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The monocled monster is a nut-swallowing cannibal. Of course, the accolades were already rolling in. The masses were catching on. Introduced in as a mascot for snack brand Planters, Mr. Peanut has lived for a century as a slave-trading peanut aristocrat, selling his fellow legumes to a gruesome death by mastication.
Born with a monocle and top hat, Mr. Peanut was a capitalist before he knew he was gay. During World War II, he made a fortune as the face of one of the leading mass-market salted nut brands, when he appeared on war brochures and promoted savings stamps. He also snagged his first-ever sidekick: Benson, a short, cute, one-nut peanut.
Peanut needed a PR win, something to soften his image and give him mass appeal in a post-Occupy Wall Street world. You can tell. He even straddled a pair of them — the shell-shaped NUTmobile — as early as , flaunting his power over the peanut masses in the midst of the Depression.
Update: He is now dead. Vintage Planters advertisements show a grinning Mr. Peanut surrounded by children, laughing as he eats common peanuts from a bag. Planters representatives denied to the Times that Benson and Mr. For decades, Mr. Peanut continued to crush the backs and shells of prole peanuts.
Peanut received the first of his many signature Times Square billboards in Then, in , writer and game designer Cohen Edenfield exposed the snack daddy on Twitter. Time for damage control. Like most gays, Mr. Peanut has gone through his fair share of makeovers. He found his voice for the first time, courtesy of Robert Downey Jr.
He re-dyed his shell brown for an important TV commercial and began sporting a gray flannel suit. Out and proud or not, Mr. Peanut lived for a century as a slave-trading aristocrat, selling his fellow legumes to a gruesome death by mastication. The Problematic Legacy of Mr.
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Born black-and-white, he first dyed his shell brown in and went blonde in , as is gay tradition. Theory — Mr. The Hannibal Lechter of the peanut world. The New York-based engineer has become an unlikely TikTok sensation by documenting his unique relationship with Peanut the squirrel.
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Evidence: pic.