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September 6 • 2018
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LILY GRIER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
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to giving NUTmobile tours to riding
n spring 2017, during her senior
in hot air balloons with Mr. Peanut.
year at the University of Michigan,
Jaclyn Nagel found herself sitting in Nagel’s favorite memories include
an informational session for a position meeting Jimmy Carter at the Plains
Peanut Festival in Georgia and
at Planters, one that would
ABOVE:
working the 7-Eleven Trade
entail spending a year on
Jaclyn Nagel
Show in Las Vegas.
the road in the NUTmobile,
plants a kiss on
“I love getting to talk to dif-
a 26-foot bus shaped like a
Mr. Peanut.
ferent people and hear their
peanut.
stories. We met a group of older
While she hated driving
people in Baltimore who collect
and had planned to look for jobs in
Planters memorabilia, and they told
cities where no car was needed, she
us about how the NUTmobile passed
found the idea of exploring a new city
out peanuts during World War II. It’s
every week and interacting with dif-
amazing to see how our work was
ferent people on a day-to-day basis
such a meaningful part of people’s
appealing. Several months and a few
childhood memories,” Hack said.
interviews later, Nagel found herself
Hack loved having the honor of
in Madison, Wis., at Peanutter orien-
bringing the NUTmobile to Detroit
tation alongside eight other recent
and showing it to her friends and fam-
college graduates from across the
ily. “We drove it down Woodward for
country.
the Dream Cruise, and people went
Along with those who would
wild,” she said.
be driving the Oscar-Meyer
Nagel said the experience gave
Wienermobile, also owned by Kraft-
her the opportunity to explore many
Heinz, the Peanutters learned the
great cities. “There were cities I
finer points of running promotional
knew I would love — and did — like
events as well as the ins and outs of
Denver and San Francisco, and then
driving and parking a giant peanut
in various terrains and weather con- there were cities I knew next to
nothing about that ended up being
ditions.
incredible.”
This past June, Nagel handed over
One such unexpected gem was
the keys of the NUTmobile to another
Missoula, Mont. A man wearing a
Jewish Detroiter, Jordyn Hack, a West
kippah approached the Planters
Bloomfield native and recent gradu-
display. Nagel struck up a conver-
ate of Indiana University. “Last year,
sation with him about the Jewish
my mom ran into Jaclyn’s mom and
asked what Jaclyn was up to. My mom community in Missoula and learned
he was a campus Chabad rabbi at
thought the opportunity sounded
perfect for me, and I got in touch with the University of Montana. Nagel
accepted his invitation to attend
Jaclyn. It was fate,” Hack said. Nagel
Shabbat dinner and had a wonderful
and Hack are the first Detroiters to
time getting to know some Jewish
enter the Peanutter family, and they
students. “The experience reminded
hope the legacy will continue.
The nine Peanutters travel in teams me that you can find a little bit of
home anywhere,” Nagel said.
of three NUTmobiles, each in dif-
Nagel now lives in Chicago. She
ferent parts of the country. Halfway
is interviewing for event coordina-
through the year-long commitment,
tor positions that will allow her
Peanutters switch teams, gaining the
to put the skills she learned in the
opportunity to explore a new region
past year to use while taking a more
of the country. Daily activities range
from manning tables in grocery stores managerial role. •