Super Goober
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 29-03-2011
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Well, we just returned from a trip to Portales in Eastern New Mexico and while we were there we looked around for the super goober being developed or rather, raised, between Portales and Clovis…..It may be there but I don’t guess you can see it from the highway. I reckon this is the first year for it…We bought some peanuts from the peanut plant there but they were the regular peanuts. I failed to ask the people working there when they expected to have them available. The paper last week said they were being developed, so maybe it is a while away. We go down there a couple or three times a year so we will keep you posted on this super goober….. In the irrigated fields plants were already ankle high or better and a beautiful green. Shows what a little water can do….The country side is still brown though. …..Warm weather has been kinder to the eastern part of the state than it’s been around here.
You might be well advised to watch out for those super goobers. They are probably genetically modified to grow super huge and fed lots of growth hormone. It’s no wonder Americans are so big. My Dad always said that the little goobers were the tastiest. Maybe! He also said that concerning just about everything grown in the garden. Genetically modified super-wonders are the trend of the 21st century. How else can a world containing three billion people be fed?
Yeah, I really like the taste of the present peanuts. We had five big pecans trees when we lived in Carlsbad, with three different varieties. The smallest ones were the best and it was the one that was prefered by Hersheys chocolate. Generally it sold for about 30 cents per pound more than the others…..Little is good but sometimes big is better, I reckon….