? Really? Sorry. You can keep them boiled, I adore them dry roasted and unsalted. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/65 "2012-03-19T16:56:05Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Sorry. You can keep them boiled, I adore them dry roasted and unsalted. UNsalted… UN Salted… as in NO SALT?!? You actually came back to a peanut thread trying to redeem yourself from admitting you ate boiled peanuts with a fork and than said you enjoy roasted peanuts WITHOUT salt?!? Doc… feel free to get that eyebrow up just as high as it can possibly go. 🙂 ---
**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 20, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/66 "2012-03-20T11:55:28Z")
Yeah, I’m not sure what you’re describing \*\*Cartooniverse. \*\* The boiled peanuts I’m used to would never be eaten with a fork. I’m sorry you had an unpleasant experience with them. I really do need to order some online and get to boiling. My craving can not be satisfied with anything else. Maybe I’ll offer them at our deli and start a new craze in California. ---
**Author:** ![Woeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Woeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Woeg)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/67 "2012-03-20T12:43:50Z")
When I transplanted to the Deep South (GA) from Colorado, I had my first experience with boiled peanuts. I had no idea what to expect, but it wasn’t the weird, mushy, briny, soggy thing I put in my mouth. I almost gagged, spit it out, and chalked it up as one of those weird ass things southerners decide they have to eat as a dare. Later that day, a Georgia native I’d befriended laughed at me, and guessed correctly I’d tried to eat the shell, which I had, because hey, it was part of the slimy soggy mess. I still swore them off - there was no way I wanted any part of them. Then, oddly, about a month and a half later, in the dead of summer after a long hot day working outside and sweating like a madman, I got a strong, almost undeniable urge to try them again. The craving was intense, and crazy! I broke down and got some from a road side vendor, the entire time wondering what the hell I thought I was doing. I tentatively took one, sucked on it for a bit. Mmmm, briny goodness. I cracked it open, and sucked out the insides…which, knowing now what to expect, were alot like the texture of beans. Mmmmm salty peanut goodness. And damned if I wasn’t hooked from that point forward. They really must put crack in them or something. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/68 "2012-03-20T16:00:29Z")
Love 'em. Best when the peanuts aren’t fully ripe but I’ll take them however I can get them. ---
**Author:** ![Anduril](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Anduril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduril)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811/69 "2012-03-20T21:52:48Z")
Love them. So long as you don’t go crazy with the salt, it tastes naturally sweet and delicious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boiled-peanuts-i-love-them-how-about-you/615811.md?page=3)