So I was at my local Wal-Mart the other day, buying canned sweet potatoes to make sweet potato casserole for Thanksgiving dinner. My parents were born and raised in NE Arkansas, moving to Seattle in 1950, so we had a lot of classic Southern dishes when I was a kid. I have noticed that Wal-Mart is a good place to go for some foods that are usually found only in the South. On the shelf right above the sweet potatoes was a can of green boiled peanuts. Thanks to my reading of the Civil War and other sources, I knew that green boiled peanuts are very popular in the South. So I bought a can of them. My wife, who spent a lot of time in southern Georgia with her first husband's family, only chuckled when she saw the can on the kitchen counter.
I opened the can and the peanuts in the shell were packed in brine. So I shelled one of the peanuts and popped the soggy nut kernels into my mouth. My first thought was that I was eating a rehydrated dried green pea, and it was salty and vegetal. Just to make sure that I had not gotten a bad one, I ate four more peanuts. They all tasted the same, and I did not like them. There was no peanut flavor to them at all. My wife tried one, told me that she had them in Georgia, and this is how they were supposed to taste, and she did not like them either.
So I am guessing that this is an acquired taste.