{"id":5437,"date":"2024-06-15T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T10:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2024-06-15T10:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T10:55:25","slug":"southern-tradition-why-people-in-the-south-are-adding-peanuts-to-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=5437","title":{"rendered":"Southern Tradition: Why People in the South Are Adding Peanuts to Coke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Southern culinary culture, along with classics like fried chicken and pecan pie, there is a strange tradition: popping peanuts in cola. According to historian Rick McDaniel, this practice dates back to the 1920s, when shelled peanuts were sold alongside bottled Coca-Cola in rural stores. Workers began to combine them, perhaps to avoid handling every peanut with dirty hands they worked with.<\/p>\n<p>Another theory links it to road trips. With regular manual transmission cars, placing peanuts in coke bottles is allowed for a hands-free snack. For the real experience, use regular Coke with salted peanuts, preferably in a glass bottle for enhanced flavor. Despite its strangeness, this Southern custom has been around for generations, offering a unique blend of sweet and salty that many find surprisingly enjoyable.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/frfds2-300x229-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5438\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"684f6003e199ca137b09540a661b4c2d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M940464ScriptRootC1583286\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/k\/o\/kohajone.press.1583286.js\" async>\r\n<\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Southern culinary culture, along with classics like fried chicken and pecan pie, there is a strange tradition: popping peanuts in cola. According to historian Rick McDaniel,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5440,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions\/5440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}