# How do you feel about boiled peanuts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104 "2003-05-28T20:28:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/1 "2003-05-28T20:28:59Z")
I just returned from a ten day trip to Florida and South Carolina. Had a great time, saw some beautiful scenery and architecture, ate a lot of good seafood, met some of my girlfriends family and tried boiled peanuts. We started seeing signs for them in Tennessee and all through Georgia and Florida there were places advertising them. I didn’t try them though, until we had dinner at Hyman’s Seafood Restaurant in Charleston SC (great place), where they were complimentary. They were not bad. Not great, but not bad. They had a different flavor and the texture was soft, as I expected. I couldn’t eat too many though. They were a little strong. I’m just curious what anybody else thinks about them. Love or hate. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/2 "2003-05-28T20:40:32Z")
Love, love, love boiled peanuts. My grandfather grew peanuts, and it was quite a treat to pull some up and plop em into the cast iron kettle with a ton of salt. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/3 "2003-05-28T20:49:22Z")
I believe you are refering to _Southern Caviar_. 🙂 No, boiled peanuts rock. Roasted ones are better while drinking, but boiled is good for football games and the like. Also, the people selling them on the side of the road look like they could use the money. My sister called them “bald” peanuts when she was a toddler, a cross between kid talk and a southern accent. It stuck. What else seemed out of the ordinary down here? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/4 "2003-05-28T21:01:37Z")
Just a guess: I don’t think he/she is directing this question to those of us in this part of the country. ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/5 "2003-05-28T21:04:55Z")
I grew up in Verbena, AL… it don’t get no southern-er than that… I can NOT tolerate slimy, smushy, nasty, roped-up, disgusting-ass boiled peanuts (correct pornunciation is “bald” btw). You asked. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/6 "2003-05-28T21:07:20Z")
**Earl Snake-Hips Tucker** , I don’t think this means that we can’t answer. It’s nice to hear that someone enjoyed a visit to SC! It’s really a neat state, all told. Now, I’m going to be brave and go out on a limb here, and admit that I can’t stand boiled peanuts. They’re slimy. They gross me out. I’m a bad Southerner. I know. I don’t eat fried chicken either. ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/7 "2003-05-28T21:10:45Z")
My, oh my, it is indeed boiled peanut season again. Hallelujah! We make our own most summers, but there’s a little stand right on the Florida-Georgia border on Thomasville road that sells the _best_ boiled peanuts I’ve ever tasted! Mmmm-mmm! Ever tried tupelo honey? wonderful! Fortunately, my yankee husband hates them, so I get the whole bag to myself. :😁: ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/8 "2003-05-28T21:13:26Z")
I enjoy them enough to eat through what Hyman’s provides. Best seafood place ever! What celebrity sat at your table? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/9 "2003-05-28T21:41:24Z")
Ewww - Boiled Peanuts are the boogers from Satan’s nose. Ick Ick Ick That being said, my New Mexican hubby loves them - eats them shells and all. I love him, but he is so weird. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/10 "2003-05-28T21:45:13Z")
Vile and Disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Boldface\_Type](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@Boldface\_Type](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boldface_Type)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/11 "2003-05-28T21:47:02Z")
As a recent import from the Land of the Teabag, to the Land of the Humungous Pickup Truck, I have to say that I like boiled peanuts. I also like fried okra, biscuits and gravy. I shall soon buy myself a truck the size of Norway, and say y’all a lot, y’all. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/12 "2003-05-28T21:48:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Searching For Truth \* > [BI’m a bad Southerner. I know. I don’t eat fried chicken either. \*\* :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/13 "2003-05-28T22:02:38Z")
I **love** boiled peanuts. Especially spicy boiled peanuts. Crud. Thinking about them makes me want some. I want some **now**. And I’m Yankee to the bone, so being southern, I think, has nothing to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/14 "2003-05-28T23:44:12Z")
Oh, I was talking to everybody, Yank and Reb alike. (I’m 1/8 rebel on my father’s mother’s side, okay?) Let’s see, at our table at Hyman’s the plaques were for Billy Joel and Sam (bagel) Lender. Nothing else seemed unusual to me, although I’m not used to seeing so many Palmettos. The baskets people weave and sell were quite nice too. We also visited St. Augustine. Also a very lovely city. I’d like to go back and spend more time in both places. Oh yeah, seeing dead armadillos along A1A was new for me. Good praline too. ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/15 "2003-05-29T00:06:45Z")
Mmm. Boiled Peanuts. 🙂 And my first sighting of boiled peanuts was in Hawai’i, not the South. I was very pleased to see that there were boiled peanuts present in other locals of the U.S. Oddly enough, they aren’t that common in the city I’m currently in. I know of **one** place I can get them, and I’ve never tried theirs so I don’t know how good they are. * * * \<\< Hit any user to continue. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![juji\_mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@juji\_mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/juji_mojo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/16 "2003-05-29T02:28:31Z")
Im a Canuck, spent some time in Southern Mississippi about 5 or six years ago. Was introduced to boiled peanuts. I thought they looked terrible and smelled worse. Grudgingly tried some to oblige people, and “be polite”. Wow. I loved them. they were so amazing. I never had any commercial type ones, just ones cooked up by my friend in his kitchen. I took some back home to Northern Onario with me. No one else liked them. That was okay, I didnt let them last long anyway. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/17 "2003-05-29T02:30:38Z")
Absolutely love boiled peanuts. Re. the armadillo, my South-Georgia-native grandmother used to tell the joke: Q: You know what armadillos are? A: Sure, they’re those flat animals that live in the road. ---
**Author:** ![juji\_mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@juji\_mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/juji_mojo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/18 "2003-05-29T02:37:26Z")
Im a Canuck, spent some time in Southern Mississippi about 5 or six years ago. Was introduced to boiled peanuts. I thought they looked terrible and smelled worse. Grudgingly tried some to oblige people, and “be polite”. Wow. I loved them. they were so amazing. I never had any commercial type ones, just ones cooked up by my friend in his kitchen. I took some back home to Northern Onario with me. No one else liked them. That was okay, I didnt let them last long anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/19 "2003-05-29T02:43:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Searching For Truth \* > \*\*They’re slimy. They gross me out. I’m a bad Southerner. I know. I don’t eat fried chicken either. \*\* Gotta agree with the assessment of boiled peanuts, but _gasp!_ _you don’t eat fried chicken!?!_ How can that be? :eek: Of course, the worst fried chicken I ever had was at some famous farmhouse restaurant in Atlanta. So, maybe your experience with it was similar to mine. ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104/20 "2003-05-29T03:09:56Z")
Waitaminute-- you mean boiled peanuts are actually _boiled peanuts_? I always thought boiled peanuts was some sort of euphemism. So I gather they’re raw peanuts that are shelled and then boiled? Are they like edamame? To think I spent all those summers in Oklahoma, the cusp of the south, and never knew they were for real. Next you’re gonna tell me snipe hunting is actually hunting for snipe! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-boiled-peanuts/178104.md?page=2)