Now make him freak out again by telling him peanuts aren’t nuts.
Does he know about cashews?
Ground beans.
Okay, this may paint me in a bad light, but I was fucking 40 before I learned peanuts grew underground. I ain’t Joe Rogan stupid, but dang.
Nobody around here grew them (that I know of), and I never went anywhere that grew them where I would see them.
I assumed they were like any legume, growing above ground like peas or green beans.
But noooooo, they’re ground nuts. Which I thought was a different plant entirely.
Out of all my damn family on both sides, visiting (and working on) various farms, nobody grew the damn things.
So, yeah.
I’m all for introducing the saying “I’m not Joe Rogan stupid, but…” into the wider world.
In plenty of languages peanuts are also called ‘ground nuts’ or ‘earth nuts’
Ouch, I had to think about what it’s in my motherlanguage and it’s actually earth nuts (Erdnüsse in German).
If you had asked me how they grow it would have been a 50/50 if I got it wrong.
relevant xkcd:
Natürlich! Wo sollen Erdnüsse sonst herkommen, wenn nicht aus der Erde?
