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View Poll Results: Is East Texas the Deep South?
Yes 175 73.53%
No 63 26.47%
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Old 07-06-2012, 07:59 PM
 
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Yep, georgia, Alabama, mississippi, NC, SC, Tennessee, VA do a ton of boiled peanuts...just dont have em in East Texas or Louisiana much. Interesting tidbit of useless trivia though, the peanut most often used for boiling is the Valencia peanut, grown in none other than West Texas. Making Texas, second only to Georgia and just ahead of Alabama as the top 3 peanut producing states in the nation.
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Old 07-06-2012, 08:00 PM
 
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Well said, soletaire. I agree about the boiled peanuts. They seem to be mostly a trait of the Atlantic South.
Thank you Nairobi...and you DO see a ton of them in the Atlantic South. They sell those things everywhere in the Atlantic South and Southeast, and I just never got around to liking them much -- this is most certainly because Im a Texan who didnt develop a taste for them early on. Tried that pickled sausage, and still regret it to this day. Just wasnt for me. Now fried green tomatoes? Im with it! -- and I'd take a crawfish boil over a peanut boil anyday come to think of it.
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Old 07-06-2012, 08:03 PM
 
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Yep, georgia, Alabama, mississippi, NC, SC, Tennessee, VA do a ton of boiled peanuts...just dont have em in East Texas or Louisiana much. Interesting tidbit of useless trivia though, the peanut most often used for boiling is the Valencia peanut, grown in none other than West Texas. Making Texas, second only to Georgia and just ahead of Alabama as the top 3 peanut producing states in the nation.
Then I'd say it's high time for some dang boiled peanuts 'round here. Dadgummit!

I just don't want to make them. They're a mess.
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Old 07-06-2012, 08:04 PM
 
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Thank you Nairobi...and you DO see a ton of them in the Atlantic South. They sell those things everywhere in the Atlantic South and Southeast, and I just never got around to liking them much -- this is most certainly because Im a Texan who didnt develop a taste for them early on. Tried that pickled sausage, and still regret it to this day. Just wasnt for me. Now fried green tomatoes? Im with it! -- and I'd take a crawfish boil over a peanut boil anyday come to think of it.
I'll grab a bag of boiled peanuts on the way to a crawfish boil myself! Can't wait for crawfish season to come around again, now that I'm thinking of it...

But hey, boiled peanuts in Virginia and North Carolina? Honestly, I've never seen them there, and I lived in NC for three years and VA for three years as well. Haven't been to NC in awhile, but I've been to VA several times in the past years. How did I miss the boiled peanuts? My radar must be malfunctioning!
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Old 07-06-2012, 08:09 PM
 
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I must say I never have run onto boiled peanuts in Virginia, either living there as a kid in the early 1960s or visiting there as an adult in the last two or three years. The whole concept sounds doubtful to me. Some sort of Deep South thing methinks. Virginia is part of the Upper South.

Of course in Lower Delaware they do eat stewed muskrat in season. Does that make them Southern?
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Old 07-06-2012, 08:09 PM
 
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I'll grab a bag of boiled peanuts on the way to a crawfish boil myself! Can't wait for crawfish season to come around again, now that I'm thinking of it...

But hey, boiled peanuts in Virginia and North Carolina? Honestly, I've never seen them there, and I lived in NC for three years and VA for three years as well. Haven't been to NC in awhile, but I've been to VA several times in the past years. How did I miss the boiled peanuts? My radar must be malfunctioning!

REALLY!?..what part of Virginia were you in?...Ill say this: go to some of those small town stores in southwest/south central virginia...and of course North Carolina has them in any farmers market. They'll have signs sitting on the ground on the side of the road that say it too as you're driving along between Southcentral Virginia - Danville and about Raleigh. Virginia even has its own type of Virginia Peanut just for boiling apparently..who knew?
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Old 07-06-2012, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Greenville, Delaware
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Well, if you are talking about those trashy little towns like Danville, I wouldn't know. I prefer the patrician places like Charlottesville. But I've not seen them as far south as Williamsburg either.
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Old 07-06-2012, 08:18 PM
 
Location: Where I live.
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Then I'd say it's high time for some dang boiled peanuts 'round here. Dadgummit!

I just don't want to make them. They're a mess.
How do you cook them? Why are they any messier than any other legume?

Yep, my ignorance is showing, LOL!
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Old 07-06-2012, 08:18 PM
 
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Yeah, I was about to say, you'd actually have to get off the highway and outside of the NOVA bubble to see what I saw..lol...
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Old 07-06-2012, 08:27 PM
 
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REALLY!?..what part of Virginia were you in?...Ill say this: go to some of those small town stores in southwest/south central virginia...and of course North Carolina has them in any farmers market. They'll have signs sitting on the ground on the side of the road that say it too as you're driving along between Southcentral Virginia - Danville and about Raleigh. Virginia even has its own type of Virginia Peanut just for boiling apparently..who knew?
Wow, I had no idea.

I have spent most of my time in Virginia in the Hampton Roads area and between, say, Newport News and Maryland.

Done some traveling and vacationing in the Shenandoah Mountains as well, so I've driven THROUGH the central part of the state, but haven't spent a lot of time there. I can' BELIEVE I missed a boiled peanut stand within a fifty mile radius! Darn it!
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