# Rank your favorite nuts! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578 "2015-09-17T17:52:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/21 "2015-09-17T23:57:39Z")
1. Pistachios 2. Deez 3. Macadamia 4. Cashews 5. Lug ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/22 "2015-09-18T13:10:43Z")
We’re close enough to 10 voters for this ranking: ```auto 2) Pistachio 3) Pistachio 3.) Pistachio 4. Pistachio 2) Pistachio 3- Pistachio 1. Pistachios (18)/7 2.57 [1] 3) Cashew 9) Cashew 2.) Cashew 1. Cashew 1 - Cashew 1) Cashew 4. Cashews (21)/7 3 [2] 6) Macadamia 1) Macadamia 4.) Macadamia 6. Macadamia 2 - Macadamia 5) Macadamia 1- Macadamia 3. Macadamia (28)/8 3.5 [3] 5) Hickory nut 3 - Hickory (8)/2 4 [4] 1) Pecan 4. Pecans 2) Pecan (in a pie) 8) Pecan (not in a pie) 1.) Pecan 8. Pecan 4 - Pecan 4) Pecan 5- Pecan (37)/9 4.11 [5] 8) Almond 1. Almonds 10) Almond 6.) Almond 2. Almond 6 - Almond 8) Almond 2- Almond (43)/8 5.375 [6] 4) Hazelnut/filbert 5) Hazelnut 7.) Hazelnut 5. Hazelnut 7 - Hazel 7) Hazelnut 4- Filbert/Hazelnut (39)/7 5.57 [7] 9) Walnut 2. Walnuts 4) Walnut 8.) Walnut 7. Walnut 5 - Walnut 9 - Black Walnut 3) Walnut (47)/8 5.875 [8] 7) Peanut 3. Peanuts 7) Peanut 9.) Peanut 3. Peanut 8 - Peanut 6) Peanut (43)/7 6.14 [9] 10) Brazil nut 6) Brazil nut 5.) Brazil Nut 9. Brazil 9) Brazil (39)/5 7.8 [10] ``` **You’ll need to scroll right to see the rankings** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/23 "2015-09-18T13:22:26Z")
1 - Cashew 2 - Pistachio 3 - Macadamia 4 - Almond 5- Hazelnut 6 - Peanut I’m pretty sure these are the only nuts I have ever bought on their own. I have got others in mixed bags but wouldn’t seek out a bag of say walnuts. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/24 "2015-09-18T14:05:12Z")
**Cashew** (once you start, you can’t stop). **Peanut** (ditto) **Pecan** (not so much on their own but great in pastries) **Almond** (ditto) **Pistacia** (on their own) **Hazelnut** (in chocolate spread only) **Walnut** (with cheese only) ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/25 "2015-09-18T14:09:34Z")
I love them all but sometimes wonder why Pine Nuts are not everyones favorite. 1. Pine Nut 2. Macadamian 3. Brazil 4. Walnut 5. Cashew 6. Almond 7. Chesnut ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/26 "2015-09-18T14:15:59Z")
1.almond 2. walnut 3. pistachio 4. peanut 5. filbert 6. pecan 7. Brazil nut 8.cashew ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/27 "2015-09-18T14:17:33Z")
> [@Gothic](#): > > I love them all but sometimes wonder why Pine Nuts are not everyones favorite. Pine nuts are good as part of a recipe, but I’ve never been fond of them solo. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/28 "2015-09-18T14:25:54Z")
My choice of nuts has changed in the past few years. I ate a lot of salted nuts growing up. peanuts, cashews, and pistachios. loved them. these days I prefer unsalted nuts. raw almonds, walnuts, and filberts. I try to avoid salted nuts, but have my weak moments. I will occasionally pour a bag of salted peanuts in a Coke. A guilty childhood pleasure that I still love. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/29 "2015-09-18T14:58:06Z")
1. Peanut (boiled or roasted, I can empty a pound in no time) 2. Pistachio 3. Cashew 4. Pecan 5. Everything else. I like them all, but not enough to rank them. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/30 "2015-09-18T15:23:52Z")
The peanut has a varying status depending on what it’s accompanied with. In a can of mixed nuts, it’s basically just filler, but in a box of Cracker Jack, it’s the best part. In any case, of the ones I regularly eat: 1. pistachio 2. almond 3. macadamia 4. cashew 5. pecan 6. walnut 7. brazil 8. peanut ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/31 "2015-09-19T00:50:30Z")
An updated composite ranking: ```auto As of #30 Today, 10:23 AM DCnDC 1. Pine Nut (1)/1 [1] 2) Pistachio 3) Pistachio 3.) Pistachio 4. Pistachio 2) Pistachio 3- Pistachio 1. Pistachios 2 - Pistachio 5- Pistacia 3. pistachio 2) Pistachio 1) pistachio (31)/12 [2.58] 6) Macadamia 1) Macadamia 4.) Macadamia 6. Macadamia 2 - Macadamia 5) Macadamia 1- Macadamia 3. Macadamia 3 - Macadamia 2. Macadamian 3) macadamia (36)/11 [3.27] 3) Cashew 9) Cashew 2.) Cashew 1. Cashew 1 - Cashew 1) Cashew 4. Cashews 1 - Cashew 1- Cashew 5. Cashew 8. cashew 3) Cashew 4) cashew (43)/13 [3.31] 5) Hickory nut 3 - Hickory (8)/2 [4.0] 1) Pecan 4. Pecans 2) Pecan (in a pie) 8) Pecan (not in a pie) 1.) Pecan 8. Pecan 4 - Pecan 4) Pecan 5 - Pecan 3- Pecan 6. pecan 4) Pecan 5) pecan (55)/13 [4.23] 8) Almond 1. Almonds 10) Almond 6.) Almond 2. Almond 6 - Almond 8) Almond 2- Almond 4 - Almond 4- Almond 6. Almond 1. almond 2) almond (60)/13 [4.62] 7) Peanut 3. Peanuts 7) Peanut 9.) Peanut 3. Peanut 8 - Peanut 6) Peanut 6 - Peanut 2- Peanut 4. peanut 1) Peanut 8) peanut (64)/12 [5.33] 4) Hazelnut/filbert 5) Hazelnut 7.) Hazelnut 5. Hazelnut 7 - Hazel 7) Hazelnut 4- Filbert/Hazelnut 5 - Hazelnut 6- Hazelnut 5. filbert (55)/10 [5.5] 9) Walnut 2. Walnuts 4) Walnut 8.) Walnut 7. Walnut 5 - Walnut 9 - Black Walnut 3) Walnut 7- Walnut 4. Walnut 2. walnut 6) walnut (66)/12 [5.5] 10) Brazil nut 6) Brazil nut 5.) Brazil Nut 9. Brazil 9) Brazil 3. Brazil 7. Brazil nut 7) brazil (56)/8 [7.0] 11) Chestnut 7. Chesnut (18)/2 [9] 12) Kola nut ``` **Scroll right to see it all** ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/32 "2015-09-19T02:12:54Z")
