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Originally Posted by chattiesmom

Hot boiled peanuts in the shell are like eating a small piece of Heaven. The best place to buy them is when you are out on a sight seeing journey on a two lane country road and just about the time you get a terrible case of the munchies, you find a small road-side stand where there is an open wood fire with a huge cast iron pot filled with bubbling salted hot peanuts! If you have your car windows rolled down you can smell the wood fire about a mile away.

To answer your question, Teri, they DO NOT taste like dry roasted or fried or smoked peanuts, they taste like boiled peanuts. They have a very distinctive flavor that is beyond description..... Oh man alive -- you pop the hot peanut in your mouth savor the salty flavor of the shell and use your teeth to punch open the shell, roll the peanut around in your mouth and tease the nuts out with your tounge. Eating a boiled peanut the "right" way is very sensual. Can I say that?

Wow, quite descriptive! Have you ever thought about a writing career?? I was reading it out loud to my son till I got to the last sentence....