Source of the circus peanut

I couldn’t tell when I started enjoying circus peanuts, the quaint sugar candy shaped like a giant, orange peanut. I didn’t like them when I was a kid, but now I love them. You can OD on circus peanuts very fast, but in moderation they hit spot nicely. Circus peanuts is yet another candy that I can enjoy but nobody else does - thus a candy I can take to work without having to worry about people taking them or me even needing to offer them. Black jelly beans and Good & Plenty being the other candies.

We were at Wal-mart with Mr. and Mrs. Thee and they had a good deal on a HUGE bag of circus peanuts. Our mission was to find the game Sequence, which I have never played, but instead I ended up with a one pound bag of circus peanuts, a Optimus Prime Mr. Potato Head, four boxes of movie theatre candy, and a sink strainer. It was $20 I hadn’t intended on spending, but $20 well spent all the same.

Then while playing cards it was asked what circus peanuts are made of, which received a simple answer: sugar

Then Thee came up with a theory that I wouldn’t doubt is actually true. As he explained, circus peanuts are just melted down cotton candy. You know how you put cotton candy in your mouth and it dissolves down into it a bean of pure sugar? Well, circus peanuts are just that, only shaped like a peanut. So now I’m convinced that the circus peanut factory and the cotton factory are the same place. But there is one conveyer belt that takes the cotton candy to a hair dryer on a string. The hair dryer melts down the cotton candy into a glob of sugar which is then poured into a peanut mold. Then a second later out comes a circus peanut.

If only Mr. Rogers had gone to the circus peanut factory instead of the rain coat factory.