My sister married a guy from San Francisco. (And yes, he's straight.)
We grew up eating boiled peanuts. If you have ever eaten a boiled peanut, you either think they are the best salty snack you have ever eaten, or they are the most disgusting, slimy abomination ever concocted. But this blog is not about the tastiness of the boiled peanut, it's about how you say "boiled peanut."
This is a Southern phonetics lesson.
When my sister first told her husband about boiled peanuts, he thought she was saying "bald" peanuts. Because (you already know this if you are from the South) you cannot call them "boyled" peanuts. That would be soooooo wrong.
The way I always heard it, and I guess say it, is "bawled" peanuts. I don't know where he got "bald" peanuts from. Neither Holly nor I are that ignorant.
How about some "bald raisin'" (preferably in the form of a cookie) Do you do that where your from?
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