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Anon learns about nuts (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 125 points 7 months ago (39 children)

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.

[–] ThoGot@lemm.ee 48 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 10 points 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.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago

The english Wikipedia article mentions that it's sometimes called groundnut in english too.

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