If you haven’t eaten peanuts in a very long time, you might have forgotten how weird they are. Some peanuts are perfect examples of peanuthood, and they look just like an infinity sign and they have two perfect nuts inside.

Other peanuts make you wonder if you shouldn’t stop eating all this obviously genetically-damaged material: the seeds are stunted and tiny, one end is bigger than the other, there are three seeds. So much can go wrong in peanuthood!

And that’s why they SOAK THEM IN SALT! Because as soon as that salty wonder gets anywhere near your mouth, you stop wondering about how hard it apparently is to grow up to be a beautiful example of peanuthood, and instead find yourself at work sucking nosily on salty peanut shells at your desk.