Posted on 06/17/2022 9:00:25 PM PDT by rintintin
People can make fun of us all they want about the unusual food combinations that Southerners grow up eating and never stop loving. A peanut butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich? Pass the chips. Pineapple-and-cheese casserole? We'll take seconds. Salt on watermelon? Duh. However, the most classic combination barely needs an introduction: peanuts and Coca-Cola. These two very different items, in fact, are not just a snack and refreshment to be enjoyed separately at the same time, but a dynamic duo to be guzzled straight out of a cold glass bottle. Together.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case here.
The author could have easily said cola instead of coca cola.
Most favorite????
No.
Yes it’s a southern thing but it’s not remotely the most popular southern snack.
RC Cola and Moon Pie.
“the peanuts (runners, still in the shell) go in a pot of very salty boiling water”
I had boiled peanuts at at the local race tracks in the Daytona area. Helps to have beer.
You’re right.
I grew up drinking RC cola. It was the cheap one and it was everywhere. An RC cola and a bag of peanuts could be had for a nickel wherever you found cold soft drinks. That was a refreshing snack when you got it and you didn’t get it but maybe once a week, sometimes less often.
The bankers, lawyers, doctors and some other town folks could afford the Cocoa Cola, not country folks.
“I remember when I was a kid we would buy a ten cent bottle of Coca Cola and a 5 cent bag of Planters salted peanuts and pour the nuts into our bottle of soda. Mmmm”!
That’s exactly what we did. I think the Coke cost 15 cents and the bag of Planters peanuts were a nickel.
And maybe a few snack crackers…
My daughter sent me pecan pralines from Savanna Candy Kitchen.
Yum.
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Dime bottle of Coke with a nickle bag of oily salted Planters poured in and don’t let it fizz over.
Peanuts and a RC cola.
Can substitute moon pie.
“I thought it was pepsi, not coke.”
“Coke”
No, Pepsi.
Radar pies!
Mmmmm! Cayenne sprinkled on watermelon, mmmmmm!
RC...
I love grits but have never had boiled peanuts. I like peanuts raw. We grew a few as a kid. I have had them in a Coke.
Budweiser and salted shell on peanuts, shell the nuts add them to the bud drink and repeat. Also pork rinds and Tabasco or Fritos and Tabasco are acceptable substitutes just not in the beer like the peanuts. Pickapepper sauce and cream cheese with triskits is also a thing in deep South East Texas or cocktail sauce canned white lump crab meat in top of a log of cream cheese also with crackers. Oh and the obligatory blue cheese crumbles,cream cheese, sour cream and shredded cheddar cheese ball.
We always put salt on any kind of melon. It makes the melon taste more like itself.
I never had an appetite for pork rinds ever. Until i went to the Philippines lol
The Hispanics have a chili lime salt called tajin it’s used on all manner of melons and sweet fruits it’s sour and salty perfect to pair with the sweetness. It also makes for a dandy salt rim on a bloody Mary or michilada which is a bloody Mary without vodka but Mexican beer and seafood such as a raw oyster or clam it’s popular all over Baja California especially Los Cabos.
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