Favourite Peanuts?

The Mighty Quinn

I love chomping through some peanuts as a snack, or at busy times as a meal in itself.

However, there's a huge quality difference between brands. What gives? Are there different varieties of peanut we eat, is it how they're roasted, is it the quality of the seasoning?

The Dunnes Stores dry roasted peanuts are like chewing bullets.



These Manhattan ones are quite good



The Lidl chili flavoured and honey flavoured ones are decent, good value ones



But the Lidl dry roasted ones are as bad as the Dunnes ones. I dunno, maybe it's the powder mix but the peanuts themselves taste poor.



These little beauties you can get in some bars, they're the finest a man can eat. Balsamic vinegar flavoured nuts. Unreal.



And on the topic of vinegary ones, of course KP Nuts are champs at this stuff, and these are a great nut.



As of course are the salted and dry roasted KP nuts, quality stuff, but expensive. They dont' come cheap.





The honey roast variety, which I've only gotten in a tub, but I believe are available in a packet, are another beauty.



However, for me, the most enjoyable peanut could possibly be the Tesco own brand salt and vinegar flavoured;




So boards, tell me, what are your favourite peanut brand, flavour?

holly_johnson

I chomped my way through half a bag of the Manhattan dry roasted last night. Top class peanuts. Tesco own brand are muck in my opinion, all salt and no flavour.

EmmetSpiceland

You should ask Crisp Guy to do a “tournament” of the best peanut.

Manhattan popcorn would probably win, though.

EmmetSpiceland

holly_johnson wrote: »

I chomped my way through half a bag of the Manhattan dry roasted last night. Top class peanuts. Tesco own brand are muck in my opinion, all salt and no flavour.

The Manhattan ones are too small.

Mr. CooL ICE

The Mighty Quinn asking the important questions.

Agree about Manhattan - anaphylactic heroin. Another handful is never enough

Cee-Jay-Cee

KP salt and vinegar are my firm favourite! I haven’t tried Tesco’s S&V but will do next time I’m in.

My favourite treat on a Friday or Saturday night is a giant HB Cornetto and a bag of KP S&V peanuts poured into a bowl and dip the cornetto in to them before each bite. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

hellsing101

Walkers chilli nuts are nice but dont know how much nut is actually in those compared to coating.

Gregor Samsa

Manhattan Salted Peanuts. I find dry roasted too, eh, dry. And any of this messing about with honey or lemon chili is just hipster nonsense.

ShyMets

No favorite. I'm nuts about them all

Thelonious Monk

Manhattan chilli peanuts, Finglas' finest

jam_mac_jam

Manhattan are lovely. Definitely the nicest.
The lidl salted are quite nice but I can't buy big bags or I will eat the whole bag.

COVID

Not being an inverted snob here, but Dealz do a surprisingly good peanut.

Fresh-tasting, crunchy and never over-salted.

Great value at €1.50 for a large bag that claims to contain approximately ten servings, so you'll eat the bag in two sittings.

Oh, and spoiler alert, there's even a terrible Christmas-cracker type joke on the pack:

''Two peanuts were walking down the road........''







''One was a salted''.

SEPT 23 1989

the Manhattan ones on the cardboard behind the bar

murpho999

Who here remembers when the only Dry Roasted in pubs were Planters?

They're not in Ireland any more it seems. Recently sold by Kraft in US.

Day Lewin

Was always a Pete's fan. Pete's peanuts!

COVID

Candy coated?!

You cannot be serious.:(

ohnonotgmail

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

KP salt and vinegar are my firm favourite! I haven’t tried Tesco’s S&V but will do next time I’m in.

My favourite treat on a Friday or Saturday night is a giant HB Cornetto and a bag of KP S&V peanuts poured into a bowl and dip the cornetto in to them before each bite. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

I can't decide if that is the greatest thing I have ever read or the worst.

JustAThought

Manhattan giant bag of D R but - has anyone tried the big bag of Tesco salted mixed nuts? Peanuts in them are gritty with salt (yum) but the walnuts in them (also salted) are like little pieces of heaven hidden in a bag. You’ve never had anything like them before.

Kermit.de.frog

Supervalu own brand peanuts only cost a yoyo for 300g bag and they are ok for that price imo.

KP is clear winner all day for quality though.

ablelocks

biko

KPs original but mainly because that's what they have in my local shop.

Earthhorse

The Walkers Sensations ones are an underrated gem but hard to find.

I've only ever seen them in Tesco on Baggot Street.

