Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas! It lacks the stirring power of the Battle Cry of Freedom. It's not as enduring as When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As far as Civil War songs go ...

The seminal Detroit cowpunk band Goober and the Peas was nervous that, after 15 years away from the music scene, no one would show up at its Saturday reunion gig at St. Andrew’s Hall.

Transmusicales Festival in France/Switzerland tour. Although our tour manager-driver explained he had to smoke "jazz cigarettes" to stay awake, and Goob almost died when the confused crowd did the ...

Peanut butter is my happy place. Pretty much every carb-based foodstuff and non-citrus fruit can be improved by a squirt of goober peas nut butter. Everyone knows it's a loose sweet and creamy ...

Those trying times were set to a jaunty tune in the 1866 song “Goober Peas” that not only tips a hat to the Georgia militia’s love of peanuts, but spread the gospel of goober-eating around ...

Before 1930, the lowly goober pea, now known as the peanut, was used for little more than food for pigs. Today, it’s an extremely valuable crop with hundreds of uses. The potential was always ...

Recently, I read a Civil War diary in which the author described a group of Confederate soldiers sitting by a road singing a popular folk song titled, “Goober Peas.” “Goodness, how delicious ...

As a child, I had an album of American folk songs that included a Civil War-era classic called “Goober Peas.” I didn’t know what the title meant, but I knew it was about eating something ...