Something of a Candy
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
In colonial America peanuts became something of a candy that people regularly snacked on, that became the case in the south where people boiled them with salt and roasted them. Maya Angelou describes eating bags of peanuts that her family bought from street venders in 1940s St. Louis, Missouri. They would mix them with jelly beans and thus creating “a delicious [sweet and savory] treat.”
Food Historian Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie
