Known by many other names such as goobers, goober peas, earth nuts, ground nuts, pindas and pinders - Arachis hypogaea is a sun loving annual that can be grown in the ground or a container.

By the mid-1800s, boiled peanuts — called goober peas — were popular among the South's white populace as well. Nonetheless, up until the Civil War, peanuts were stigmatized as food for ...