Anon learns about nuts

Now make him freak out again by telling him peanuts aren't nuts.

Ground beans.
- Well, you can eat them whole too. ;)
- Hummus?
- yeah so basically they're coffee without the water
That’s nuts…… I will see myself out now.
Does he know about cashews?
Alright that's enough shock for one day.

Okay, this may paint me in a bad light, but I was fucking 40 before I learned peanuts grew underground. I ain't Joe Rogan stupid, but dang.

Nobody around here grew them (that I know of), and I never went anywhere that grew them where I would see them.

I assumed they were like any legume, growing above ground like peas or green beans.

But noooooo, they're ground nuts. Which I thought was a different plant entirely.

Out of all my damn family on both sides, visiting (and working on) various farms, nobody grew the damn things.

So, yeah.

I'm all for introducing the saying "I'm not Joe Rogan stupid, but..." into the wider world.
In plenty of languages peanuts are also called 'ground nuts' or 'earth nuts'
- 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.
- The english Wikipedia article mentions that it's sometimes called groundnut in english too.
relevant xkcd:
- I'll never not upvote xkcd
- Does this mean it's valid to make fun of those who don't know obvious things if they're 30 or older?
Yea, hate him or not, he immediately researched his incorrectness. This is not something we should make fun of. Education is how we solve ignorance, even if the topic is nuts.
- Nah I've watched him ask for a claim to be checked, his checker came back saying that it was a true claim when it was total bullshit.
  Dude gets zero credit for half assed - at best - fact checking. Peanuts are not dire, but the dumbass wants to get into life or death real world shit without doing the work. Fuck Rogan.
- I hate you, have my upvote.
I live in SW Ontario which used to be prime tobacco territory as in teenagers used to work tobacco fields in the 90's when I was in HS. Both peanuts and tobacco love a loose sandy soil.
Point being, no one is expected to know how something grows unless they have some knowledge that makes them intimate or they're a fucking nerd. Lol
- cries in nerd-dom with ignorance
I just found out via this green text.
Honestly I think the only reason I kinda realized was because we distinguish peanuts from tree nuts - nuts that do grow on trees. The implication thus that peanuts grow at least not in trees.
Okay, this may paint me in a bad light, but I was fucking 40 before I learned peanuts grew underground. I ain't Joe Rogan stupid, but dang.
I think that's why dudes are magnetized to Joe. Interesting trivia that at no point does the average person need to think about are brought up and it's fascinating.
Unfortunately, Joe also mixes in conspiracy BS. His extreme lack of critical thinking (or thinking with cherry picked data to fit a particular narrative), is why his fans are constantly belittled by people looking in.
No one's criticizing Rogan for not knowing everything. The punchline is how he reacts to new knowledge and how he builds a false narrative to explain it

Thank god, the exact thing I hoped to find. You rock!

To be fair to the dude, I didn't know this either until a teacher taught by teaching us about peanuts. How many of us know much about most of the things we eat?

What do you eat that you don't know about? Barring a lot of newer preservatives food is pretty straightforward.
- Name 5 berries without looking up the definition of a berry, or the comic about it that gets posted every so often.
- It's one of those "you don't know what you don't know" things. I apparently make a lot of assumptions about the things I eat. Some examples of things I was surprised about:
  coffee beans aren't beans, they're closer to cherries
  how pineapples grow
  avocados are apparently berries
  what adult asparagus look like
  And so on. I'm sure there are a ton more, and I'm always excited to find something that really surprises me.

How did we do an entire module on George Washington Carver in first grade, and they never told me peanuts grow in the ground like potatoes

Natürlich! Wo sollen Erdnüsse sonst herkommen, wenn nicht aus der Erde?

Natürlich! Wo sollen Erdnüsse sonst herkommen, wenn nicht aus der Erde?
Sie wachsen in der Scheiße.
Grondboontjies groei in die grond?!
- Klart att jordnötter växer i jorden! Duh!

TIL peanuts don't grow from a tree lol

Peanuts, like coconuts, are not nuts. A person with nut allergy is not necessarily allergic to peanuts (and vice versa). They are 2 separate allergies.
- Coconut is a stone fruit apparently and peanuts are legumes.
- Yup, my dad is allergic to nuts (hazelnuts, brazil nuts, and walnuts), but has no issues with peanuts. I have a cousin who's allergic to peanuts, and IIRC he can eat nuts just fine.

This is fucking spot on. The heavy breathing part had me wheezing

It's fucking gloriously precise. Amazing how some people can convey speech with writing so well.

I grew fennel last year. Have been eating fennel for years and thought we were eating the root part (the white part) and that the green part was the above ground part. No. There is a root underground but the whole fennel sits on top of the soil looking like it will tip over any minute. The white and green parts.

I know food, have worked at groceries, in restaurants, health food stores, I cook. But gardening has taught me new things, and I'm over 50.

Joe Rogan should have stayed this way.

It's the testosterone treatments. Bet you 20 years from now they'll learn it fucks your brain up.
- I have a feeling it’s the regular DMT
I mean he's still a moron. Now he's just better paid.