Gruffalux

Peanuts are annoying. Roasted cashews with cracked black pepper are not annoying.

Surreptitious

KP dry roasted or Lidl honey roasted.

fonecrusher1

Prefer crips myself. And yes I mean't crips.

jippo nolan

A packet of Manhattan mixed with a packet of Tayto crips!

GreeBo

I would have to say, packaging.

ElJaguar

Manhattan salted peanuts.

HeidiHeidi

jippo nolan wrote: »

A packet of Manhattan mixed with a packet of Tayto crips!

This is the finest snack EVER!!!


Best soakage for a creamy pint of Guinness (remember them )

Montage of Feck

They're not even real nuts ffs!

HeidiHeidi

Also, Salt'n'Vinegar peanuts??



Really???

I didn't even know they were a thing!

EmmetSpiceland

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Also, Salt'n'Vinegar peanuts??



Really???

I didn't even know they were a thing!

They’re pretty great but highly addictive. Be careful out there.

branie2

Dry roasted

Funkfield

Planters Dry Roasted.

There is nothing else like them.

A lot of the rest are decent in their own way, but honestly, when you really look at it, it's always been Planters.

Why are we fighting? C'mon together, comrades, brothers. We all like nuts. Except the crisps guy. So let's just enjoy nuts. I'm actually allergic to peanuts.

murpho999

Funkfield wrote: »

Planters Dry Roasted.

There is nothing else like them.

A lot of the rest are decent in their own way, but honestly, when you really look at it, it's always been Planters.

Why are we fighting? C'mon together, comrades, brothers. We all like nuts. Except the crisps guy. So let's just enjoy nuts. I'm actually allergic to peanuts.

Where are you getting Planters?

Haven't seen them in Ireland for years.

Manhattan's seems to be no 1 here.

HeidiHeidi

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Also, Salt'n'Vinegar peanuts??



Really???

I didn't even know they were a thing!

Couldn't resist getting a pack of these today.


No, no, no, no!!!


They're all kinds of wrong


Peanuts are made for salt, and that is simply that!

JupiterKid

Manhattan. No contest.

JJayoo

Salt and vinegar peanuts are great

ohnonotgmail

currently munching on KP salted. very acceptable

waxmelts2000

I buy my nuts from Roger hot nuts in Wicklow, my favourite are the salted roasted followed by the balsamic vinegar! yummy
50 x 50g for around E40 and delivered by an post, they also stock bars and Ikg hot nuts! Not affiliated, I have to ration myself to one bag a night

https://rogershotnuts.com

Sheep Shagger

Aldi popcorn the bagged stuff) is very cinema like....

EmmetSpiceland

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Couldn't resist getting a pack of these today.

No, no, no, no!!!

They're all kinds of wrong

Peanuts are made for salt, and that is simply that!

Well. That’s the last time I recommend lovely salt and vinegar peanuts to a stranger online. More for me.

HeidiHeidi

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Well. That’s the last time I recommend lovely salt and vinegar peanuts to a stranger online. More for me.

If I thought you were anywhere nearby, I'd happily arrange to donate the rest of the bag to a clearly very worthy cause!

silver2020

Looks like the score is Manhattan 90 - the rest combined 10

Manhattan by a mile. a little more expensive, but worth every cent. And over 50 jobs in Fingerless too according to google

Surreptitious

I forgot about the coated crunchy hot nuts you get in some cinemas. Yummy

EmmetSpiceland

Surreptitious wrote: »

I forgot about the coated crunchy hot nuts you get in some cinemas. Yummy

The ones you get in that scaldy little tub in some pubs?

COVID

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

The ones you get in that scaldy little tub in some pubs?

What's a 'pub'?

JJayoo

waxmelts2000 wrote: »

I buy my nuts from Roger hot nuts in Wicklow, my favourite are the salted roasted followed by the balsamic vinegar! yummy
50 x 50g for around E40 and delivered by an post, they also stock bars and Ikg hot nuts! Not affiliated, I have to ration myself to one bag a night

https://rogershotnuts.com

So I just shoot off an email to Rodger saying I want his hot nuts in my mouth?

Surreptitious

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

The ones you get in that scaldy little tub in some pubs?

I only ever got them in cinemas. I'm only 17 so am too young to drink.

COVID

Surreptitious wrote: »

I only ever got them in cinemas. I'm only 17 so am too young to drink.

What's 'drink'?

Surreptitious

COVID wrote: »

What's 'drink'?

It's a noun and a verb. But since I'm only 17 my teacher hasn't told me anymore about it.