Sugar-Candied Peanuts

Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which eventually expanded into a media franchise. The strip originally ran from October 2, 1950 to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. Peanuts is regarded as one of the most popular and influential comic strips in history, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being". At the time of Schulz's death in 2000, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of roughly 355 million across 75 countries, and had been translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. Following successful animated television and stage-theatrical adaptations over the years, five animated theatrical films have been released. It is also one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

sugar

Noun

1. A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
2. Any specific variety of sugar.

Verb

1. To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
2. To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

candied

Verb

1. simple past and past participle of candy

Adjective

1. coated or encrusted with sugar
2. preserved in sugar or syrup by baking till it becomes translucent

peanuts

Noun

1. plural of peanut

Noun

1. Especially of a salary: a very insufficient or small amount.