Gouber pea. Ground nut. Ground pea. Earth-nut. Pindar nut. Ground bean. The peanut had a legion of names before the war; today, only "goober" reminds us of that tasty, unpretentious legume's long ...

A goober pea by any other name is a peanut, ground pea or ground nut. We in the South grow up eating them mostly boiled. Or, as we like to pronounce it, "bohld." It's shorter, ...

A s 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 ...

These goober peas exploded in popularity after the Civil War, and it took until the early 1900s for boiled peanuts to be featured in the news.

In advance of their upcoming gig, Goober & the Peas sound off on road troubles By Travis R. Wright Jul 27, 2011 at 12:00 am ...

Goober & the Peas will bring their special brand of "cowpunk" to Metro Times' Pig & Whiskey event on Saturday, July 19. (Never heard of ...

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. “There ...

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.

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 ...

Confederate soldiers even sang about “goober peas” – boiled peanuts – in a popular wartime ditty. Beyond the rural South, however, ...