Subscribe Sun Ad. And not just any bag, but a container like the ones used by NASA to package food for astronauts. Suddenly I was conjuring up a picture of guys in space suits surrounded by a cloud of weightless floating shells they've been spitting.
Boiled peanuts are a Southern tradition and an acquired taste.
I was raised north of the boiled peanut belt and went through 27 years of life thinking of a peanut as something to be smashed and spread on bread with jelly, or as a key ingredient in Cracker Jacks. My initiation came at a Lake Butler town council meeting more than 20 years ago. I declined the offer, but then sat and listened to the sound of peanuts being sucked from the shells between the official acts of business. Not bad, but not something I'd seek out. But when my children were young, boiled peanuts were the only vegetable they'd eat voluntarily, other than French fries and candy corn.