# Favorite snack nut? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2015, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825 "2015-01-25T04:37:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/21 "2015-01-26T02:38:15Z")
Definitely almonds. I love living less than 10 minutes from the Blue Diamond Almond headquarters and their factory store. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/22 "2015-01-26T03:48:13Z")
As much as I like every one on the list I just had to vote for my namesake. Roasted and salted in the shell. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/23 "2015-01-26T04:52:48Z")
I don’t get it. I don’t think many will name peanut their #1, but cashews are equally as bland. Pecans are the best, macadamia and hazlenuts (filberts) are good, walnuts and brazil are good except get old in large quantities. Pistachios usually require work, sometimes painfully so, but good in small amounts. Pine nuts too bitter for most? Some people apparently call them “pinyon nuts” which did not click that they were the same when first mentioned to me. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/24 "2015-01-26T05:06:17Z")
All of the above except pine nuts ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/25 "2015-01-26T05:10:51Z")
I love boiled peanuts to the point of insanity 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/26 "2015-01-26T11:39:54Z")
Almonds! Although the raw ones give me a stomach ache for some reason. Love Trader Joe’s roasted unsalted almonds. It’s my go to snack. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/27 "2015-01-26T14:13:12Z")
I posted this poll in part because I really cannot pick a favorite. My holy trinity is pecan/pistachio/cashew. If I start thinking of one of these as my favorite, the wonderfulness of the other two won’t leave my thoughts. Life is tough. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/28 "2015-01-26T15:34:44Z")
It’s a tie between pistachios and almonds. [Blue Diamond Smokehouse[sup]®[/sup] almonds](https://www.bluediamond.com/index.cfm?navid=36) are to-die-for. Very addictive. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/29 "2015-01-26T17:30:08Z")
Pistachios in the shell followed by shelled peanuts. I like in-the-shell peanuts but they are so messy! > [@JKellyMap](#): > > Before last November I would have picked just Almond and Cashew, but now I also add Walnut – because two months ago I cleaned, dried, and shelled (not easy – monkey wrench!) a bunch of black walnuts from a neighbor’s tree, and they were extraordinarily flavorful. Think perfumy bananas. Love love love black walnuts. They are so worth the effort. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/30 "2015-01-26T17:42:08Z")
Another nut along the lines of black walnuts are hickory nuts. Just as much work as black walnuts and just as delicious! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/31 "2015-01-26T17:44:58Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Another nut along the lines of black walnuts are hickory nuts. Just as much work as black walnuts and just as delicious! True! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/32 "2015-01-26T17:49:49Z")
I love macadamia nuts. I just don’t buy them often because they’re surprisingly expensive. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/33 "2015-01-26T18:00:50Z")
Every so often, I pick up a 3lb. bag of roasted & salted peanuts in the shell. Pistachios are better but so darned expensive these days. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/34 "2015-01-26T18:03:27Z")
Either cashews or pistachios, depending on my mood. I also like roasted chestnuts, though not as much as either of those, and hazelnut flavoring is a lot better than actual hazelnuts. At least, that’s if price is no object. In practice, I mostly snack on peanuts, just because they’re cheap. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/35 "2015-01-26T18:04:13Z")
Love cashews and pistachios. Our bird loves pistachios (he requests them by name) but we limit him to 2 or 3 a day. Funny then how we go through a big bag in a week!! ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/36 "2015-01-26T18:05:30Z")
Well, I eat more peanuts and peanut products than other nuts, but that’s owing more to the ubiquity than anything else. My real fave is the pistachio, followed very closely by pecans and almonds neck-and-neck ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/37 "2015-01-27T03:55:29Z")
Pecans and Peanuts are my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/38 "2015-01-27T04:05:24Z")
I was once married into a rural family who called Brazil nuts _that name you all know they were called_, utterly without shame. (Shudders) ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/39 "2015-01-27T04:06:27Z")
pssht, I saw favorite nut and I didn’t even need to see the list. It’s pistachio, hands down. The only nut where my fingers have been sore from opening the shells, but I keep going. The only nut I cannot keep in my house (well, condo) because I will eat the whole damn package. A few years back I bought a cereal/candy dispenser. Worked great for pistachios. Only trouble - people were coming by my then-cube three times per day, and I probably gained five pounds because I was hitting up that thing all the time. Retired it over health fears. Pistachios are dangerously delicious. And the act - no, the ritual - of cracking the shell, tossing, then eating the delicious pistachio within has a ton in common with more recognized addictions. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825/40 "2015-01-27T05:31:23Z")
I picked cashews and peanuts. I don’t really buy cashews that often because I like them so much that I find myself just snorting up the whole goddamn tin in a matter of minutes, and that’s not good for me. Peanuts, on the other hand, I am capable of enjoying in a slightly more moderate way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-snack-nut/710825.md?page=1)