Brazil

Category: MBFNs (Most-Boiler-Friendly Nations)

"In India, Nigeria, the Philippines, Indonesia and Salvador, Bahia, boiled peanuts are eaten as street food."

Boiled peanuts: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article (10 August 2009)
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Boiled_peanuts

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"Growing up in Orangeburg, I heard peanuts called ground-nuts, goobers, goober-peas, and pindars, but the dictionaries and usual sources haven't helped much with those words, either. Sir Hans Sloane published a natural history of Jamaica in 1707 in which he described the pindal, or Indian Earth-nut, but the first citation the OED lists for goober is 1887. We know that the words goober and pinda, like okra, gumbo, and yam, are of West African origin. Food writers mostly avoid any mention of boiled peanuts, but Jessica Harris, the eminent scholar of the African diaspora, has found boiled peanuts in Ghana, whence the recipe probably arrived in South Carolina, and in Brazil, whence it arrived in Africa. The peanuts were simply boiled and eaten as a snack in Ghana – or with boiled ears of corn on the cob; in Brazil they were served as part of a Candomblé spiritual ceremony."
http://hoppinjohns.net/peanuts.aspx