Maybe they follow the shita of a rabbi by the name of Moshe Feinstein that peanuts aren’t kitniyot? (I am Sephardic, by the way, but my understanding of the minhag of kitniyot, as Reb Moshe understands in his teshuva, is that the ban only applies to foods which were around at the time when the minhag began in the 1300s. According to his definition, peanuts shouldn’t be banned for Ashkenazim, nor should corn or potatoes, since despite the fact that people make flour from these foods, they are New World foods that only entered Europe with the Columbian Exchange in the 1500s and onwards, far after the ban on kitniyot took effect for Ashkenazim).
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