# Putting peanuts in your Coke. Have you heard of such a practice?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 11, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652 "2011-11-11T23:56:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Obvious)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/21 "2011-11-12T01:36:18Z")
My mom does it from time to time, and I used to. Though my mom, heathen that she is, uses Pepsi instead of Coke.
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### Author:  [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/22 "2011-11-12T01:41:53Z")
The South can’t claim it. We used to do it up North, in Mass., in the '50s
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### Author:  [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/23 "2011-11-12T01:44:38Z")
I do it all the time, and have done it for years. Delish.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/24 "2011-11-12T01:46:04Z")
Y’all ain’t from around these parts, are ya, boy?
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/25 "2011-11-12T01:49:19Z")
It was, my mother tells me, common in rural South Carolina ca. 1957.
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### Author:  [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/26 "2011-11-12T01:56:37Z")
My grandmother told me she had been putting peanuts in her Coke since she was a girl, and that conversation was in the late Sixties when she introduced me to the practice. This was in Arkansas.
When I moved to Oklahoma, most people looked at me funny when I put peanuts in a bottle frosty cold Coke - whenever I could find Coke in glass bottles. It just isn’t the same in a plastic bottle.
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### Author:  [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/27 "2011-11-12T02:19:47Z")
I’ve taught my two Canadian kids to do it, and now my wife does it as well.
Tradition! Tradition!
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/28 "2011-11-12T02:19:53Z")
I grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and putting peanuts in your Coke was unthinkable. You were supposed to put peanuts in your Dr. Pepper or RC Cola, but not your Coke. You’d have to drink some of the soda to make room, as others said, and then dump the peanuts into the bottle.
I’m not really crazy about peanuts, so I didn’t do this as often as many of my peers did, plus I was generally not given spending money other than for my birthday or Xmas. If I had money, it was because I’d actually earned it as a babysitter or other chores, and I didn’t like peanuts or pop so much that I’d spend my hard earned money on it. Candy, yes, sunflower seeds or cashews, yes. Peanuts? No.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/29 "2011-11-12T02:21:24Z")
My father did this all the time. He grew up in Mississippi. I never saw the appeal. But I love boiled peanuts. Yum.
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### Author:  [@shellofmyformerself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shellofmyformerself)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/30 "2011-11-12T02:33:32Z")
I learned it from my grandpa and I still do it today! I buy “glass bottle Cokes” at Publix just for this purpose. I’m from Georgia, not Texas, but everyone I knew growing up did it. As far as I know, I’m the only one I currently know who does it. Maybe they don’t do that here in Alabama? But the tradition will die with me as my daughter can’t stand it.
Also, you eat Moon Pies with your RC Cola, not peanuts!
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### Author:  [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/31 "2011-11-12T02:59:41Z")
Salted peanuts in Coca-Cola. Dr. Pepper? Ewwwww.
Moon Pies and R.C. cola.
Boiled peanuts are accompanied by sweet tea.
What is this Pepsi of which you speak?
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### Author:  [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/32 "2011-11-12T03:09:14Z")
My dad, a lifelong Kansan, does it with peanuts and (gag) Diet Pepsi. I have no idea where he picked it up.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/33 "2011-11-12T03:33:17Z")
Neither of the poll options quite apply.
Peanuts and soda are pretty common fare on airplanes. It’s pretty easy to get a peanut+coke experience in your mouth and discover that it’s a decent thing. So while I wasn’t aware that it’s caught on outside of the air industry, it doesn’t surprise me at all.
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/34 "2011-11-12T03:46:44Z")
Oh, peanuts in soda predates air travel for the unwashed masses.
And Moon Pies and RC Cola were a traditional combo, but when I was growing up, a lot of people would drink RC rather than any other brand of cola for any reason. I think, but I’m not sure, that RC was a penny cheaper than other sodas, back when a penny’s difference was actually a thing to consider, and so a lot of people got used to drinking RC.
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### Author:  [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/35 "2011-11-12T03:53:42Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> I’ve been doing it for 40 plus years.
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> Even now, about once a month I buy a package of Toms Salted Peanuts and put half the pack in my coke. I save the other half for another coke a few days later.
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> As a kid I ate the whole pack with a coke. 😉
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> I hate salted peanuts straight from the package. Too darn salty. Coke gets rid of the salt so I can enjoy the peanuts. Coke even tastes better with the salt. Not that I usually add salt to coke on purpose.
There you go. It was with Toms Peanuts. One trucker told me that was his meal.
Dump the peanuts in the Coke and keep driving. I understand that Toms peanuts are no longer available.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/36 "2011-11-12T04:05:56Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#):
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> Oh, peanuts in soda predates air travel for the unwashed masses.
Possibly true. Peanuts as a snack were probably, overall, more predominant through the nation in the days of yore; at the circus, at home, etc. These days I don’t think you see a pack of peanuts outside of the air.
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/37 "2011-11-12T04:11:26Z")
Mom said that peanuts and soda was a popular combination with certain people in the section of Philadelphia she was raised in.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/38 "2011-11-12T04:15:32Z")
I think Toms Peanuts are still around. I bought a pack of peanuts last week at my local Exxon. They have a rack of various Toms snacks.
Maybe they were Lays peanuts? not sure now.
> [@Doug\_Bowe](#):
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> There you go. It was with Toms Peanuts. One trucker told me that was his meal.
> Dump the peanuts in the Coke and keep driving. I understand that Toms peanuts are no longer available.
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/39 "2011-11-12T04:43:46Z")
They’re better in Dr. Pepper. The salt in the peanuts tones down the sweetness of the Dr. Pepper.
If you manage to make it to the bottom of the bottle, you’re left with unsalted, slightly sweet, soft peanuts.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/40 "2011-11-12T04:50:17Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#):
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> Oh, peanuts in soda predates air travel for the unwashed masses.
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> And Moon Pies and RC Cola were a traditional combo, but when I was growing up, a lot of people would drink RC rather than any other brand of cola for any reason. I think, but I’m not sure, that RC was a penny cheaper than other sodas, back when a penny’s difference was actually a thing to consider, and so a lot of people got used to drinking RC.
No, no. RC Cola is what you drink with Moon Pies.
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