about DH's nuts?

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i have just had the most bizarre discussion with DH. Bear in mind we have been together for 16 whole years now.

I have decreed that this year we will have nuts. I like nuts. We never have nuts because he does the shopping.

It transpired that he does not know which nut is which. He has never eaten a Brazil nut

I am off to waitrose to buy him a selection to educate him.

But I don't want them shelled, they don't taste the same.

Definitely TeWihara, cracking them is part of the fun. You're not being irrational at all.
Shelled nuts are for wusses.

Brazil nuts contain radium....they get it from the soil.....may or may not be true that if you walked into a nuclear reactor plant with a pocket full of brazil nuts it would set the radiation alarm off....

Pistachios are the bee's knees as you can suck the salty shells as well as crunching the nuts. Effectively two treats!! Yay!

DH thinks I'm weird because I said shelled brazil nuts remind me of killer whales. kind of whale shaped, and patchy with the darker bits of skin and the pale nut ... anyone else see it? Or maybe I AM just weird

...macadamia nuts are the toughest nuts to crack! It takes 500lb per square inch to crack one!

Nutcrackers are great. I'll eat nuts just to play with a nutcracker. The fact that they're so hard to use is the entire point.

500lb per square inch of pressure!

catpuss obviously I am a fan of random nut facts but did you time travel from the 1970's with that one? pounds and inches? Pascals please...or newtons per square meter.

I can't stand DH's nuts. Wrinkly little walnuts are the worst (unless they are pickled).
I like peanuts though.

Christ this thread needs highjacking.

That looks weird. Should it be hijacking?

Hmm, they both look weird.

Ahhh a thread especially for me

Christmas Eve. I arrive at parents. I place arse on sofa. Father places a large whiskey mac in my hand. Mother places nutcracker in other hand. I wrestle with nutcrackers elegantly place cracked nuts in gob.

Christmas has begun

which are the ones that look like brains? i love those.

"Nutcrackers are usually pretty shite though aren't they?"

Anyone know if anyone is selling the Margaret Thatcher nutcrackers this year? Preferably a shop (so little time for delivery).

Walnuts are the brain ones.

Dh's family have pickled ones at Christmas. They are terrifying when you have a hangover.

Can anyone tell me what the cashew nuts are that they have in posh bars? Had some recently and didn't think to ask (I'm not usually a nut person). Tried various spicy ones in the shops but they're not right. They were a tiny bit spicy but mostly just savoury.

I am allergic to brazil nuts and only brazil nuts. It is very strange.

I have a wasabi peanut addiction
Just got some coated pecans from the Market - so much sugar on them but lovely

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Are nut allergies something people have as children but not so much as adults? In other words, their bodies are intolerant when they are young but this changes as they grow up?
Obviously not in your case missmiss - your post just made me wonder, I have come across many DC with nut allergies and not one adult in RL.

kitty if you have a tree nut allergy you have it for life according to Guy's allergy clinic.

Allergies in general are fairly complex though. Some get better, some get worse, some stay the same. Probably depends less on what the allergy is and more on the person.

I say 'fairly' they are ridiculously complicated!

I can't find a single Brazil nut in a shell anywhere. Is that to do with the radiation thing then?

I was assuming they were either very popular and everyone had bought them all, or very unpopular and not stocked in the shops anymore.

Either way I'm paranoid enough to think everyone's in on it but me