Neither a pea nor a nut
June 25, 2020 10:23 AM   Subscribe

Only a certain peanut bred for the proper size and the look of its shell makes the cut for the ballpark trade. It’s called the Virginia. [SLNYT]
posted by Chrysostom (15 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Rough season for baseball-related nuts: No spitting allowed this year.
posted by Huffy Puffy at 10:40 AM on June 25, 2020 [4 favorites]


Those are the ones I feed to squirrels! Not roasted, usually, though.
posted by tavella at 11:34 AM on June 25, 2020 [1 favorite]


I'm on the Valencia nut team, at least for peanut butter.
posted by MtDewd at 11:54 AM on June 25, 2020


"...oh, wait. It is a nut."
posted by SansPoint at 11:57 AM on June 25, 2020


I've developed a habit for dill-pickle-flavored peanuts. I go through a tin or two every week. I might need help.
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:48 PM on June 25, 2020 [1 favorite]


When we ground our own peanut butter, we'd always use the skins-on Virginias. I loved the brown flecks and the extra dash of bitterness / complexity.
posted by seanmpuckett at 1:44 PM on June 25, 2020 [3 favorites]


I miss peanuts so much.

If there was any chance at all I could eat it, right now I'd be ripening my experimental cheddars made from peanut milk instead of dairy, peanut milk I'd made myself from a range of peanut varieties I'd roasted myself.
posted by jamjam at 1:56 PM on June 25, 2020 [1 favorite]


You assert a longing for nut butter, yet your username is "jamjam". Jam - Jam. I detect a certain lack of consistency here. If you had called yourself, oh, I don't know, "nutnut", I would perhaps have been more ready to believe you.
posted by Joe in Australia at 3:20 PM on June 25, 2020 [9 favorites]


I had noticed that shell-on peanuts seemed to be oddly inexpensive / always on sale as of late in the local grocery store. I guess this explains why.
posted by Kadin2048 at 4:01 PM on June 25, 2020


If you had called yourself, oh, I don't know, "nutnut", I would perhaps have been more ready to believe you.

Metafilter:
posted by mhoye at 6:16 PM on June 25, 2020 [3 favorites]


Bring back giveaways of free government peanut butter. Not the gritty kind from the Carter and Reagan era, but that smooth hydrogenated goodness that Clinton put out.

Free peanut butter for all! Also I would like some long blocks of late Carter/early Reagan era government cheese. Velveeta tried to mimic cheddar, but that pale government product was so much better - a processed version of queso blanco, if you will.

These two humble proteins, government peanut butter and government cheese, in combination with powdered milk (no thanks, no need to bring THAT back) and bread from the day old store can be used used to raise healthy children when paired with fruit and veg from yard gardens. It's worked before. It can work again.
posted by EinAtlanta at 8:45 PM on June 25, 2020 [1 favorite]


You assert a longing for nut butter, yet your username is "jamjam". Jam - Jam. I detect a certain lack of consistency here. If you had called yourself, oh, I don't know, "nutnut", I would perhaps have been more ready to believe you.

"nutnut" would have been a little too on the nose, though I might have considered 'nutstun' for the overtone of nuts coming and going, but your intuition is right: my first choice was 'jamjel' but I couldn't get it, I think, so I had to settle.

But now I've lost jam and jelly too, and (metaphor malfunction alert) to top it all off, bread's been knocked off my plate as well!

I can't even eat gruel.

Turns out cheese is actually the last refuge of scoundrels, not patriotism, regardless of what stuck up old Dictionary boy might have thought.
posted by jamjam at 12:01 AM on June 26, 2020 [2 favorites]


Peanuts in Coke. Best. Thing. Ever.
posted by Roger Pittman at 12:45 PM on June 26, 2020 [2 favorites]


Paywall-free link
posted by signsofrain at 1:30 PM on June 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


[At the risk of derailing: we're doing fantasy baseball after all this year! There's an invitation link in my profile.]
posted by Huffy Puffy at 12:36 PM on June 27, 2020


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