So my sister (42 years old) came to visit recently. I went off to work and left her at home to spend a relaxing day. I had a 1 pound can of mixed nuts (cashews, almonds, macadamias, pecans). When I came home, she said she had eaten some of them. No problem, that’s what they’re for.
Except when I went to have some a few days later after she had left, I found that she had methodically gone through the entire can and eaten every last fragment of cashew and nothing else. No real harm, I’m not angry or anything, it just seemed a very childish thing to do, especially when it’s someone else’s food. Does this strike anyone else the same way? Any seemingly childish foibles in adults you’ve encountered?
Well, at least she left the macadamias.
Cashews can be an addiction, my mother suffered from this as well. It wasn’t a childish thing she just could not stop herself.
I think it’s only a problem if you don’t like your sister for other reasons. I wouldn’t begrudge a guest their favorites from a can of nuts. It’s trivial.
However, if she is just a sucky person anyway, I can see where this might push someone over the edge.
I don’t think childish would be the word I would use. Selfish, perhaps. But even then, she was just making herself at home. Personally, I only eat peanuts. If you set a bowl of mixed nuts in front of me, I’ll only eat the peanuts. However, I’d try to keep my grubby hands from touching all the other nuts so someone else might enjoy them. And I wouldn’t eat all the peanuts.
StG
No, childish would be if you said something like “I got some nuts for you to eat right here!” and then grabbed your balls.
Nah, my sister is great and I certainly don’t begrudge her the cashews, my favorite are the almonds anyway. I found it more funny than anything else, and realized that in the same situation I would never in a million years eat all the almonds and leave the rest, if only because that’s just not the way things are done, not because I wouldn’t want to :).
That just generated a snot bubble for me.
I’m missing the point at which this statement covered the situation. Is it seriously that “some of them” = “all of the cashews”?
If so, I humbly submit that it’s time to take that childishness question and a mirror and schedule a little quiet time for contemplation.
My father lives about 450 miles from me, and he is addicted to cashews. On every gift giving occasion, I ask him if he wants something in particular, or should I just send along the nuts…he always, always wants the nuts. I usually send him the cashews & pecans mix, as it is a wonderful blend of flavor. My mother gets the dried fruit and nut mix, and she goes wild over it. Daddy told me that he always anticipates getting the nuts, and it’s great to have a consumable gift.
Next time Sis comes to visit, hand her a couple of cans of cashews, and tell her to enjoy. And next time she has a birthday or something, send along some cashews.
I’m always amazed whenever I think of cashews as foodstuff. Mainly because I know cashew shells are toxic. But it doesn’t end there, once you get through the shell, they’re coated with a layer of caustic slime which causes painful rashes in humans, and then they have a second, inner shell, which is very hard even after roasting. So when I think back on what some prehistoric person must have gone through to get to “hey, this is tasty” it makes me shake my head in wonder. The first person croaks from trying to eat the outer shell. The second person cracks the shell open, to be rewarded with chemical burns. The third person somehow cooks the chemicals off, and then has to smash through a second shell. Finally, they get a nut with about the same amount of meat as a peanut. That’s dedication to the cause in my book.
Enjoy,
Steven
I misspoke above. This was supposed to read: I’m missing the point at which this statement failed to cover the situation.
I think what needs to be done here is to send her a can of cashews for Xmas and eat all the cashews in the can before you send them.
I’d give her all the ones she didn’t eat this time, and tell her I’d eaten some of them.
I imagine someone picked up the nuts from the ground after the outer shells had rotted away and the inner shell cracked by the germinating seedling. At least that is how, as a small child, I first experienced European pine-nuts on a vacation to Spain:
Gathering under the pine trees those nuts that had fallen out of the pine-cone and had just cracked their hard shell, showing just the first trace of green. I remember them as delicious.
“Getting the nuts” sounds like a euphemism for something, but I’m not sure what.
Anyway, true childishness is eating all the M&M’s out of the gorp.
Nah, true childishness is giving her a can of mixed nuts and licking all the cashews.
Did she wash her hands before pawing through the mixed nuts?
As an aside…
Do all of you cashew lovers know that each and every one of those precious cashews had a “cashew apple” attached to it?
Here’s the whole thing.
Cashew apples are an acquired taste (not many would chomp into one), but they have the most delicious sweet aroma.
When my wife was younger and still living in Brazil, she regularly bought cashew fruits to keep in a fruit bowl in her living room; the aroma would keep the whole house smelling nice.
Cashew juice, from the fruit, is an especially tasty and light summer drink. If you ever have an opportunity, you must try it!
Here is a bottle of cashew juice concentrate. It needs to be mixed with water and sweetened before it’s ready.
More for me! 
I think this is similar to other “childish” habbits. For instance, kids will often eat the middle of an Oreo cookie and put the “cookie” part back. I did as a kid, but now I actually like the cookie part more than the middle.
On South Park we find Cartman eating all the skin off the chicken and leaving just the meat for the rest of them. On the Simpsons, we see Lisa tell Bart who’s eating cereal, “Ew Bart don’t put the non-marshmallow parts back in the box, those go in the garbage.”