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[Sweet Kitties]

Please tell me why someone would float peanuts in coke. I would probably take a big gulp & get a peanut stuck in my windpipe. I'm a notherner & I don't use coffee syrup.  

[PhilaLady1]

@Sweet Kitties

Maybe you drink it through a straw small enough so the peanuts can't get through? I've seen cold tea with little balls in it, they're tapioca possibly? Not sure.

[Pecky]

Many places sell coffee syrups.  The coffee places uses them to make those fancy coffee drinks.  I have a friend and splashes some in her oatmeal. 

[LTT1]

@sarahpanda @Pecky @PhilaLady1 @Sweet Kitties @amyb 

It seems like when I lived in Bedford, Indiana, (junior high years) the kids there put peanuts in their cokes (bottled coca cola). I did anyway.

My friend she drank Big red Cream Soda (sweet anyone?) 

They called "soda" "pop".

In Texas, where I spent most of my adult years, we had plenty of Tex-Mex (yum) everywhere one looked!

Not so much sushi and bratwurst.

Noe, living in the NorthEast cuisine is much different and my digestive system is busy adjusting!

[Shanus]

@sarahpanda   Ok so after maybe 25 on the forums everyone must know my north/south story. Born in upstate NY and moved to NC with all my aunts and uncles and cousins to build  factories that make chilcren's clothing. I'm a bagel and smoked salmon lover and a plate of BBQ I'm there, too.

Yes, I did dump my pkg. of peanuts in my coke, too. Any southerners hear of Cheerwine soda?

[Sooner]

Sorry this got long but in Oklahoma I grew up on the far west edge of the deep South, and the front edge of cowboy country and the old west.  And where I lived good old boys and dumb kids poured peanute out of the little bag into their R.C. Cola (horrible horrible stuff).

Of course you eat the peanuts.  They float.  You take a slug of R.C. out of the bottle and get a few nuts.  You swallow the R.C. and chomp on the peanuts.  Nobody dies.  

Never had grits where I lived, knew they existed but wasn't sure what they were.  First time I had them in California!

Oklahoma is a magical place!  North part is northern, they cook and eat like Kansas, Ohio, etc. 

The eastern part is Deep South, cattle country and Native American food.  People hunt and fish and garden and love Poke Salad and gather wild onions in the spring.

Mid section?  Very much cowboy (chicken fried steak, lots of beef, bbq brisket and pork ribs, and lots of Tex-Mex, Southwest,  South American and Native American food, mixed with Middle Eastern influences from Syrians and others who settled here and gave us their wonderful cuisine.  

We have swamps and gators in the southeast, hills in the northeast, and high mesa in the north west.  We are the melting pot. 

[katie1859]

It’s immense

Let me count the ways

Bbq
Sauces
Method of cooking
Alcohol
Fresh versus packaged

[PinkyPetunia]

I vaguely remember coffee milk when I was younger and visited Boston a lot.   Milk mixed with coffee syrup.  Same way chocolate milk is made with chocolate syrup.  I think it's a New England thing.  I also remember Moxie soda which is similar to Cheerwine, I think.  

[I am still oxox]

Born and raised NYer, never heard of peanuts in Coke. My mom did buy Coffee syrup which we used to drink with milk and a child and teen. For some reason I think the name was Coffee Time. I just checked and it is still sold on Amazon

[webbgarner1]

@Shanus  Cheerwine was popular with some of my fellow college friends back in 1980 here in NC. But most all of my friends from high school and coworkers after college are diet mt dew or diet coke fans if they drink soda at all.  I have seen putting the peanuts in the coke all of my life even though I did not do it.Barbecue sandwiches with a little cole slaw, yes please.  But even in NC  you will find different versions of barbecue. Some have a tomato base and others a vinegar base . South carolina also has different versions of barbecue, one of them being a mustard base. Its all good.

I guess the one  debate a lot of northeners and southeners have is grits. I love grits and eggs. I really enjoy shrimp. Bit somehow i do not like shrimp and grits togethere which is a popular dish at the coast of NC  and SC.