Bald paynuts

This may seem like a quaint observation to my Southern friends, but this opened can of boiled peanuts on a bench outside the Hays supermarket is a bizarre sight to Yankee eyes.
But then so are dead armadillos along the highway, a sky full of crop dusters dumping tons of agrichemicals willy-nilly over the landscape, and every third man, woman or child wearing cammo.