When I walked into Mimi & Pappaw's house on Sunday to drop off MiniMe for her fourth of July sleepover with the grandparents, the scent of boiled pnuts greeted me. With pnuts in season, and since Pappaw loves boiled pnuts, they had made a great big pot full. Pappaw introduced MiniMe to boiled pnuts not long after she could feed herself. I think he wanted to make sure he had another member of the family hooked on the juicy little morsels so that he'd have a partner to help him convince my mom to make them all summer long.
Mimi makes the pnuts. Pappaw and MiniMe eat them. Out of a big green Tupperware bowl.
Don't ask me why, but every time my mom serves up boiled pnuts, she puts them in the same green Tupperware bowl. It goes beyond tradition to some sort of weird OCD-like thing. So MiniMe learned that when the green bowl comes out, boiled pnuts are served.
Mom told me this weekend that when MiniMe was just a few years old, she opened the refrigerator, grabbed the green bowl out and brought it to her.
"MiMi, I want some pnuts" she said holding up the bowl. Which contained a head of lettuce at the time.
When my mom told her there were no pnuts and that the bowl had lettuce in it, MiniMe replied "But I don't eat lettuce!"
And to this day I still can't get her to eat lettuce. But she hoovered down a pound of boiled pnuts this weekend.
4 comments:
Love the new blog makeover. Looks Daytona Beachish. And I looooooooooooooooove boiled peanuts.
My little girl, about 5 years old at the time, was having a tough time getting in to a boiled peanut once. She finally got frustrated, turned to me and said, "Daddy, can you unzipper it for me?'
She's 21 now, but that cute moment is as fresh as if it just happened.
Don't we all love boiled pnuts! And I wish they came with a zipper - would make it so much easier!
Just filled that silly green bowl again, he is pretty great to be satisfied with pnuts for his birthday.
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