Aw Nuts!

Morning Glory said:
Cashews my least favourite (too fatty/oily). My favourites are walnuts because of the bitter edge. But I also like hazelnuts and their Kentish cousin the cobnut.

Brazil nuts seem to have all but disappeared. They always used to be included in bags of shell on mixed nuts but they haven't been for several years now.
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Brazil nuts haven't disappeared. They've just gotten very expensive and so are not put into mixed nuts in good quantity. That's another reason why I buy nuts separately, so that I can mix them as I please, not to just accept what is commercially profitable.

I bought some mixed nuts recently that claimed that peanuts where less than 10%, but it seemed to me that I bought a can of peanuts with a few almonds, pecans and walnuts thrown in.
 
Morning Glory said:
Cashews my least favourite (too fatty/oily). My favourites are walnuts because of the bitter edge. But I also like hazelnuts and their Kentish cousin the cobnut.

Brazil nuts seem to have all but disappeared. They always used to be included in bags of shell on mixed nuts but they haven't been for several years now.
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There's one Brazilian nut I'd like to see disappear...
 
TastyReuben said:
Brazil nuts are my favorite, by far. They're about the most expensive around here, naturally...
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If you refer back to my original post in this thread, you will see that I got a lb. of them for $9.98 which isn't much more expensive than the same amount of other nuts. You got to shop around.

Chestnuts are the most expensive per lb.
 
Is that whole, raw nuts, or shelled and cooked ones? I bought a net of raw, shell-on chestnuts yesterday, probably around 1lb in weight for under £2. I do, however, have to face the pain of cooking and shelling them. Maybe not my smartest purchase of the week.
 
epicuric said:
Is that whole, raw nuts, or shelled and cooked ones? I bought a net of raw, shell-on chestnuts yesterday, probably around 1lb in weight for under £2. I do, however, have to face the pain of cooking and shelling them. Maybe not my smartest purchase of the week.
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These are ripe peeled and roasted Chestnuts ...

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They eat like candies. :p:
 
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Cashew nuts are my fave, you need to,chew them properly, in 2006 after a night on the drink I opened a packet and scoffed them, when you bite them they split in half, a piece went down my throat and nicked my oesophagus, trip to hospital, I knew I was in trouble. Operated on, they cut me top breastplate to navel, then under my left breast round to my shoulder blade on my back. Cashews are poisonous, the most poisonous nut. They cleaned out my stomach cavity, coma for 10 days, then back to normal. I'm a member of the o.p.a in the uk. I shouldn't be here today!
Cashews not so much now.


Russ
 
rascal said:
Cashew nuts are my fave, you need to,chew them properly, in 2006 after a night on the drink I opened a packet and scoffed them, when you bite them they split in half, a piece went down my throat and nicked my oesophagus, trip to hospital, I knew I was in trouble. Operated on, they cut me top breastplate to navel, then under my left breast round to my shoulder blade on my back. Cashews are poisonous, the most poisonous nut. They cleaned out my stomach cavity, coma for 10 days, then back to normal. I'm a member of the o.p.a in the uk. I shouldn't be here today!
Cashews not so much now.


Russ
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That is some story. You have mentioned the being in a coma before but I didn't know it was all due to a cashew nut. I didn't know they are poisonous? How come we can eat them if they're poisonous?
 
Apparently cashews aren't technically a nut:

Cashew: The Nut That Is Not a Nut - UC Davis Integrative Medicine
The cashew is technically not a nut; it is a seed harvested from the cashew apple, the fruit produced by cashew trees.
Unlike many other nuts and seeds, the cashew grows outside the fruit instead of inside, within a kidney-shaped drupe that hangs at the end of the cashew apple’s base.
This drupe is considered the ‘true’ fruit of the tree while the cashew apple is thought of as an accessory or ‘false’ fruit.
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Only toxic if in your body cavity, not in the stomach system. The specialist dr Ross Roberts who saved my life gave me a pill like bottle with the pieces they took out of my body. It's still here somewhere. They gave me a 6% chance of survival before putting me under, I said lets get it over with, I'm going nowhere. I've always backed myself in life. :)

Russ
 
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