Farmer grows heart-shaped peanuts for Valentine's Day

by Sarah J. Gim (Subscribe to Sarah J. Gim's posts)
Posted Jan 19th 2008 8:04PM
Filed under: Farming, Grains, Nuts/seeds, Food Oddities

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Uh. Yeap, that definitely look like a heart-shaped peanut to us.

However, we highly doubt that the tiny heart-shaped peanut was grown specifically for Valentine's Day, as the farmer claims. It seems to us that, like finding Jesus, Mary, and Elvis on toast, the heart-shape is just a natural, one-time anomaly that can't be reproduced by the farmer. We'd be interested to see the heart-shaped peanut's siblings from the same plant.

With all the fancy schmancy genetic engineering they can do nowadays, scientists could probably design a plant that grows heart-shaped nuts, but not for this Valentine's Day.

[via: yumsugar]

Tags: farming, heart, heart-shaped peanut, hearts, peanuts, valentines day

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1-19-2008 @ 8:35PM

Laine Mitchell said...

Don't you think he probably just restricted the growth of the nutshell? I mean, you don't have to genetically engineer friuts to take on funny shapes. Disney grows Mickey Mouse-shaped tomatoes by placing the young tomatoes, on the vine, inside Mickey Mouse molds. Then the tomato grows into the mold. It's not rocket science, so your skepticism seems misplaced.

1-20-2008 @ 12:34AM

John said...

Given that peanuts grow below the soil, I doubt he restricted the growth of the nut in a mold.

1-20-2008 @ 11:31AM

JBJJ48 said...

AIN'T THT CUTE!!

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