I moved to Florida when I was very young. I was too young to know
that anything was different. I hadn't had time to learn traditional
family foods, and processed foods were soon to dominate the
destruction of the actual culture that we are now told is archaic if it
ever existed at all.
In the south there was still some culture left outside of the cities, and
in the spaces between. Traditional farmers are excellent at preserving
culture. They are tied to culture as they are tied to the land, and the
cycles.
Wow, heavy, what I really wanted to talk about when I started this
post, was... BOILED PEANUTS! you know, like the ones at the top of the
screen. My immediate family used to go, after church and find some
roadside stand on a rural Florida highway, and buy several paper bags
full of boiled peanuts. They were always salted more than would seem
necessary, but they were still not too salty.
The white paper bags were rolled down and made a sort of bowl for the
peanuts. The peanuts are boiled in the shell, in water 'salted to that of
the sea'. The inside of the peanuts soak up the salt water and swell, and
become like thick paste. I think that nothing short of trying them will
convince anyone of how good they are. At least when I was ten they
defied my expectations.
If you are allergic to peanuts, don't eat boiled peanuts.
They contain peanuts.
Cajun spicy Boiled peanut recipe
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Peanuts Don't Grow On Trees
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