Peanuts in the shell

[johnmdesigner]

My Chinese in-laws grow their own and roast some pretty good peanuts.
But the pound bag they send once a year is gone in 30 seconds.
Those peanuts they serve in the Five Guys for free are pretty tasty.
But I don't really have room in the apartment for a 50 pound bag.

Anyone have a source for good roasted peanuts in the shell? Fresh?!
Most of the brands I've tried from the markets here are old and stale.

[WadePatton]

Split the 50# bag with some legume eating bros.?

i only eat boiled or creamy peanuts.

[rowdyhillrambler]

Hey Wade, i was out your way today 146 to Stones River rd., then down into the valley.. Where you at? Keeping the "new" distillery in action.?

[WadePatton]

not interested in store-bought "shine". they put my man "out of biz"-they hired him to work for them. price is tripled or quadrupled and quality has been spotty as the owners "pushed" the first batches. It's neat having a distillery here, but that's as far as it goes for me. I'll buy a t-shirt or somthin'. (Nose in the wind for a new source.) pm on that if you has anythin.

I'm out on the South side, back up on the Highland Rim @Mooretown. I'm yet riding the flats, not hill worthy yet.

[mnoble485]

Split the 50# bag with some legume eating bros.?

i only eat boiled or creamy peanuts.

I have tried boiled peanuts 50 ways from Sunday. I just can't get past the texture. Every one says try these they are different. Not so.
They still "feel" funny. I can ,however, eat my considerable weight in salted in the shell roasted!

Mike

[steve garro]

Not goobers but in Camp Verde right now you can't even give pecans away, there are so many.
The roads are littered with them, the Javelinas are even tired of them, my neighbors' dog eats so many she pukes.
Allows you to be selective - the papershells are the shit!
- Garro.

[WadePatton]

fwak yeah, had a ton of pecans this year. traded a bushel, gave a bunch away at Christmas, have more, and I've only the one (big) tree. Some years i have to fight the crows to get many at all.

Grew up on dry dusty roasted peanuts, "discovered" soppy wet slick drippy boiled peanuts on fishing trips to the Gulf--and made the switch, now dry nuts are for hard times atwo.

[ron l edmiston]

I have tried boiled peanuts 50 ways from Sunday. I just can't get past the texture. Every one says try these they are different. Not so.
They still "feel" funny. I can ,however, eat my considerable weight in salted in the shell roasted!

Mike

stop by -- always some roasted shell'n eats around..

ronnie

[Nierman]

...Grew up on dry dusty roasted peanuts, "discovered" soppy wet slick drippy boiled peanuts on fishing trips to the Gulf--and made the switch, now dry nuts are for hard times atwo.

I found boiled peanuts to be like tiny bursting super-buttery new potatoes in my mouth. Nothing what I'd expected - but like I said, I tried to like them. Picked them up roadside just outside Luverne, AL. My daughter's texturally finicky with her food and she about spat them all over the back of my seat. I'm not giving up on them, if we drive the kids back down to the Gulf this summer, I'll surely get suckered in to another bag - if anything just to get out and stretch the legs. My wife and I do burpees at each pit stop to promote circulation, embarrass the kids and confuse the locals.

[Eddie]

You guys are nuts, boiled peanuts are amazing. I really enjoy the spiced ones. Some of the best can be found at gas stations along the 301 corridor in north FL.

[YO!!!]

Boiled peanuts should be the snack of choice for the upcoming SE event.

As stated by EB above; every gas station is a potential for a new delight.

[Eddie]

YO, where you located?

I fondly remember attending the mud bog races out in Newberry, FL. There were something like five different boiled peanut vendors set up. Had to try every one of them. Some really bring the cayenne to another level.

[YO!!!]

I am in Atlanta.

There are some interesting boiled peanut pit stops in North Georgia as well as most of the South.

The best ones usually have an old cast boilin' pot on the fire.

[WadePatton]

Yes, they're not all good.

Avoid: crock-potted squishy mart offerings. they're not all bad, but if you're ever going to get mushy, overcooked nuts, this is a likely place-esp this far north. I pretty much won't buy 'em around here.

SEEK: open-fired, road-side seasonal stands. some of the best i had were in NC near GA line and were cooked in a cut open beer keg with a

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Never had a bad one South of Montgomery.

[Nierman]

Damn if I'm not craving me some boiled peanuts right now. Funny, that.

Hopefully I just had the wrong experience - as if someone came here to experience good BBQ and KC Masterpiece was the first restaurant they hit up.

[mnoble485]

stop by -- always some roasted shell'n eats around..

ronnie

Will do it soon as work gets out of thr way. Thanks for the invite.

Mike

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