Planters

Planters is an American snack food company, best known for its peanuts and the Mr. Peanut icon that symbolizes them.

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Started by Amedeo Obici, an Italian immigrant in 1906, it was incorporated in 1908 as the Planter Nut & Chocolate Co. Its main products these days are processed nuts of various kinds. It is a division of Kraft Foods.

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American: :This page disambiguates the many uses of American. For an article about those various uses, please see Use of the word American....

Peanut: The peanut or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) is a species in the pea family Fabaceae native to South America. It is an annual herbaceous plant growing to 30 to 50 cm (one to one and a half feet) tall. The leaves are alternate, pinnate with four leaflets (two opposite pairs; no terminal leaflet), each ...

Mr. Peanut: Mr. Peanut is the advertising logo and mascot of Planters, an American snack-food company. He consists of a drawing of a peanut in its shell dressed in the formal clothing of an old-fashioned gentleman: a top hat, monocle, spats, and a cane....

Planters related Images and Photos (experimental)

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