Happy 😃 National 🇺🇸 Peanut 🥜 Day 🌞!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

No memory quite so sublime as walking downtown on a Saturday morning and being seduced by the aroma of fresh roasted peanuts wafting from the Planter’s Shoppe!

[Ohiogal]

1. You got my curiosity up, Floyd

Found this brief history of the peanut from the National Peanut Board while searching.

http://www.nationalpeanutboard.org/peanut-info/history-peanuts-peanut-butter.htm

Evidently they originated in South America, I didn't know that!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Very cool! Thanks Ohiogal! 🥜

[Ohiogal]

5. It was a tough nut to crack

but you are most welcome, Floyd!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. Ah, but you were able to get to the meat of the subject! 🥜

[True Dough]

3. This thread

is a shell of the Happy National TV Dinner Day thread!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. You crack me up! 🥜

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Remember this?

Sears Roebuck store had a candy & nut counter with every imaginable type of nut roasting, giving off an incredible aroma.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. Glorious! 🥜

[cyclonefence]

9. I'm so glad you reminded me of this

I'd almost forgotten that there were once shops that sold nuts, nothing but nuts, which were roasted on site. Like dial telephones and card catalogs in the library, more Americana that my children will never know about. Progress has been so fast during my (our) lifetime that my childhood might as well have taken place on Mars.

Although my grandmother once told me that she had seen the original Wild West show with Buffalo Bill *and* a man walking on the moon. She was born at a cusp; I feel like I was born on a Time Playground, on the slicky-slide.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Life before mega malls and strip centers. Downtown was a collection of mom and pops with

a few chains like Flagg Brothers, Tandy’s and National Shirt Shop. We had three department stores one of which had a soda fountain and full service upscale restaurant on site.

[cyclonefence]

13. When I moved to Philadelphia in 1969 (from WV)

a friend told me to be sure to go to Wanamakers.

A pet shop. Shoe repair and dry cleaning on the mezzanine. The CRYSTAL TEA ROOM on nine. Designer boutiques on one floor. Lunch counter in the basement. And don't forget the mighty Wurlitzer. A person could live there.

[MarvinGardens]

10. Time to buy some green peanuts...

And boil them in brine! For those who have never had boiled peanuts, IMO they are superior to roasted.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. Had them traveling through the south several years ago! 😋