Anyone know why the Peanut comics are called Peanuts?

Question

My mom wanted to know the other day, and so did I. Anyone know?

Answer 1

It had to do with the author's fav. food.!

Answer 2

In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped in 1949. The next year, Schulz approached the United Features Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks.

When his work was picked up by United Features Syndicate, they decided to go for the new comic strip he had been working on. This strip was somewhat similar to the panel comic, but it had a cast of characters, rather than different nameless little folk for each page. Maybe the name would have been the same, though, had it been less close to the names of two other comics of the time: Al Capp's Li'l Abner and a now-forgotten strip titled Little Folks. To avoid confusion the syndicate settled on the name "Peanuts", a title Schulz himself disliked. In a 1987 interview, Schulz said of the title Peanuts: "It's totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing, and has no dignity — and I think my humor has dignity".[6] The periodic collections of the strips in paperback book form typically had either "Charlie Brown" or "Snoopy" in the title, not "Peanuts", due to Schultz's previously mentioned dislike of his strip's title. The Sunday panels eventually typically read, "Peanuts, featuring Good Ol' Charlie Brown".

Answer 3

When his work was picked up by United Features Syndicate, they decided to go for the new comic strip he had been working on. This strip was somewhat similar to the panel comic, but it had a cast of characters, rather than different nameless little folk for each page.

Maybe the name would have been the same, though, had it been less close to the names of two other comics of the time: Al Capp's Li'l Abner and a now-forgotten strip titled Little Folks. To avoid confusion the syndicate settled on the name "Peanuts", a title Schulz himself disliked.

In a 1987 interview, Schulz said of the title Peanuts: "It's totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing, and has no dignity — and I think my humor has dignity".

Answer 4

"Peanuts" was the name given to the strip by the syndicate that first bought the rights to publish Charles Schulz' strip about little kids. Schulz never liked the name himself, and preferred the name, "Lil' Folks".
The name Peanuts refers to a friendly slang term for kids used during the '40's and early '50's. Kids' sections in theaters and movie houses were often known as "the peanut gallery" for the same reason.