What is a peanut?

[Dpimi]

sorry for got to put my in the above comment. It was a joke

[Squink]

@Dpimi

Goober Peas

Goodness, how delicious!

[Mathochist]

@Dpimi

No one mentioned that peanuts are not the RIGHT name. Goober Peas are the correct name for the so called “Peanuts.”

How is that the “right” name?

@O.E.D. on 'peanut'

orig. U.S. The fruit or pod of the leguminous plant Arachis hypogæa (subfamily Papilionoideæ), which becomes buried beneath the soil as it ripens

1802 W. IRVING Lett. Jonathan Oldstyle in Morning Chron. (N.Y.) 1 Dec. 2/5, I amused myself with eating pea-nuts.

@O.E.D. on 'goober'

The peanut, Arachis hypogæa.

1833 Louisville Publ. Advt. 7 Nov., A few bags Gouber Pea, or Ground Pea [for sale].

Looks like “peanut” has about thirty years’ precedence over “goober”.