Coke and peanuts
I was born and raised in the south (now transplanted in the north), but one of my southern coworkers told me of a "southern tradition" that I have never heard of.
http://www.marshbunny.com/recipes/peanuts.html
http://recipes.stsams.org/recipes/pea...
Coke with peanuts in it. My mind can't wrap itself around the concept. Presumably some people think it's good, but have any of you tried it? What is it like?
... I may have to go to the grocery store and try this out. I am morbidly curious.
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We grew up with this treat! It was great when traveling, because when Daddy stopped for gas we got a bottle of coke out of the machine and peanuts from inside while he was getting the gas. (This was full service stations... no stations with "stores" then) Now, I usually just have both and put peanuts in my mouth and take a swig before I eat them. It's also mentioned in Chrystal Gayle's song I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool.
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I grew up in middle Tennessee, and it was Pepsi or RC + Lance salted peanuts. My grandfather ran a little country store, and the farmers would always pick this up as a snack because they could use one hand to drive their tractors, and the other hand to hold both their food and drink. Very practical!
I used to LOVE this when I was little, but by the time I was about 8, I had grown deathly allergic to peanuts. One sweet day there will be some sort of drug that will allow me to eat peanuts again, and without question, this will be the very first way I eat peanuts again. In a glass bottle, of course.
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re: brooklynkoshereater
Perilagu Khan
Apr 1, 2010 07:27 AM
My pa introduced me to C&P here in Lubbock, Texas back in the early 70s. Haven't tried it since then. Pa passed away in '06 (requiescat in pacem). Looks like it's high time to revisit an old tradition.
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So I was at dinner tonight and in passing I mentioned having coke and peanuts as a kid and my wife looked at me like I had lost my mind, so I got online to get some more info on it to see if, in fact, I was out of my mind. My Dad introduced me to C&Ps as a kid back in the late 70s. It's funny, I grew up in Dallas (very big city, right?) and my wife split time between Wyoming and China of all places (where her mom taught English), and SHE always looks at ME like I'm the one who is out of my mind when I bring these little gems from my childhood up. She also had a good laugh when I warned her that our daughter was "fixin' to tump over" her tricycle a few year back.
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Well I bought some Coke and peanuts and tried this. Pretty good. Tasted like... well... Coke with peanuts. I got the glass bottles, but the ones I purchased still had the high fructose corn syrup. I think next time I'm in work I'll try this at lunch and freak out all my Yankee coworkers. :-)
I discussed this with my dad and he wanted to know where this started. Anyone know?
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I grew up in eastern Tennessee and we also had coke and peanuts. I have to chuckle at everyone's specific descriptions - I'd forgotten about Lance peanuts, but not their orange Nip Chee Crackers! My mother loved the combination during her childhood, especially when visiting her grandparents tobacco farm in North Carolina. What I'm curious about it Laverne's milk & Pepsi combination...
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re: slslaughter
clamscasino
Dec 23, 2006 02:16 PM
Ahh..milk and Pepsi. Take a tall glass, add ice. Pour in milk to come one quarter up the glass. Add Pepsi or Coke. Stir slightly with a spoon. Enjoy.
This was a favorite of my mother's. She was from Michigan. Maybe it's a Mid-west thing.
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Debbie M
Dec 23, 2006 01:00 AM
Back in the 80s, when "White Trash Cooking" first came out, I bought a copy as a Xmas gift for my Dad, who was born and raised in the Ozarks. It had a recipe for coke and peanuts, called The Quick Pick Me Up (there was also a "healthier" version called The Low-Cal Pick Me Up, using Tab and dry roasted peanuts). I laughingly told him about it, and he said he ate it all the time at work, and his California co-workers thought it was the most odd, disgusting thing.
Of course, being a Pepsi man, he substituted that for Coke.
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I think I remember that it made the Coke foam over like in the Mentos video but not as dramatically of course http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...
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Sam Fujisaka
Dec 22, 2006 10:14 PM
I had a good friend whose girlfriend was addicted to coke and peanuts.
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Andiereid
Dec 22, 2006 09:55 PM
My father used to LOVE that! He used to take me out on job sites with him and we'd get the small bottles of Coke and a little bag of salted, roasted Lance peanuts and drop a couple of them in the coke at a time, take a swig and crunch a peanut. My dad spent his childhood in Alabama and moved to Arkansas, where they raised me, and everyone knew about Coke and peanuts. It's that mixture of sweet and salty (think Liquid Payday). Sounds nasty, but if memory serves me, it was pretty good.
Of course, I was a kid, and I also thought Vienna Sausages were delicious, so take that with a grain of salt.
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re: Andiereid
There's something that changed, and I discovered it when I tried to replicate that delightful sweet/salty taste that I grew up with.
Glass bottles. You have to do it in glass bottles. The plastic ones don't work - or maybe I'm just imagining it - and the idea of throwing peanuts in a can of Coke is just nuts.
Oh, and you cannot use Diet Coke for this. Ever.
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re: Andiereid
When I was a kid I remember this was one of my Dad's favorite things, too - except it was ususally Lance peanuts in an RC Cola. We were in Texas.
I can't think of anything as an adult that I would refuse to eat but I hope to never see another vienna sausage for as long as I live....
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