Anybody want a peanut? or, Email Exchanges Part I

We both subscribe to, and are sometimes overly obsessive about, a certain tumblr that posts magnificent scientific illustrations. The author, or compiler, or whatever title you'd like to assign to someone who uploads things to the tumblr, periodically answers requests for certain types of material. Usually they are not very funny, but one reading "Do you have an illustration of a peanut by any chance it's for a tattoo" I found inexplicably hilarious. I sent it to Madeleine, and the following exchange ensued.

Madeleine: HAHAHAAA! lauren, will you get a peanut tattoo with me? i realize now that i've subconsciously always wanted one.

Lauren: YES. the question is....where? i say behind the ear. because i've always wanted peanuts behind the ear.

Madeleine: i think the natural correspondance between the shape of ears and the shape of peanuts is a sign from god.

Lauren: if my ears were placed together (without brain!), and made whole again, they would be indistinguishable from a very large peanut.

Madeleine: our brains are, then, by analogy, merely unshelled peanuts! i've long suspected as much.

Lauren: but usually you get two peanuts out of one shell...what does this mean? are we reviving aristotelian visions of love?

Madeleine: but — as no human brain is perfectly symmetrical (oh the price we pay for our fine motor skills and abstract reasoning!), no two peanuts can truly be 'two peas in a pod.' they are attached to each other only tenuously!

All of which, combined with the abnormally large amount of peanut butter consumed today, makes me wonder-- how often do we eat these (however-tenuously-connected) peanut pairs? Are none at all kept together in the production process? Even faced with smooth peanut butter, no paste can asimilate everything perfectly. We shall never really know what it is we spread.