"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> Janet Wilder wrote:
>>Nancy2 wrote:
>>> Didn't the Outback Steakhouse first start the peanuts on the floor
>>> thing? I thought it was supposed
>>> to be reflective of an Australian experience, somehow.
>>
>>There was an earlier chain that did that, way before Outback. It was
>>also a western steak house kind of place and I can't remember the name,
>>but my kids loved that place.
>
> Some forty years ago local eateries in north western Montana served
> in-shell peanuts and they weren't chains. I think every bar and
> eatery in Whitefish offered in-shell peanuts, Kalispell too.

Lots of places do but they don't usually expect you to toss the shells on
the floor.