"I want more money or I'll let your
goobers go stale," he told Walter Benson, director of concessions at the Houston park.
Here in North America the annual peanut species grown for its nuts, Arachis hypogaea, needs plenty of warm weather, but you don't have to live in Georgia to grow great
goobers. In southern Ontario, Ernie and Nancy Racz have been growing peanuts as a cash crop since 1982.
As a legume and close cousin to black-eyed peas,
goobers are a gold mine of nutrients.
'Honey, them
goobers has been in my purse a week if they's been in it a day.
He seems unaware of any irony to his participation in this world, and something akin to ingenuousness colors his purchase of Chuckles, a Clark bar, and
Goobers to eat during his autoerotic indulgence.
Mired in the polls, Bob Dole had created a midsummer media event out of his wife's sixtieth birthday by treating her to a box of
Goobers, a basket of popcorn, and a matinee showing of Independence Day in a nearly empty Century City cinema.
"We've got Hoppin' John's, Po' Boys, Georgia Dogs, Corn Dogs, Brunswich Stew, Potlikker,
Goobers Fajitas and Swamp Gravy," said the man at a window helpfully.
Every so often some elite guy chugs by in a motor vehicle, windows rolled up tight, and people fall all over themselves to either genuflect before him or lay
goobers on his windshield.
Kids in Tanzania call them karangas; in the Congo, they're
goobers. In China, they're called wa'sung, and British kids call them groundnuts.
Peanuts, which are sometimes known as
goobers or
goober peas, from the African word "nguba."
To meet this desire and the growing upscale tastes of consumers, the company has changed the size of its candy bars and given familiar products like Chunky,
Goobers, Raisinets and Oh Henry!
