Post #165727 by cynfulcynner on Tue, Jun 14, 2005 4:56 PM

Here's the dope on circus peanuts from Uncle Cecil himself:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_222b.html

"I think they are the horror that is the circus, that flat tin taste of fear and clowns and little lost children amid the cotton candy stink and the piles of elephant doo-doo and the clamor of the midway and the tinny sound of the circus band endlessly wheezing its way through yet another soulless circus fanfare."