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Review: Lightly Salted Peanuts, by Delta Airlines

Rob Beschizza at 5:02 pm Mon, Mar 19, 2012

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I enjoyed my lightly peanutted salt.

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  • http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

    Gah!!! Makes me all kinds of thirsty just looking at it.

  • Shinkuhadoken

    I’m curious to see if I could spot the peanuts at all in their regular packet of salted peanuts.

  • Bink Binkerson

    They like their oversalted food in Jeebusland.

  • http://twitter.com/joeybladb joe k.

    Ahh just like Delta, the airline whose motto used to be the non-ironic: “Delta gets you there!”

    • http://www.tumbleweed.net/ tyger11

      “Delta gets you somewhere!*”

      * Note: Delta assumes no responsibility for actual destination.

      • https://www.facebook.com/rgovrebo B. Peasant

        That should be Ryanair’s motto.

  • http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Mari Lwyd

    The peanuts are lightly salted. It’s the salt that’s heavily salted.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UWGIBYZO4C5NZZHCQTGDYON7UA yt

    It’s a misprint. Should read: Lightly Peanut’d Salt

  • Jason Sutor

    I’ve had them before and that powder isn’t all salt. Its some sort of peanut dust. Either some sort of cornstarch or the peanuts get a good rubbing in the package. They aren’t that salty. On the other hand they are a nightmare to anyone with a peanut allergy since people around them eating them can’t help but get peanuty dust everywhere.

  • http://www.tumbleweed.net/ tyger11

    * Contents may transmutate during shipping.

  • http://www.tumbleweed.net/ tyger11

    * Do not taunt lightly salted peanuts.

  • bcsizemo

    I just eat the peanuts and snort the dust that’s left over.  Man what a rush!

  • awjt

    I’d hate to see the heavily salted ones.

  • Anaerin

    Warning: Packet may contain nut traces.

  • Donald Petersen

    What’s with the mahogany tray/table?  Do you fly Plutocrat Class?

  • Guest

    Just what we need, packets of white powdery substance on airplanes. Thanks Delta. 

  • MikeKStar

    Wait…You got peanuts?!  All I get on my air carrier is the used gum stuck to the armrest.

  • MooseDesign

    I wonder what the delta is between that and salted peanuts.

    • http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

      I see what you did there.

  • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

    Two peanuts were walking through the park. And one was assaulted. It happened so many times, that they took all the assaulted ones and stuck them in a bag and gave them to Rob, at which point the joke wasn’t even grammatical.

  • Daemonworks

    That’s actually more dangerous than half the stuff the TSA won’t let you take on a plane.

  • Alan Olsen

    “That was the saltiest thing I ever ate and I once ate a bowl of salt!” – Fry

  • Ashley Yakeley

    It’s for rehydration in the dry cabin air. Eat the peanuts, drink some orange juice and some water.

  • Gabriel Meister

    “Lightly” obviously refers to the albedo — I mean, it *is* pretty bright.

    • http://twitter.com/embersandstars Embers and Stars

      I came here for the albedo joke – not disappointed.

  • TheMudshark

    Refreshing beverages can be purchased from your flight attendants for the low price of 6$. If you happen to not carry US currency at this time we will provide complementary stationary for a farewell letter. Postage not included.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=1118134806 Doc_S

    It’s for the matter transference beam. You’d have lost some salt and protein.

  • schrutzki

    Well, you also might like Turkish Airlines’ approach: They hand out small bags of hazelnuts (unsalted). Small print on the bag reads: Caution, may contain traces of nuts.

  • GreatGrey

    Hah, I rode Delta the other day from Miami – Atlanta – Cincinnati and I thought about documenting the nuts like Rob did here.

    A whopping 0.4 ounces.

  • http://www.lightning-rose.com/ LightningRose

    At least there’s a trace of peanuts. Far better than the pretzel/cracker/chexmix snacks I’ve had on other airlines.

  • http://marjaerwin.livejournal.com/ Marja Erwin

    Soon, those airlines which provide snacks will provide an unidentifiable combination of pork, beef, cheese, mayonaise, mixed nuts, gluten supplements, and potassium salts. For a fee one may buy cut-rate fugu.

    • GrumpySteen

      > an unidentifiable combination of pork, beef, cheese, mayonnaise, mixed nuts, gluten supplements, and potassium salts

      That sounds better than what they usually serve.

      • http://marjaerwin.livejournal.com/ Marja Erwin

        It depends what you can eat, doesn’t it? I haven’t flown in years, but the airlines were already well on the way to food which no one could eat.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Isn’t that the recipe for salmagundi?

  • CLamb

    That must be light salt in the picture.