Boiled green peanuts

[BooRadley]

Not exactly a whole lot to this, but if you love that Deep South roadside delicacy, but don't particularly love the Deep South, you can take this with you when you find I-95 North.

Find raw peanuts in your grocers veggie section, and get about a pound of 'em. More if you intend to share them with anyone. Get a big pot, at least a gallon, and fill it with hot, salty water. 1/4 cup of salt is a little, 1/3 is a lot, for a 4 quart pot with about a pound of peanuts. Wash the peanuts a bit, then dump them in the pot and bring it to a boil.

Reduce heat to keep it at a low boil and let them go for at least 3 hours. They're done when they're mushy and smushy and not gritty at all. Take a few out and try them, they shouldn't be gritty. Slimy, smooshy, gooshy and wet is the correct consistency. If it's not that, then they're not done, leave them on.

Add Old Bay for a twist. Mind you, they will turn the water completely nasty. Think of an old soda can that's been used as an ash try for a week -- like that but worse.

Eat in an old shirt, preferably outside, on the front porch. They're kind of sloppy.

[fat mike]

you dont even shell them??

[Freedom&Liberty]

Some people eat them shell and all. Convenience stores cook them overnight in crock pots and sell them in small paper bags.

[DngrMse]

Some people, like me, say "oh my god! What's that horrible stink?".

Take a couple of side roads off the interstate in Georgia...drive until you start seeing hand lettered signs advertising 'boild peenuts'. Have some. I dare you.

[Freedom&Liberty]

I've managed to live here for 30 years without trying them.

[BooRadley]

You shell them when you eat them. Cook in shell, though. That way, when you pop them open, they squirt nasty brown mud everywhere. They're fucking delicious. There's very little I miss about living Down South, and almost all of it is food. Damn they're good -- and cheap and easy, too. (Not exactly health food, but, aside from mustard greens, there's not much you eat in the South that won't give you heart disease).

[BooRadley]

Some people, like me, say "oh my god! What's that horrible stink?".

Take a couple of side roads off the interstate in Georgia...drive until you start seeing hand lettered signs advertising 'boild peenuts'. Have some. I dare you.

I used to stop for those all the time. My girl friend down in Florida was from Chicago and she thought it was the nasties thing ever. Good for me, that meant I didn't have to share.