What are boiled peanuts?
• Boiled peanuts are simply RAW (unroasted) peanuts boiled in salty water for a long time. They are a common snack in the states of South Carolina, Georgia, northern Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and to a lesser extent, North Carolina and Virginia. Boiled peanuts (and similarly boiled soybeans) also exist in other cultures around the globe, throughout Asia, especially, and Western Africa. Boiled peanuts are boiled in the shell and are consumed, still wet, by cracking open the softened shell and slurping down the contents along with the brine. • What are raw peanuts and how are they different from “green” peanuts? What kind are yours? • Raw peanuts are any kind of peanut that is unroasted; some raw peanuts are available “green,” which means straight out of the ground and moist. Peanuts that are “green” are highly perishable and therefore are available only during the weeks that peanuts are harvested because they must be refrigerated just as soon as they leave the field. Most raw peanuts
