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A Reminder

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There’s more than one language that uses the Hebrew alphabet (notably, Yiddish), but the words here look much more like Hebrew than Yiddish, so we’re assuming it’s that. (Although, interestingly, the only complete word we have is a word in both languages, and means the same thing.) The first word has the right letters to be the word for “car”, as in automobile, and the second entirely covered word has an adjective ending. After that, the fully uncovered short word at the end of the first line is “shel”, which means “of” as in belonging to. That last word starts with a letter pair that’s super common (like “ch” in English - there are millions of words that start with them), but it does have a feminine ending, so it’s a female person or maybe a place.

There are a few other things that the first word could be - notably, the first three letters make up a prefix that often means “bad” or “rotten”, which sounds like it makes sense (”the peanuts are bad so we won’t be serving them” or something), but actually doesn’t because of the “of”. Hebrew grammar doesn’t work that way. I couldn’t get a complete sentence from this lead.

I ended up being able to extract the peanut via modifying the html in an admittedly creative way (considering that I have little-to-no HTML experience) and view the underlying text:

[image description: a screenshot of the website of the Texas Roadhouse location described in the original post, but without the peanut obscuring the background text] The text itself reads “מיקום מדויק של פתח המערה“. Plugging that into Google Translate yields “Exact location of the cave opening” or “Exact location of the entrance of the cave”. I was able to verify with a Hebrew speaker that this is an accurate translation. Hope this helps solve the mystery of the Texas Roadhouse peanut. Additional information: - The png file of just the peanut, without the text, is named map-marker-peanut - The area where the peanut/text resides seems to be a type of location map (references to mapbox API) but with no data - I removed the peanut by using Inspect Element on it, and changing the map-marker-peanut url *in the url in the “background-image” value* to use a transparent png from Wikipedia instead

The explanation, 1952, Rene Magritte

Size: 35x46 cm