Our Investor Relations team fields a high volume of peanut inquiries. The most common are answered below.
540. Give or take.
Glad you asked. By law, a product needs to be at least 90% peanut in order to be called Peanut Butter.
We get this one all the time. Peanuts use roughly 3.2 gallons of water to produce 1 ounce of peanuts. Unlike some wasteful nuts (Almonds) which require 28.7 gallons of water per ounce.
This question keeps us up at night, too. Peanut butter and Banana, which has also been reported to be the favorite of Elvis 'The King' Presley.
Enough to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon.
1.
124.4 ft. Which is more than a yard!
The peanut enthusiasts on the East Coast prefer creamy, while on the West Coast they prefer crunchy peanut butter.
Yes.
No. It's a legume, in the same family as peas and beans. We don't bring this up at parties, and neither should you.
Underground. The plant flowers above ground, then sends a stalk called a "peg" down into the soil, where the peanut develops in private.
Hypogaea means "under the earth." The peanut has never pretended to be anything it isn't.
One day. It gets one day. It makes it count.
No. Peanut flowers pollinate themselves. A self-starter, which is what we look for in all our hires.
Roughly four to five months from planting to harvest. Almond trees take years to produce a single nut. We'll let that sit.
They pressure-wash a sample of pods to strip the outer hull and match the color underneath against a maturity chart. Yes, really.
The plants are flipped upside down and left to dry in rows in the field for several days. Management considers this a well-earned break.
Usually two. Valencia peanuts can hold three to five, which the other varieties find a little much.
Four: Runner, Virginia, Spanish and Valencia. We love them equally. Publicly.
The Runner. Unglamorous, dependable, everywhere. The backbone of the portfolio.
The Virginia. Largest kernels of the four, usually sold roasted in the shell.
New Mexico. Many natural peanut butters start there.
Yes. As a legume, the peanut pulls nitrogen out of the air and fixes it in the soil. Almond trees declined to comment.
South America, where it was cultivated thousands of years before anyone thought to put it in a jar.
Yes. The Lord of Sipán, a Moche ruler buried in Peru about 1,700 years ago, was found wearing a necklace of gold and silver peanuts. Early adopter.
China, then India. The United States is not first. We're working on it.
Georgia, with roughly half the U.S. crop.
The peanut, since 1995. Georgia gets it.
Boiled peanuts, since 2006. South Carolina also gets it.
Dothan, Alabama, home of the National Peanut Festival every fall.
Enterprise, Alabama, in 1919. The boll weevil wiped out the cotton, farmers switched to peanuts, and the town did so well it put up a statue of the weevil.
13 feet. It was built in 1976 for Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign and is still smiling.
At least two. Jimmy Carter ran the family peanut farm in Plains, Georgia, and Thomas Jefferson grew them at Monticello.
The Peanut Brigade.
No. He developed around 300 other uses for the peanut, which is somehow more impressive.
Ten minutes. He spoke for well over an hour. Nobody stopped him. Nobody wanted to.
Marcellus Gilmore Edson, a Montreal pharmacist, in 1884.
Patenting a process to make a peanut paste as a protein source for patients who couldn't chew. Yes, the cereal Kellogg.
Joseph Rosefield, who patented a hydrogenation process in 1922 and later founded Skippy.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1906, by Amedeo Obici and Mario Peruzzi. Pennsylvania has always been peanut country. Spiritually.
A schoolboy named Antonio Gentile, who won a Planters drawing contest in 1916.
It's complicated. He died in a 2020 Super Bowl ad at age 104 and was reborn as Baby Nut. We sent flowers either way.
Goldenberg's Peanut Chews.
Peanut oil. The peanut was in the fuel business before it was cool.
Luck. After six failed Ranger missions, someone passed out peanuts in mission control for Ranger 7 in 1964. It worked. JPL has been eating them at critical moments ever since.
Arachibutyrophobia. Our HR department offers support.
The Kikongo word nguba, carried to the American South by enslaved Africans.
Ground peas, goober peas and pindars. The peanut answers to all of them.
In vaudeville theaters, peanuts were sold to the cheapest seats, and when an act went badly, that's what got thrown.
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game," 1908: "Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack." A binding contract, as far as we're concerned.
Mostly a circus myth. Wild elephants don't eat them and zoos rarely feed them. We've chosen not to take it personally.
Its high smoke point, around 450°F. Fry responsibly.
About half fat and a quarter protein. The rest is ambition.
Kitty litter, fireplace logs, particle board and animal feed. Nothing is wasted. Take note, almonds.
Historically, hogs fattened on peanuts. The peanut's influence runs deeper than you think.
Both peanut butter and jelly were in U.S. military rations. Soldiers put them together, and the sandwich came home a hero.
Yes. Peanut-based therapeutic foods like Plumpy'Nut are used worldwide to treat severe malnutrition in children. Honestly, the most important answer on this page.
January 24. Mark your calendar.
September 13. If you missed it, we noticed.
We love that question around here. Yes, yes they are.
We do. Shareholders are encouraged to wear their position.
Consult The Approved Pantry. Our Compliance Department does not make these decisions lightly.
Fuck 'em.