I’m glad people dig the Frig? – by the way, congrats Fuzzy and Vanessa, for correctly IDing the butter – but I’m on freaking vacation. Posting is one thing, it’s fun and relaxing, but worrying about the daily Frig? is cramping my style, which is pretty cramped as it is. So it’s going to a 1-2x a week thing until such time as I’m (1) back and (2) in possession of a better theme for added features like this, because I’m kinda hating how the Frig? is taking over the home page like a creeping fungus to the detriment of regular posts. Go me and my foresight!
I wouldn’t leave you totally hanging, though.
So I ask you: Do you love ’em? Do you hate ’em? Do they not look like tiny turds to you, as they do to me? Boiled peanuts, that is.
Thanks for the nuts, kfisto!
Tonight we’re heading to both Dodge’s and Graham’s dining establishments, camera in tow. Let’s see if they can pick up the pace in a professional setting, shall we?
Thursday Night Smackdown 
I’m with you, I hate boiled peanuts.
I’ve never had boiled peanuts, though I am quite partial to the roasted kind. I hear the ONLY way to eat boiled peanuts is dropped into a bottle of Coke, though. In the South, anyway, which is I think the only place you can get peanuts in boiled form. And Coke in a bottle, for that matter. I never see that up here in Yankee-land.
No fear, we will forgive you. A once a day gross-out may have been a bit over the top anyway.
Butter? No way! You have to explain how it came to look like that. Melted obviously but then what? Re-fridged and only partially resolidified? Frozen? What? And is that really a whole full sized pitcher full? What the fuck were you making?
As a homegrown, deep-fried southern girl, I have to admit that I’ll eat these things by the box. One of the lessons of southern food is “Judge ye not a book by its cover,” as the most disgusting looking entrees are usually the most delicious.
Hey — you know, you could always ask us for help with pics for The Frig? I’m sure there are a lot of people willing to send you interesting pics. I’m in. If you want help. Just sayin’
But right now just enjoy your vacation for cripe sake.
Awfully horribly embarrassing confession: I eat boiled peanuts. I’m half Japanese/half redneck. Wow… that was liberating!
I grew up eating them. My family is known to stop… on the side of the road… in rural North Florida… to buy boiled penauts. The “roadside” seller of boiled peanuts is always sporting a snazzy mullet and missing teeth. He’s usually with his wife that looks strangely like his sister.
I no longer will eat roadside “Balled peeeenuts” (as my kinfolk call them) because I have no idea if Bubba Hoss washed his hands before cooking. But every year when my “kin” get together for our family reunion you can bet your ass there is a big vat o’ boiled peanuts.
BTW… my Japanese mother eats them, but (due to her accent) calls them Bald Penis. I shit you not.
anna, i cannot explain, it wasn’t my butter. the picture’s original caption just said “the butter for the corn.” so either it’s a teeny tiny pitcher, or an ASSload of corn.
traci, there is most definitely no shortage of gross food pictures – people, definitely send ’em it you got ’em! i just have to figure out a way to have this feature but not have it totally overshadow the “real” stuff, y’know?
candace, best. story. ever.
Dude, if you’re in NC, you gots to have some boiled peanuts. It’s the law! You don’t have to like them, but you at least have to try them. Hehehehehe.
Don’t worry about the Frig, Michelle. We just want you to have an enjoyable and relaxing vacation. We can manage while you are out having fun. Tis okay!! No worries…be happy!
I tried these in north Florida & Georgia for the first time this summer. I like edamame, so it really stands to reason that I liked these. A lot. Briefly (VERY briefly) considered moving to Savannah, can’t get these in CA. Must contact Lee Bros, stat….
If you are in the Deep South (usually deeper than N.C.), and you for some reason find yourself in a gas station, there is a good chance that you will see a crockpot-style kettle filled with boiled peanuts, nice and warm. If you are very lucky, there will be two kettles- one plain, one spicy. If you are very, VERY lucky, and let me assure you that this can happen in Eastern North Carolina, the gas station will also sell deep-fried chicken livers. Yeeehaw! Wash down with ice-cold Barq’s or CheerWine (I don’t actually drink that stuff. I prefer sweet tea).
BTW, boiled peanuts make me think more of cooked bugs than of turds. You know, because of the squishy texture inside the shells. Tasty, though.
Never had these before since I live in the NW, but I’d sure try them! I love peanuts and peanut butter!
YUM!!! It’s been far too long since I’ve had these. I know what I’m asking my (Georgia based) cousin for for Christmas this year. I don’t know if they would even be available at that time of year, but if not he can postpone my Christmas gift until they are!!! Great memories here. ‘Back in the day’, I attended Arizona State U, and a friend of mine happened to be from the south. His parents sent him a care package with a huge container of those. He offered them to his friends, only thinking nobody else would eat them. He wasn’t too happy with me…LOL!