People from the South are putting peanuts in Coke.
Fried chicken and pecan pie are two iconic dishes in Southern cuisine. Surprisingly, one surviving tradition sticks out: mixing peanuts into Coke. Rick McDaniel, a historian, dates this tradition back to the 1920s. Shelled peanuts were offered alongside bottled Coke in country stores, encouraging workers to combine them for practical purposes. According to McDaniel, “Many…
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