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On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 20:38:08 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"Bruce" wrote in message ...
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>On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:10:07 -0500, jmcquown >
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>>On 2/27/2019 11:53 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> I know there was some sort of peanut problem a few years ago. Just can't
>>> remember what. Puny peanuts? Drought? Something that.
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>>> Now I am having trouble finding plain peanuts. I can find the Cocktail
>>> ones but Redskin or unsalted Dry roasted are hard to find. Can't even
>>> find online unless I pay a really high price. Seems the flavored nuts
>>> are far more common. Also seems like much less shelf space devoted to
>>> nuts in the stores. Anyone else having this problem?

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>>IIRC the peanut harvest in the US (Carolinas) was adversely affected by
>>Hurricane Matthew. What do you mean by "redskin" peanuts? Do you mean
>>raw (aka "Spanish") peanuts that you have to roast? That's the kind I
>>buy when I make peanut brittle. Like this:
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>>https://nuts.com/nuts/peanuts/redskin.html
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>>I can easily find jars of unsalted (and lightly salted) dry roasted
>>peanuts. I buy them frequently to eat as a snack. Yum!

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>Lightly.
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>Are you sure you are Dutch? You have on helluva British sense of humour
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Lol, well it's just across the water.