Playing with Peanuts

I have to say I feel supremely honored. My fellow amazing blogger Jennifer B. at the Food Allergy Buzz did a post mentioning my strange fascination with odd uses of peanuts and how I find them both fascinating and disturbing at the same time. She had thought of me because she saw a board game called the Count Your Peanuts Math Game.

So, for Jennifer (great name by the way), and because the Holidays are on the way, I have tried to find other unique peanut games.

The Peanut Butter and Jelly Game

Description: The "Make Your Own Sandwich Game" now comes packaged in an adorable tin lunch box! What better way to transport all those yummy PB&J's you just made? Like the classic children's board game, this card game has you build peanut butter and jelly sandwiches using playing cards that depict all the ingredients. Only this time, a giant rubber fly might land right in your sandwich, or an ant might come and carry some of it away! If you can be the first to build 3 complete sandwiches, you'll win the game - and have yourself quite a feast! Game comes with 54 cards, a plastic fly, and game instructions. For 2 - 4 players, Ages 4 and Up.

http://www.areyougame.com/interact/item.asp?itemno=FX4264

The Nutty Elephant Game

Nutty Elephant is a spinning, talking, musical elephant with flopping ears and a trunk that moves up and down. Nutty is always hungry for peanuts. See if he will take one from your hand. As Nutty lifts his trunk up, up goes your peanut. Be the first to get all of your peanuts in Nutty's mouth and you win.
http://www.toysit.com/nutty-elephant-board-game/

The Comments From the Peanut Gallery Game

Description - The card game where your opinion counts. A fast-moving, fast-talking, really nutty game!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FJ2HFC?smid=A16VR4D4EUR82B&tag=priceg9-20&linkCode=asnProduct

Of course the last is my favorite of the group. But if you ever feel like playing with peanuts, here are some options.

Politics in America - The Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue

I unfortunately have caught the nasty virus that is going around, so I am not my usual witty self. However, in honor of the upcoming presidential election, I thought I would share another interesting peanut find -

The Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue

http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/roadside-statues5.htm

"Jimmy Carter Peanut Sculpture: Plains, Georgia
Publications International, Ltd.The Jimmy Carter Peanut Sculpture in Plains, Georgia, commemorates the former president's peanut-farming days.
Created by Dem­ocrats in Indiana for a Jimmy Carter visit during his presidential campaign in 1976, this roadside statue -- a 13-foot peanut -- pays homage to the former president's peanut-farming background and toothy grin.
Its creators subsequently gave it to the president, and it now sits only a stone's throw from his old campaign headquarters in Georgia."

AAAHHHHH - A Peanut Pumpkin

Halloween is scarier than ever for those with food allergies, so I thought I would start off the season with something sure to strike fear into the hearts of those with Peanut Allergies -

The Peanut Pumpkin

Ok, don't scream and cry like I did when I first saw this unique squash. Although the outside looks like peanuts, it is in no way related to a peanut, but instead is a type of squash grown in France called the Galeux d'Eysines

It is an outstanding warty variety of squash with sweet orange flesh that is great in soups. The fruits weigh between 5 and 10 kg. For decorative purposes, it should be harvested before overly mature, because the peanut-like warts continue to grow and will cover the entire fruit. This variety does not keep for long, only about 90 days. It is a very old variety and is mentioned in France, in 1885, in the book “Les Plantes Potagères” of Vilmorin-Andrieux. It is also known as "Brodée Galeuse".

Since Halloween is coming, and I seem to now live in the pumpkin capitol of the world, I thought I would share some other unique pumpkins with you, in case the irony of the peanut pumpkin is not your idea of humor or good times at Halloween. So without further adieu, here are some of my favorite unique pumpkins.

The Hungarian Blue

A blue pumpkin - how cool is that??

Marina di Chioggia

Everyone needs a green bumpy pumpkin


Blue Ballet

Blue and shaped like a pear!

Just in case you want to practice carving your own pumpkin before jumping into the real thing, check out this really cool virtual pumpkin carver here at The Pumpkin Simulator.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/pumpkin_sim.html

And Finally............

AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!! - The scariest pumpkin of all, the Mr. Peanut Pumpkin!!!!!!!

Laughing at Peanuts - Bent Objects Blogspot

While looking up information on circus peanuts, I came across the most amazing blog. http://bentobjects.blogspot.com/ This is a blog by a guy named Terry Border who creates artwork with bent wire and everyday household objects. He is coming out with a book in the Fall of 2009, and I have to say that I will be the first in line to purchase it. The man is a genius, and kept me laughing for hours on end as I admired all his great work.

I love you Terry!!!

Below is my favorite series - The Circus Peanut Tragedy http://bentobjects.blogspot.com/search/label/circus%20peanut%20tragedy

They Have Invented a Peanut Free Peanut!!!! - The Circus Peanut

I did it. After all my research, all my praying, worrying and complaining I have discovered a way to appease all parties I thought un-appeasable. I have uncovered a deep dark secret that was hiding right before our eyes-----The Peanut Free Peanut.

Spangler Circus Peanuts

.
They look like peanuts. They are colored like peanuts. They even have those little groves on them like peanuts do
But miracle upon miracles, I checked the ingredients of these little wonders, and lo and behold - they contain no peanuts.

Ingredients: Sugar, Corn Syrup, Gelatin, Pectin, Artificial Flavor, Color Added (Includes Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Red 40). This product does not contain peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, wheat, or gluten. It has been manufactured on dedicated equipment. http://www.spanglercandy.com/spangler/newspr/nutritionfactspage.php




This is great. We can put them in little bags and serve them on every airplane flight. We can ground them up into a paste like butter, and millions of school kids never have to be deprived of a peanut butter sandwich at school again just because someone could die if they brought their favorite lunch to school. And best of all - they are fat free!!!!


The possibilities are endless!! Thank you circus peanuts!!

Business Can Be a Dangerous Place - The Peanut Business card

Imagine this.

You have a meeting with a new Japanese client that you are trying to make a good impression on. In your hand you have your proposal and business cards all ready to distribute. After the introductions your new colleagues hand you their unusual new business cards, and you recoil in horror, unsure of what to do. Why the fear you ask, well, these business cards are the newest trend in unique promotion, they are laser printed PEANUTS.

http://www.arigatou3.com/english/index.htm

A Japanese company named Arigatou is using high grade CO2 laser engraving technology to print logos, names and telephone numbers on organic materials like beans, rice and peanuts.
These “Taberu Me” cards cost a bit more than regular cards, a set of 150 costs 5,800 yen (around $50). Great, peanut business cards....what will they think of next.

So of course this got me started on thinking on other alternatives for anyone thinking of investing in the Peanut business cards. (Please don't.......)

The Origami Business Card

Business Card for a map company

The stretchy business card for a personal trainer.

A business card that grows with you.