The Virginia type of peanuts is what's sold at these events, as mentioned in a song written in 1908
[DOC] [TLE] The Food Timeline: history notes--ice cream [PAR] Food historians tell us this type of ice cream originated in the 17th century and ... 
by scholars to be the first major cookbook written by a woman in what was until 
then .... its own is one for vanilla ice cream in Mary Randolph's The Virginia 
Housewife, 1824; ....