Covid/Stress/genetics/SSRIs destroyed my ability to safely ingest gluten/soy/most high FODMAP foods, but thankfully, I can still get away with copious amounts of peanuts. I get a bag of salted+roasted, and a bag of raw that I roast myself, and then I combine them. High protein. Decent quality fat.
Literally bought a $1 bag of pinto beans and planted them in my new garden this year just to get something going. Entire place has bean bushes going like crazy. Legumes are happy little dudes that enrich the soil and take whatever they can get.
All the others in the top five are non-desert areas, in general. Also Texas is huge, no idea of specific growing conditions in areas where the peanuts grow, but the entire state isn't desert.
The very last step in this circle of life is when a dejected Baseball fan eats the peanuts while watching his favorite team and it's 280 million dollar payroll go 8-19 to start the season.
In French it's "cacahuète" which, initially, seems like a weird word (it even has "caca" in it, which is a familiar word for shit) but looking at the etymology for the word traces it back to "tlacacahuatl" in Nahuatl which ultimately means "ground cocoa" (cocoa is "cacao" in French, you see the resemblance).
We also call it "arachide" from the name of the plant. Its scientific name being Arachis hypogaea, which means underground peas. And apparently, it used to be called "pois de terre" or "pistache de terre" in the Antilles in the 17~18th century, which means respectively ground peas and ground pistachios.
It was illegal to grow peanuts for commercial sale without a license. It's also illegal to grow inc ertain areas. All I'm saying is peanuts are delicious.
So your original point was that it's illegal to grow peanuts for commercial sale?? How is requiring businesses to have permits to sell food controversial, what is going on here
TheMindEntropic
Covid/Stress/genetics/SSRIs destroyed my ability to safely ingest gluten/soy/most high FODMAP foods, but thankfully, I can still get away with copious amounts of peanuts. I get a bag of salted+roasted, and a bag of raw that I roast myself, and then I combine them. High protein. Decent quality fat.
TheLastSpaceman
Aw, nuts! +1
TheMellowPeril
*legumes
sadurdaynight
Literally bought a $1 bag of pinto beans and planted them in my new garden this year just to get something going. Entire place has bean bushes going like crazy. Legumes are happy little dudes that enrich the soil and take whatever they can get.
IjustsaywhatIthink
Oh, "How do PEANUTS grow"...the internet has ruined me.
SuperfluousMeh
Now boil those suckers
WaffleParty89
Wow I never knew they grew so quickly! Just 3 months to produce more seeds/nuts
warpfactor1
TIL
For some reason I thought they were trees
JackHL01
Jimmy Carter likes this!
mmoser35731415
I grew some a couple years ago fed bluebirds and squirrels.
FatboyRich
Dry roasted? How ‘bout Spanish ones? Are they allowed in?
maphilli14
Even cooler you can litterally put them the roasted nuts into a food processor and the just turn into peanut butter!
Uptoo11ven
Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas!
DavidNightingale
Some people have no idea how many people actually know how peanuts grow.
Bombaso
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L4t3xs
Finnish name for it is groundnut.
NussKnuspermix
How do these nuts spread then?
oblimo
Plants are so efficient with energy, it's often frightening.
Cactus21
YpsilantiRomani
Most peanuts in the United States are grown by pumping water into a desert
Taxian
Most peanuts are grown in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. Not exactly desert states.
YpsilantiRomani
I was told they were grown it Texas I a desert area
Taxian
I think they are like the fourth or fifth largest producer? Fourth according to this:
https://nationalpeanutboard.org/news/peanut-country-usa/
All the others in the top five are non-desert areas, in general. Also Texas is huge, no idea of specific growing conditions in areas where the peanuts grow, but the entire state isn't desert.
Evenmoreuselessname
Does look like most Texas peanuts are in the desert.
StephenDaniels
The very last step in this circle of life is when a dejected Baseball fan eats the peanuts while watching his favorite team and it's 280 million dollar payroll go 8-19 to start the season.
Adester
In german they are called "Erdnüsse" - ground nuts or soil nuts
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundnut
includes three other species with seeds that ripen underground
JackHL01
Stimmt!
brownribbon
Donde esta la erdnüsse?
AlexSomething
In French it's "cacahuète" which, initially, seems like a weird word (it even has "caca" in it, which is a familiar word for shit) but looking at the etymology for the word traces it back to "tlacacahuatl" in Nahuatl which ultimately means "ground cocoa" (cocoa is "cacao" in French, you see the resemblance).
AlexSomething
We also call it "arachide" from the name of the plant. Its scientific name being Arachis hypogaea, which means underground peas. And apparently, it used to be called "pois de terre" or "pistache de terre" in the Antilles in the 17~18th century, which means respectively ground peas and ground pistachios.
PorcNoStar
Native French speaker me, is very happy to learn all these new things. It does make sense if you dig deep enough.
MenloPart
In Spanish, one word is "cacahuete."
fformulaa
G man says this is illegal for certain plants even though nature does this naturally. So is nature illegal then? Bonkers!
REOJackwagon
It would be illegal if that creates value for shareholders
fformulaa
Man oh man, our conversation is causing strife with the bots!
REOJackwagon
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ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
orr..... people are bit tired of political cynicism plugged into every damned post
fformulaa
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NotBuyinIt
What's illegal??
fformulaa
Growing certain plants.
NotBuyinIt
What does that have to do with peanuts??
fformulaa
It was illegal to grow peanuts for commercial sale without a license. It's also illegal to grow inc ertain areas. All I'm saying is peanuts are delicious.
NotBuyinIt
So your original point was that it's illegal to grow peanuts for commercial sale?? How is requiring businesses to have permits to sell food controversial, what is going on here
ThatHurts
Also illegal to drive over certain objects and throw certain objects at people! THE LAW IS CRAZY! WHY ARE THERE BOUNDARIES?! jfc..
fformulaa
Yes! Now you understand my outrage! Can't even grow a god dang Eichhornia crassipes! Looks gorgeous but no, can't grow it. Or the japanese knotweed.
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
A very rapidly spreading, invasive plant? You're wondering why we can't plant it? Or was this an /s thing that I missed?