Sara Virginia

A Georgia peach transplanted to Gatorland. Love barbecue (the real kind), boiled peanuts, the Dawgs and my Mama.

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

Lot of things about this app that are crazy but … a fellow Dawg being quoted by the menswear guy? This is why I keep coming back.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Amanda Mull (@amandamull) had a great article in The Atlantic a few years ago about how brands sold stretch pants to men, as they were previously considered feminine. Today, it signals you're a conventional guy who wears Peter Millar and dress sneakers.

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@SenRickScott Maybe you could contribute some of the money you took from Medicare. How much was it again?

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@WVSportsDotCom @BFrazierUGA @OKWildlifeDept Ummmm…

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@MCO @orlandomayor This is the cheesiest thing I think I’ve ever seen. I love it.

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@ALiferGaDawg Do you have any pics? I love Derby hats & fascinators!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Peanuts in Coke is one of the most accidentally perfect food pairings in history, and the chemistry explains why this guy can't go back.

Coca-Cola sits at pH 2.5, roughly the same acidity as stomach acid. When you drop roasted peanuts into that, the phosphoric acid partially denatures the surface proteins on the nut, releasing free glutamate. You're generating umami in real time inside the glass.

The salt on the peanuts suppresses bitter taste receptors on your tongue, which amplifies your perception of sweetness without adding a single gram of sugar. Coca-Cola already has 39g of sugar per can. Your brain registers it as even sweeter because the salt is clearing the noise from competing flavor signals.

Then carbonation does two things. CO2 dissolved in liquid forms carbonic acid, which triggers pain receptors (TRPA1), not taste receptors. That mild irritation resets your palate between sips so you never get flavor fatigue. Every sip hits like the first. Second, the bubbles physically agitate the peanut surface, accelerating the protein breakdown and glutamate release. The longer the peanuts sit, the more umami you extract.

The fat content seals it. Peanuts are 49% fat by weight. Fat is the only macronutrient that activates CD36 receptors, which your brain interprets as richness and satisfaction. Mix that with sugar, salt, acid, umami, and carbonation and you've accidentally triggered every major reward pathway in the human taste system simultaneously.

Georgia farmers in the 1920s did this because they needed one hand free while working. They stumbled into the optimal salt-acid-umami-fat-carbonation loop a century before food science could explain why it worked.

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@SenRickScott Why don’t you walk across the aisle and propose a compromise? Stop grandstanding on social media and DO SOMETHING.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

your timeline has been visited by Siena's giant Saint Bernard mascot. retweet for good luck

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@SenRickScott @SenSchumer Getting on a plane, driving a car, and buying a lottery ticket are not Constitutionally protected rights.

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@SenRickScott Last time I checked, none of the things you mentioned are rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Voting is.

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@MakisMedicine @dave_stanb17069 @DrNeilStone Weird, Florida license verification only shows a nurse, dental hygienist, and a massage therapist.

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@sethjoyner If someone has to pay in order to procure an acceptable form of ID to vote, it is considered a poll tax. Poll taxes are prohibited by the 24th amendment.

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@PupperNelson Honestly I’d pay extra to be on a plane with more Nelsons than humans.

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@PigBearTrader2 @lucyshow11 Was it an actual sewing tin or was it one of these?

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@Flyguy2stackz Appreciated you taking pics with so many fans in the stands last night. True class.

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@RoyalFamily @keeper_orchard got any thoughts on pecan foam?

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@MCO Any good boys or girls hanging around today? Be there around 2:30!

[Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd]

Retweet if you agree

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@GentlemanFromGA @jontweetssports Granted, there ain’t nothing “clean” about it, but the rivalry has been called that since before any of us were born. It’s tradition. A generic name ignores that long and bitter history.

[Sara Virginia @sazymae]

@TheGoldenRatio4 I fell in love with CB watching him cronch carrots and he’s been my fave ever since. I can’t imagine what you’re going through because this HURTS. But I know he had a great like with y’all and his journey was easier bc he was yours. Farewell, Chief Brody, Good Boy.