who knew where peanuts came from?

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just following up on a week-old discussion about what a peanut plant is like...

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/pages/peanutplant.shtml

i can't believe i was right at first and then let you guys talk me into thinking they grew on shrubs! they grow underground! who knew...

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew!

Hence they are also called groundnuts.

I liked the bit about not planting the roasted nuts as they won't grow!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"Do not plant eggs, as they will not grow into Chickens"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

people are also quite often surprised that pineapples grow straight up out of the ground. A friend at uni was adamant that they grew on trees although her reasoning for this was somewhat suspect, i.e. "when the man from Del Monte says yes, he talks to the trees!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

(yeah, but they were oranges)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had that pineapple argument as well. It raged for about half an hour in the pub once. I was on the wrong side.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

all i know is that at the ally/tom fap last week NOBODY knew the answer about peanuts for sure. and people were so adamant that i was wrong that they grew under ground that i managed to talk myself out of it!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I must admit that I wasn't certain whether they grew ON the ground (unlikely, as the shells don't seem to ever be unevenly stained) or under it, but I did know that they are called groundnuts. I cook with their oil.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember seeing film of Jimmy Carter harvesting peanuts, but I wasn;'t at the merkin fap. I did think it was common knowledge though

― chris (chris), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

It helps if you realise that they are not actually nuts but legumes.

That concludes the 'Use other pedantic botanical facts' lesson for the day.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember seeing film of Jimmy Carter harvesting peanuts

that was actually why i felt very confident saying they didn't grow on trees, which was the dominant theory at one point. i vaguely remember seeing footage of him playing with short shrubs, and just couldn't remember if he was pulling them out of the ground or picking them from shrubs.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

But Jimmy Carter wasn't a very successful president. Perhaps he was getting it wrong.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

he may have been a crappy perz, but he were a crackin peanut farmer

― chris (chris), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic case of overpromotion.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

A new thread perhaps,
Why do peanuts keep there shape(for the most part)going in your mouth and, comming out? You know this has happened to you! Don't even try to lie about it!!!!

― craig hanzelka (craig hanzelka), Friday, 28 May 2004 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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