“I think the first iteration was peanuts in RC Cola. When my grandparents were growing up in rural Mississippi during the depression most everyone drank RC Cola, not Coca-Cola.”
I just made the same comment. My father was from Ellisville, Jones County (Free State of Jones), MS.
My family is from Jasper County, the next county to the north of Jones. I still have property and a house there, but I live in Florida most of the time.