{"id":211129,"date":"2018-06-13T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T06:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=211129"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T05:25:33","slug":"big-peanut-are-we-going-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/06\/13\/big-peanut-are-we-going-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Peanut &#8230; Are We Going Nuts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_211170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211170\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bigpeanut2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-211170\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bigpeanut2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bigpeanut2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bigpeanut2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No, despite reports to the contrary, the Big Peanut is not in Kingaroy &#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/editorial-d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-77900\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/editorial-d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/editorial-d.jpg 210w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/editorial-d-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>June 13, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Anne Miller<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you Google &#8220;Kingaroy Big Peanut&#8221;, you&#8217;ll find a photo of this handsome fellow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The sad fact is, this happily be-hatted guy is actually at Tolga, another one of Queensland&#8217;s main peanut-growing areas.<\/p>\n<p>For years, Kingaroy has been accused of having a &#8220;Big Peanut&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A while back, I was charged with the job of trying to fix up some of the out-of-date tourist information about the South Burnett that could be found on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>I contacted many websites &#8211; most of which didn&#8217;t return my calls or emails &#8211; to try to fix multiple egregious errors.<\/p>\n<p>One error that kept on recurring was the myth of the Kingaroy Big Peanut.<\/p>\n<p>It even appeared in a report listing &#8220;things to see&#8221; that was published by the Courier-Mail!<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me back to today.<\/p>\n<p>A mystery group of local residents started making noises a while back about fixing this tourism oversight.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why they&#8217;ve hidden their identities &#8211; the rumour is some Council folk are involved, as well as reporters from a rival newspaper &#8211; but who knows?<\/p>\n<p>All we know is the official spokesnut is a Mr King Roy.<\/p>\n<p>We heard a tip last week that a vacant green at the Kingaroy Bowls Club had been volunteered as the home for the large legume.<\/p>\n<p>(Tourists might stop, take a pic and perhaps enjoy a coldie at the club?)<\/p>\n<p>We also heard the mystery group was hoping the Gambling Community Benefit Fund might be willing to shell out up to $100,000 to make the project happen.<\/p>\n<p>This is all so much fun, but now the ABC is quizzing our local MP, Deb Frecklington, about the project so I guess we have to start taking it a bit more seriously.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In other news: Deb Frecklington says international visitors will be drawn to Kingaroy by a soon to be built &#8216;Big Peanut&#8217;. \ud83e\udd5c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/qldpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#qldpol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gjiD69PeQf\">pic.twitter.com\/gjiD69PeQf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Bavas (@JoshBavas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshBavas\/status\/1006753002357551104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>A couple of years ago, South Burnett Arts Inc (yes, I&#8217;m secretary) also tried to get a Big Peanut-like project off the ground.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The plan was to produce a large, futuristic sculpture of a peanut and navy bean &#8211; designed by well-known Queensland artist Mark Shellshear &#8211; and place it on one of the entry ways to Kingaroy.<\/p>\n<p>A site on the railway land near Somerset Street was suggested, which would have framed the view of the real peanut silos within the hollowed out sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>We hawked the idea around Council and arts funding bodies.<\/p>\n<p>But sadly, no one was interested at the time &#8230; and honestly, the cost would have been enormous.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Does Kingaroy really need a Big Peanut?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>UPDATE:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/national\/queensland\/kingaroy-s-big-peanut-dream-inches-closer-20180614-p4zle1.html\">The Brisbane Times has managed to dig and thresh out more details &#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_211132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211132\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sculpture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-211132\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sculpture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sculpture.jpg 600w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sculpture-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A maquette of a stylised peanut and navy bean sculpture by artist Mark Shellshear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/editorial\/\">Read more Editorial columns<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you Google &#8220;Kingaroy Big Peanut&#8221;, you&#8217;ll find a photo of this handsome fellow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":77903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[598,3],"tags":[1156],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Big Peanut ... 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