Salted peanuts
Wisconsin Fishing
Jul 23, 2022 15:58:28 #
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Both peanuts and pecans can get so old they are rancid. I can usually tell whether pecans or peanuts are this year's crop, or before. I must confess I am a 'nut' for roasted peanuts, and have been since I was three years old when I could walk up to the store counter and buy them with my own money.
In those days, there were frequently a display, not unlike a punch board, where a display of small cylinders of peanuts might have a coin in the box, too. You were always encouraged to buy them because you might actually get a quarter along with the peanuts.
Even at my tender age of 3 or 4 I suspected the clerk would have gone and weighed the boxes to find any quarters, dimes, or nickels first. I didn't care, all I wanted were the peanuts! I also like the what I always called "Red Skins" which were larger nuts. In the 1960s and 1970's the only place I ever saw them was in Mexico. Just Sayin...RJS
In those days, there were frequently a display, not unlike a punch board, where a display of small cylinders of peanuts might have a coin in the box, too. You were always encouraged to buy them because you might actually get a quarter along with the peanuts.
Even at my tender age of 3 or 4 I suspected the clerk would have gone and weighed the boxes to find any quarters, dimes, or nickels first. I didn't care, all I wanted were the peanuts! I also like the what I always called "Red Skins" which were larger nuts. In the 1960s and 1970's the only place I ever saw them was in Mexico. Just Sayin...RJS
Jul 23, 2022 19:16:43 #
DC
Loc: Washington state
Help wrote:
I love salted peanuts, especially the oily ones in the nickel bag
nickel bag???? that can't be what they cost since I doubt you can get one nut for a Nickel so must mean something else right? but I to like salted roasted peanuts
Jul 23, 2022 20:05:13 #
All you from the North, and your ancestors that would have been Union soldiers may not have know this but if you had destroyed every peanut crop you encountered in the South, you would have starved the Confederacy out much sooner.
Rebel soldiers knew the peanuts were underground and would often survive just on those for food. They would even boil the peanut shells for a poor version of coffee. I don't know how long the nuts underground would last, but with the farmers gone, they would not be harvested on schedule, and remain there for a long period. Confederate soldiers who were likely to be framers and farm boys would check any field of peanuts and thus had a food source there. Not great, but enough. Just Sayin...RJS
Rebel soldiers knew the peanuts were underground and would often survive just on those for food. They would even boil the peanut shells for a poor version of coffee. I don't know how long the nuts underground would last, but with the farmers gone, they would not be harvested on schedule, and remain there for a long period. Confederate soldiers who were likely to be framers and farm boys would check any field of peanuts and thus had a food source there. Not great, but enough. Just Sayin...RJS
Jul 24, 2022 09:19:05 #
Frank romero
Loc: Clovis, NM
DC wrote:
nickel bag???? that can't be what they cost since I doubt you can get one nut for a Nickel so must mean something else right? but I to like salted roasted peanuts
Used m be nickel now about one dollar every thing cost more now
Jul 24, 2022 09:20:39 #
Frank romero
Loc: Clovis, NM
Frank romero wrote:
Used m be nickel now about one dollar every thing cost more now
Dang spell check used to be a nickel now they are close to a dollar
Jul 24, 2022 10:49:55 #
DC wrote:
nickel bag???? that can't be what they cost since I doubt you can get one nut for a Nickel so must mean something else right? but I to like salted roasted peanuts
No kidding. I remember those nickel bags of peanuts. Smaller bags now and $1.69. Like one small, and I mean SMALL, handful of peanuts. They’re not as good and oily like they used to be either. 🤬
Jul 24, 2022 11:15:26 #
El Rod
Loc: Port A
Help wrote:
I love salted peanuts, especially the oily ones in the nickel bag
I love most any kind of peanuts. Salted, peanut butter, parched in the shell, roasted out of the shell. Don’t care too much for boiled peanuts. Traveling in the southeastern states I found some and tried them but didn’t care for them. My favorite is Valencia peanuts, a small red skin that has up to 4 nuts in the shell. I just went through a 5# bag I ordered from Cromers. They are grown in New Mexico. 😎👍
Jul 24, 2022 15:14:17 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
All you from the North, and your ancestors that wo... (show quote)
Don't you Rebs call peanuts Goober Peas down South??
Jul 24, 2022 16:09:46 #
Frank romero
Loc: Clovis, NM
El Rod wrote:
I love most any kind of peanuts. Salted, peanut butter, parched in the shell, roasted out of the shell. Don’t care too much for boiled peanuts. Traveling in the southeastern states I found some and tried them but didn’t care for them. My favorite is Valencia peanuts, a small red skin that has up to 4 nuts in the shell. I just went through a 5# bag I ordered from Cromers. They are grown in New Mexico. 😎👍
I used to buy them at Borden’s peanut plant in Portales, NM. They went out of business and Hampton Co. took over. Every time I have bought some now they are stale.
Jul 24, 2022 16:25:30 #
ranger632 wrote:
Don't you Rebs call peanuts Goober Peas down South??
Yes, some do, but then there is the deep south and also southwest. I have always recognized the term but never used it. Just Sayin...RJS
Jul 24, 2022 16:27:57 #
Jul 24, 2022 16:28:00 #
Maybe someone can correct me but I believe when the Civil War began starving civilians, destroying food supplies was considered off limits. Of course it didn’t take long before starving civilians, prisoners (Andersonville), and other atrocities became the order of the day.
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