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Peanut’s For the Good Life!
Welcome to & The SC Peanut Party!
Welcome to the 27th SC Peanut Party! This year Palmetto Amusements brings us new rides including a Ferris wheel, a glass fun house, and a Spin-Master ride. Make sure you come listen to Friday evening’s entertainment featuring on stage #1 Mattie Phifer’s 1st appearance in Pelion. On Saturday evening Steel Justice returns and on stage #2 we are featuring the barbershop group The Main Street Harmonizers. We have something for everyone - a Craft Show, Concessions and Souvenirs, Parade, Library Book Sale, Cooking Contest, Softball Tournament, Tractor Show, our very own home grown Idol Competition and, of course, Peanuts! The
South Carolina Peanut Party has been going nuts for 27 years. The Peanut
Party began on Please
note: Our insurance does not allow pets or personal golf carts on the Peanut
Party grounds. Peanut Party Beginnings Legend
has it that Pelion farmers have been producing and harvesting peanuts for
over a hundred years. For years, after the peanuts were gathered, the main
social event of the fall was a “peanut-boil” at homes in the community.
This inspired the locals to take the gatherings one step further, they
organized as the Pelion Ruritans, and later joined the community to establish
the Peanut Party. The Pelion Ruritan club will celebrate its 60th year of
Community Service to the Pelion community on The Peanut Party began in 1981 as a project to build a medical facility for the community of Pelion and hopefully attract a physician(s) to hang a shingle in our community. Town officials, community and Ruritan members met at the corner of Pine and Main Streets in Mr. D.F. Shumperts front yard (now the location of the gas station) for the first Pelion Peanut Party. The SC Peanut Board and Cromer’s Peanuts were also involved in this momentous endeavor. At this first Peanut Boil approximately 25 bushels of peanuts were washed, and washed, and washed, and finally clean enough to be boiled. There were no large pots as we now have to boil them in and any thing that could be found to hold peanuts was used. Members of the club even boiled them at home and brought them to Mr. Shumperts yard for the Ruritan club to sell as they began the project of building what we now know as B-L
Family Practice located at Today many things have changed. Up to 130 bushels of peanuts are boiled in huge pots near the community center beginning the afternoon prior to the party and throughout the night by the Ruritan club member and their families. But one thing remains the same - the Ruritan club continues it’s commitment to Fellowship, Goodwill, and Community Service. [click here for History of Pelion] Follow the Link to find out How to Boil Peanuts… http://home.infionline.net/~guntis/Articles/BoilingPeanutsatHome.html Goober
Fast Facts * 2006 - On May 1, 2006, Gov. Mark Sanford came to York County and officially
signed into law, H.4585, to make the boiled
peanut South Carolina's official state snack food. Tom Stanford, a *
A Spanish explorer discovered peanuts
in *
When Africans were brought to * Around 1900, equipment was invented for planting, cultivating, harvesting and picking peanuts from the plants, and for shelling and cleaning the kernels. With these mechanical aids, peanuts rapidly came into demand for oil, roasted and salted nuts, peanut butter and candy. George Washington Carver began his research into peanuts in 1903 at Tuskegee Institute. This research led to the development of over 300 uses of the Peanut including soap, shampoo, cheese, mayonnaise, ice cream, medicine, ink, bleach, axle grease, and a wonderful snack. * The talented botanist recognized the value of the peanut as a cash crop and proposed that peanuts be planted as a rotation crop in the Southeast cotton-growing areas where the boll weevil insect threatened the regions' agricultural base. Farmers listened and the face of southern farming was changed forever. For his work in promoting its cultivation and consumption, Carver is considered the father of the peanut industry. * The spread of peanuts in the * During the Civil War, when troops of the
South were almost without food, the easily- grown peanut became a very
important staple. The confederate soldier didn’t know much about vitamins,
but he did know that a supply of peanuts in his pocket helped him to carry
out his duties without the gnawing pangs of hunger. Union soldiers came to
appreciate peanuts and came home with a taste for the Confederate’s
“goober peas”. Roasting peanuts in a campfire inspired at least
one Civil War song folksong, “Eating Goober Peas”: Sitting by the roadside on a summer day, Chatting with my messmates, passing the time away, Lying in the shadow underneath the trees, Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas! Peas! Peas! Peas! Peas! Eating goober peas! Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas! from
the song "Goober Peas" - written in 1866 with
words by A. Pindar and music by P. Nutt * In 1870 P.T. Barnum’s circus introduced "HOT ROASTED PEANUTS". As his circus wagons traveled from city to city the Roasted Peanut became famous, and began showing up in ballparks and movie theaters. Remember when the cheap theater seats were called "P-Nut Galleries"? * Peanuts are a legume not a nut. * One pound of raw, shelled peanuts gives you as much protein as you get in two pounds of sirloin steak or 4 quarts of milk. * Peanut butter was developed in 1890 by a * Old-timers like to eat boiled peanuts by
dropping the shelled peanuts into a bottle of cold RC Cola and gulp down the
combo. Southerners will tell you boiled peanuts should always be accompanied
by a beer, sweet tea, or a soft drink. Traditionally they are eaten outside
where it doesn't matter if wet shells are tossed or spit on the ground. * Boiled peanuts are a traditional snack in
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