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I got two cans of boiled peanuts at a BBQ place today. (Yes! In Connecticticutland!) The BBQ wasn't all that, but I'll remember that the place is there in case I ever get really desperate. But I'm inordinately excited about my peanuts.

I'm a cracker.

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Wow. That's the one term that, if used in reference to me, is guaranteed to get the speaker busted in the mouth.

Different hot buttons, I guess.

I could sure go for some boiled peanuts, though.

Cracker pride! I'm on a one-man mission to strip the word of its power by embracing it. ;)

Oh, for the love of the gods...

It's GOOD to have words that are fight starters. Saves people the bullshit posturing and goading.

Call me a cracker, it's on. Same for every ethnic gropup. I LIKE the fact that there's one word for pretty much every group that will let us cut through the sensitivity crap and just throw down.

Eh, leave it to me not to be up on things that are good for starting fights.

I dunno. Maybe if someone called me a cracker in a truly derisive fashion, I'd take it differently. But no one ever has, so it's hard to say. I'd probably be so taken aback that I wouldn't say much of anything. Actually, that did happen once--I got into it with some guy in traffic, and he called me a redneck from Mississippi (this was in CT, but I still had my MS plates on the car). I dunno, what am I gonna do, fight him because he thinks all whites from MS are rednecks? That's his preconception that has nothing to do with me personally, so all I can really do is laugh. (But I am aware, of course, that such words DO have power for some people, and that's why I don't throw them around except toward myself.)

I completely get that. I'm WAY past the point of ever looking to get into a fight; that's why I never use flashpoint terms, myself.

I think just about everyone has at least one, though.

I kept seeing signs for boiled peanuts when I was on vacation. Naturally, I thought of you.

Nice! Interesting, though, because I don't remember seeing them much in TN and GA--much more in AL and MS.

You know, I haven't had any boiled peanuts since I've been back. I'm afraid I'd have to hide to eat them, because Mani would eat himself sick on such a delicacy.

Enjoy yer goobers!

Hehe! Aw, c'mon, hook the boy up--put some meat on his bones!

BTW, these boiled peanuts suck dick with teeth. They're hardly soft at all! So I've just ordered a 6-lb. bag of green peanuts off the web. I might have known that I would have to do it myself if I wanted it done right.

Do you like the hot ones? I got spoiled on the plain salty ones my stepmother's uncle used to make; he'd pull them fresh out of the garden and boil them in one of those big crawfish pots with a ton of salt.

*moans*

He's gone now, and I don't know how to do it. You'll have to tell me how they come out.

Ive never had boiled peanuts, Ill take your word on it.

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