• ThoGot
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    2 months ago

    In plenty of languages peanuts are also called ‘ground nuts’ or ‘earth nuts’

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      Ouch, I had to think about what it’s in my motherlanguage and it’s actually earth nuts (Erdnüsse in German).

      If you had asked me how they grow it would have been a 50/50 if I got it wrong.

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      The english Wikipedia article mentions that it’s sometimes called groundnut in english too.