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Goobers

down south we love our goobers salt em up and set to roast eat em by the dozens drink em in our cokes fix em fancy in deserts peanut butter pie big and small all size and sorts eat em till the day we die granny loves to cook em goobers in down home green beans adds a bit of crunchiness to the sunday dinner scene with newspapers set out on the floor in front of television sets cracking shells like walker texas ranger does good for nothing yankee heads buy em hot and buy em boiled along the roadside stand spilling goober juices all over the cars naugahyde rotan finger licking greasy from out a planters can down south we love our goobers like you done heard me said

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Date: 9/5/2016 7:56:00 PM
Personally, I'm a yankee transplant but love the shelled salted roasted ones the best...just bought 3 bags of them yesterday! Cute, fun and unique poem Mike!:)
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Date: 9/5/2016 4:33:00 PM
Cute write, Mike! My husband loves boiled peanuts. He can have them.Ha ha! Blessings!
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