• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      I’m all for introducing the saying “I’m not Joe Rogan stupid, but…” into the wider world.

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      7 months ago

      In plenty of languages peanuts are also called ‘ground nuts’ or ‘earth nuts’

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        7 months ago

        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.