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   From: cewhite3@mindspring.com   
      
   "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of Tantra-Hammock &   
   the Stationary Bicycle to burn the calories"    
   wrote in message   
   news:3e5e144c-f0f6-471b-b767-e011e4ef186b@x25g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...   
   > I'm eating these peanuts in the shell, and to my surprise it has an   
   > American flag on the bag... It has been a long time I have seen that   
   > "Proudly made America" still seen a few years ago. I assume nowadays   
   > things are "Proudly made in China" for the proud Americans who shop at   
   > Walmart.   
   >   
   > Anyway that while we still have peanuts grown and toasted in America   
   > (not sure if they were toasted here), we have reason for hope... the   
   > Peanuts Revolution. We all can be happy with peanuts!   
      
   I used to grow peanuts myself. For the first time in at least 60 years no   
   peanuts were grown on my farm.   
      
   China ia actually a major peanut producer, but few peanuts are imported to   
   the US from China. Peanuts that are exported tend to come from Africa or   
   Israel. When I was in the peanut buisness, my main competitors were other US   
   farmers. In my area we grow the large seeded type peanuts that are often   
   sold salted in the shell. These types of peanuts used to be mostly grown in   
   the North Eastern NC and Souteastern VA and are usually referred to as   
   Virginia Type Peanuts. Peanuts from these areas were mostly used for the   
   salted in shell market and for large cocktail peanuts. Other parts of the   
   country grow the smaller runner type peanuts. These runner peanuts were   
   mostly used to make peanut butter and crushed for peanut oil. And they   
   mostly were cheaper and of lower quality (my opinion). However, in recent   
   years peanut shellers (think Planters) have been using the smaller, lower   
   quality, runner peanuts for almost everything but the salted in shell   
   market. I bought a bag of shelled Planters peanuts out of a machine   
   yesterday and they were so crappy I could hardly believe Planter would sell   
   them. In my 24 years of raising peanuts, I never produced anything that   
   crappy.   
      
   Ed   
      
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