# 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:  [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/61 "2018-03-12T20:25:28Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Do they still sell RC in the U.S.? I don’t remember the last time I saw one, let alone the last time I drank one.
You can still find in the Northwest, but you really have to search for it. Heck you can still find Cherry RC if you look long enough.
Back to the OP, I agree with the posters above who know it as a line in a Barbara Mandrell song and nothing else.
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### Author:  [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/62 "2018-03-12T20:38:20Z")
> [@Kolga](#):
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> Fun 80s trivia: I believe I remember seeing a scene in “Dynasty” (don’t judge me you don’t know my life!) where Sammy Jo (Heather Locklear’s character) was having a conversation with someone and was shown dumping a bunch of peanuts into a Coke. It was clearly used to communicate quickly that she was an uneducated backwoods hick.
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> I am, however, open to the possibility that I hallucinated that scene, given that it was the 80s.
> [@80sQueen](#):
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> No sir you were not hallucinating on fabulous 80s drugs there was an episode of season 8 of Dynasty where Sammy Jo pops some peanuts on her bubbling bottle of Coca Cola and drinks it as she’s talking to her ex Steven Carrington. 👍
It’s rare to have product placement in shows like that, especially in the 80s. It was an unspecified cola. And she was by herself in that scene.
[http://www.therealinsta.com/post/1528039066161987572\_1983157267](http://www.therealinsta.com/post/1528039066161987572_1983157267)
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/63 "2018-03-12T20:38:56Z")
I can still sing this jingle from heart. Joey Heatherton, mmmmmmmmmmmmm! :o
My first summer at language (not band!) camp, we had a counselor who insisted RC Cola makes you sterile. :eek: Fortunately, I never drank enough of it to find out if this was true.
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### Author:  [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/64 "2018-03-12T21:43:35Z")
I saw someone doing this at my grandfather’s implement shop in central MN in the 1960’s.
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### Author:  [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/65 "2018-03-12T22:11:13Z")
As I understand it, watching the fizz was the main attraction. Not the flavor of Coke and peanuts.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/66 "2018-03-13T11:59:39Z")
I’ve enjoyed peanuts in Coke since childhood. I still indulge once every couple months.
The salt makes the Coke taste sweeter and I love peanuts. Bottles are preferred. Peanuts can be a hassle to get out of a canned Coke. They tend to stick inside the can. Have to slap the can against your hand to get them out.
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/67 "2018-03-13T13:20:25Z")
I grew up in Virginia and we did it all the time, usually in those really long and thin bottles from the 70s. It was fun to make it foam, but you also drank/ate the concoction.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/68 "2018-03-13T13:25:58Z")
> [@Kolga](#):
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> I thought it was a Southern thing, not just a Texas thing.
Yep. Georgia too.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/69 "2018-03-13T13:39:47Z")
> [@Folacin](#):
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> I saw someone doing this at my grandfather’s implement shop in central MN in the 1960’s.
“Pardon me, good sir, I wish to buy some implements…”
And yes, I used to put peanuts in Coke, but haven’t even thought about that in years.
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### Author:  [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/70 "2018-03-13T14:52:25Z")
> [@Archergal](#):
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> I don’t know if he ever did it in a can of Coke, but bottled Coke or RC Cola, sure.
Yes, the RC Cola was the sine qua non of this practice in rural Mississippi country stores in the 1950s. I saw it with mine own eyes.
I also remember the big jars of pickled pigs feet, pickled eggs, and large dills. Moon pies? No problem!
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### Author:  [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/71 "2018-03-13T21:26:47Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> I can still sing this jingle from heart. Joey Heatherton, mmmmmmmmmmmmm! :o
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> My first summer at language (not band!) camp, we had a counselor who insisted RC Cola makes you sterile. :eek: Fortunately, I never drank enough of it to find out if this was true.
I drank a lot of it in New York (they even sold it in Yankee Stadium). Ms. P got pregnant on our first tey.
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### Author:  [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/72 "2018-03-14T02:28:29Z")
Georgia. Did it all the time as a child. Haven’t even thought of it in decades until now. Probably would not do it again.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/73 "2018-03-14T02:59:32Z")
> [@P-man](#):
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> Ms. P got pregnant on our first tey.
Sounds interesting. Is that anything like a Venus Butterfly? :dubious: 😉
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### Author:  [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/74 "2018-03-14T03:22:09Z")
Never heard of this.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/75 "2018-03-14T14:16:30Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#):
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> Never heard of this.
Check out YouTube. 😉
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/76 "2018-03-14T19:20:49Z")
Just last week I saw a YT video about this, first I’d heard of it.
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Yes. It’s a Texas thing, right? Or is that peanuts in beer? Anyhow, I’ve heard of it.
According to the video in texas it’s Dr Pepper they put the peanuts in as a regional variation.
ANd on the coke one, it has to be the mexican “real sugar” in glass bottles coke.
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### Author:  [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/77 "2018-03-15T01:56:39Z")
Georgia. Born in 1951. Did it as a kid all the time. Loved it!
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/78 "2018-03-15T02:37:35Z")
Been around this my whole life. I never liked it much. Mine was BBQ lays and Grapette soda. Unless I got an Coke Icee.
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### Author:  [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/79 "2018-03-15T03:21:30Z")
My dad used to do it on road trips. He was raised in Arkansas and lived in Texas since his mid twenties. It made since to me as a way to eat and drink at the same time when he was driving.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-peanuts-in-your-coke-have-you-heard-of-such-a-practice/602652/80 "2018-03-15T10:48:56Z")
Reported misspelling of “cock” in thread title.
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