# I just ate my very first circus peanut **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 30, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566 "2002-04-30T22:23:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/21 "2002-05-01T01:07:11Z")
Hey, if you don’t like them, send them to me. They’ll get good and hard in the mail, just as they should be, and when I get them I’ll be in diabetic coma inducing heaven. You people who say you don’t like Circus Peanuts are on crack. My crack IS Circus Peanuts. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/22 "2002-05-01T01:13:53Z")
Okay, **Lucki** needs to go to bed. He posted an insufferably long diatribe about… something, but never addressed the central question. Which is: Why shouldn’t Circus Peanut be proscribed as a Crime Aginst Humanity? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/23 "2002-05-01T01:33:54Z")
They aren’t really yummy, but they aren’t bad either. Not sure what all the fuss is about. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Earthworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/24 "2002-05-01T01:51:40Z")
Orange junk in your teeth, sugar in your bloodstream, and pure heaven in the shape of a peanut, all for only 99 cents at the gas station on the corner. God bless you, Speedway. -Dirty ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/25 "2002-05-01T02:17:54Z")
Oh god yuck. Just thinking about those things makes me want to spit. ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/26 "2002-05-01T02:53:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Airman Doors, USAF \* > \*\*My crack IS Circus Peanuts. \*\* That must make using the restroom a fascinating and festive experience … ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/27 "2002-05-01T03:01:07Z")
I’m going to have to get some of these and see if I like them. I’m pretty sure I had some when I was a kid and thought they were ok. I will probably like 'em; I like just about any marshmallow product. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*They aren’t really yummy, but they aren’t bad either. Not sure what all the fuss is about. \*\* Don’t they contain animal products (gelatin)? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/28 "2002-05-01T03:26:22Z")
Lucki, I apologize. I didn’t mean to add to the pile on, because I never knew there was one. I had noticed at one point that you’d begun authoring several recreational drug posts, but I generally didn’t read them beyond the OP or post where it came up. It’s not that I’m a prude, it’s just that this stuff is so far in my past, I have nothing to contribute so I generally veer off elsewhere when drugs come up. I had no idea you’d quit (or had been teased). It was just a flippant comment, and I didn’t realize how much context it really had when I said it. I’m sorry, my fault, not nice. Bad me. Good for you for quitting. And worse yet, I misspelled your name. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/29 "2002-05-01T03:45:36Z")
I think they’re great. That weird synthetic taste just keeps you coming back for more. I’ve been known to eat whole bags on occasion. But they don’t have them too frequently around here, sadly. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/30 "2002-05-01T05:10:53Z")
Cecil on [Circus Peanuts](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_222b.html) ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/31 "2002-05-01T15:31:08Z")
I just read Cecil’s take, and was struck by this: “Yes! Circus Peanuts! Who’s your daddy?!” **White Lightning** , you have trouble finding circus peanuts? I see them in about every grocery store around here! I can see it now…a take off on **Arwen’s** candy swap… “Circus Peanut Swap”. Whoda thunk? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/32 "2002-05-01T16:23:34Z")
“I seem to recall hearing that when she was a girl, she ate a whole bag of them once, and proceeded to get sick. A circus peanut never passed her lips ever again.” —Well, actually, it seems that they did, but in the opposite direction . . . ---
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/33 "2002-05-01T16:36:00Z")
Totally hatin’ the circus peanut. When we were kids, my brother and I would trade our little sister all her good halloween candy for our circus peanuts and (shudder!!) candy corn. Those two and the ever-dreaded “bull’s eye” caramel/gizz-in-the-center crap. Man, I’m ready to spew… ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/34 "2002-05-01T18:23:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dirty Earthworm \* > \*\*Orange junk in your teeth, sugar in your bloodstream, and pure heaven in the shape of a peanut, all for only 99 cents at the gas station on the corner. God bless you, Speedway. > > -Dirty \*\* Whoohoo! Kalamazoo Circus Peanut Dopefest, coming up! 😃 Haven’t had the things since I was a little tyke (loved 'em though). Looking back on it seems like the designers set out to make stale candy on purpose. Can’t be any worse than those black and orange-wrapped peanut butter candies that are universally loathed come Halloween… ---
**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/35 "2002-05-01T19:29:40Z")
I like 'em. What?! Back off, all of you! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/36 "2002-05-01T19:33:12Z")
Ummmm… wots a circus peanut? Are they those big marshmellowy-looking peanut-shaped things? ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/37 "2002-05-01T19:41:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*—Well, actually, it seems that they did, but in the opposite direction . . . \*\* Ah, indeed. **lieu** , you’re right on track. Except they are much more solid than a circus peanut. A marshmallow to the head wouldn’t faze you. A circus peanut to the noggin might make a noise & leave a mark! Curiously the bag set out yesterday that prompted all of this is gone. So if lots of people say they hate 'em, there’s a quiet minority that love 'em. (well, some of you aren’t so quiet, but you don’t seem to be as loud as the CP-haters…) ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/38 "2002-05-01T19:53:26Z")
See **scout** , that one innocent circus peanut you ate has about a 3 week gestation period, during which it grows to about 10 times its original size. The reason you were so thirsty after eating it is that circus peanuts, like Gremlins, need water to develop into the deadly bringers of evil they must ultimately become. At the end of the three weeks, the circus peanut will tunnel itself out through your stomach and begin its quest for world domination. Thanks so much. Somehow, that’s a lot more disgusting than I had planned. I’m hungry, anyone got a circus peanut? ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/39 "2002-05-01T20:54:04Z")
I remain a Circus Peanut virgin (I was raised to be a Lady[sup]TM[/sup]. Lips that touch Circus Peanuts shall never touch mine. No…take it away you cad! I shall not yield! No…ohh…ohhhhh…Some Enchanted Evening…😃 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566/40 "2002-05-01T23:59:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Cecil on Circus Peanuts Thank you, Jill. I was wondering how long this thread would go before there was any mention of Cecil. I swear, some of you people need to read more than just MPSIMS. An entire day and nary a mention of our benefactor and idol. Yeesh. The loss of focus here is disappointing. Very disappointing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ate-my-very-first-circus-peanut/106566.md?page=3)