Steve Kerr pulled apart the freshly made circus peanut and pressed his thumbs into its spongy, orange center. Not too moist or too rigid – just right. “It’s all about feel,” he said.

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The mixture of ingredients is squirted into molds made of starch — the starch ... but perhaps for Circus Peanuts it's because nobody wants to admit that they're responsible for developing ...

It’s managed to persist in the many years since, just like circus peanuts ... the circus peanut’s creator presumably disappeared cackling into the night, the candy’s been made by various ...

Let us know at [email protected]. Before it was a signature circus and baseball game snack, the peanut had to make its way around the world to gain some popularity. Indications of peanut plants ...