Goobers

I previously documented how much I enjoyed great salted in the shell peanuts from The Good Earth Peanut Company, of Skippers VA. It has been a while since we’d had any good goobers, so I placed an order at TGEPC’s online store last week. On Friday, they arrived, two 5-pound bags of salted-in-the-shell crunchiness.

I got the stink-eye from my little bride at first, and a comment to the effect of WTF are we gonna do with all these peanuts?, there being only two of us here and all. I suggested that since this weekend was NASCAR championship weekend, that we could also have a “Beer and Goobers” Festival to commemorate the occasion. Another stink-eye. So, yesterday, we broke the big sacks up, parcelled them out into 1 quart ZipLoc bags, sealed those up, put them into a Lock & Lock freezer container¹, and put the Lock & Lock container into the deep freeze. We left an ample amount out for snacking, and I have several smaller bags for the lunch pail for next week.

One other thing we did: as we broke up the larger bags, we² carefully went through the peanuts, and culled out those with cracked and broken shells. Those went into a separate “eat first” bowl. Perfectly good, even if a little misshapen.

Good Earth’s website has great history pages about the history of TGEPC, and peanut farming in general. Check it out. Good information, and good eats, reasonably priced.

-k-

Good Earth Peanut Company