Mickey’s Jumbo Boiled Peanuts

1 pea: For nematodes only; a blight

Rating: 1 pea on 5-pea-pod scale.
Verdict: Buying boiled peanuts on the sidewalk on the way into a stadium is an iffy proposition. Unless you sample them beforehand, you never know what you’ll get. And you’ll never see that purveyor again. So I was glad to see BPs on the menu at Tech football games. Jumbo nuts, no less! Unfortunately, these are barely passable. Very mealy. Very mushy. Not firm. And they taste industrial. Both times I’ve tried ‘em. Must be hard to make and serve BPs on that scale. Maybe they were frozen too long. I confess that I ate the whole serving. That’s no endorsement, though. Just the only reason to give a 1-pea rating instead of 0.
Season: Football
Hours: Game day, game time
Price: $5
Serving: 20-ounce cup
Notes: From their website: “Precise quality assurance ensure (sic) consistent quality and Flavor.” True that. Consistently awful quality and flavor. These taste suspiciously like another gross Florida brand, Papa John’s, which I found in the grocery.
Proprietor: Mickey Freymuller
Last taste: 2006 11; 2006 09
Nut type: From their website: “Exclusively hand-selected Virginia Jumbo and Fancy peanuts.”
Soak time: n/a
Boil time: n/a
Other: Get them only if you’re desperate. But don’t let BP newbies try them, lest they think all BPs are this dreadful.

US

GA

Atlanta

North Ave NW & Techwood Dr NW

Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field (and, presumably other Southern stadia)

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