My grandfather (and later, my uncle) would put out a huge wooden bowl of walnuts and pecans in the shell every year at Christmastime, with a heavy old steel nutcracker. I thought this was wonderfully charming, so I usually do the same thing (in a smaller wooden bowl). Drives the Ukulele Lady crazy, because no one ever eats them. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/33 "2015-09-19T02:21:17Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > An updated composite ranking: I’m not a pollster but I have to question the system used to create these ranking. One person ranked pine nuts number one. And that put pine nuts at the top of the overall list even though nobody else even included them on their list. Shouldn’t the non-presence of pine nuts on so many lists lower their overall ranking? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/34 "2015-09-19T02:23:53Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > My grandfather (and later, my uncle) would put out a huge wooden bowl of walnuts and pecans in the shell every year at Christmastime, with a heavy old steel nutcracker. > > I thought this was wonderfully charming, so I usually do the same thing (in a smaller wooden bowl). > > Drives the Ukulele Lady crazy, because no one ever eats them. Sounds familiar from old days in my family, except folks would eat them! Mostly pecans, almonds, walnuts and Brazils. I didn’t learn about hickory nuts (scalybarks) until I was grown and they are “tough nuts to crack!” for sure. Grandmama would boil peanuts every now and then and that was real close to Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/35 "2015-09-19T02:25:25Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m not a pollster but I have to question the system used to create these ranking. One person ranked pine nuts number one. And that put pine nuts at the top of the overall list even though nobody else even included them on their list. Shouldn’t the non-presence of pine nuts on so many lists lower their overall ranking? I welcome a better system. Be my guest. (I had similar misgivings about that result.) A similar problem is the Hickory Nut. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/36 "2015-09-19T02:27:57Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/37 "2015-09-19T02:45:02Z")
Dry roasted and lightly salted by preference unless otherwise noted. 1. macadamia (_Macadamia_ spp.) 2. hazelnut (_Corylus_ spp.) 3. walnut (_Juglans regia_, _J. californica_) 4. pistachio (_Pistacia vera_) 5. almond (_Prunis dulcis_) 6. pine nut (_Pinus_ spp.) 7. pecan (_Carya illinoinensis_), candied (pralined?) 8. peanut (_Arachis hypogaea_) Yes, I know it’s a legume. Tolerated in a mix but not enjoyed: cashew (_Anacardium occidentale_) Avoided since childhood: Brazil nut (_Bertholletia excelsa_) ---
**Author:** ![sangfroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sangfroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangfroid)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/38 "2015-09-19T02:45:05Z")
1. pistachio 2. cashew 3. pecan 4. brazil 5. hazel 6. walnut 7. peanut 8. pretty much all the rest I’d eat a lot more pistachios if they weren’t so danged expensive, shelled. I like shelling them, sometimes, but mostly because it keeps my mindless consumption in check. The shelled ones I just do a Homer Simpson on…_gone_. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/39 "2015-09-19T04:32:21Z")
Almonds Walnuts Peanuts Pecans Most of the rest of them Cashews Macadamia ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578/40 "2015-09-19T05:12:27Z")
How’s about those Scientologists? I don’t want to make light of this, however these creeps make my skin crawl. Is there nothing we can do to put a stop to them? It seems as if they can get away with most anything and everything and there is nothing we can do to put a stop to them. Seems like it only takes a single person at the top of their org to run the whole thing. All that person has to do is organize all the others until the entire group runs in the way that single single person whants it to run - and, of course, all the money has to trickle up from the victims right up to that leader). Are you familiar with the term, “Dear Leader”? It ain’t no joke. No joke at all. I am just so sad at the thought of it and … I don’t even know who to blame for this ongoing tragedy. Seems like all of our freedom has brought us this one huge tragedy. Who do we blame? Who do we fight? Is there nothing we can do about this? If so, what kind of weapons would you recommend we get using our 4th ammendment rights? I don’t know hardly anything about those ammendments. But we need to do something to get ourselves out of this pickle. We put ourselves into this big pickle. Is there no way we can use our freedoms to get the Hell out of it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-your-favorite-nuts/731578.md?page=3)