National Chocolate-Covered Peanuts Day

February 25th is National Chocolate-Covered Peanuts Day in the United States.

Yet another day featuring chocolate, and another food that's been covered in chocolate. This time its peanuts.

Peanuts, despite the name, aren't a type of nut but are instead a type of legume (a bean). There are a variety of different candies that could qualify as chocolate covered peanuts. There are candy bars, such as the Snickers, which have peanuts in them, and are chocolate.

There are individual chocolate covered peanuts, rather than clusters - M&M's are possibly the most well known branded type, but you can just have ones similar to chocolate covered raisins, without the colourful candy shell of M&M's.

You can also have chocolate covered peanut clusters. These are similar to the individual chocolate covered peanuts, but each is made from a cluster of several peanuts that have been covered in chocolate, not just one.