# This year's walnuts. Did you find more bad ones than usual?

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**Created:** [January 16, 2015, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-walnuts-did-you-find-more-bad-ones-than-usual/709955 "2015-01-16T06:39:23Z")\
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**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:** [January 16, 2015, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-walnuts-did-you-find-more-bad-ones-than-usual/709955/1 "2015-01-16T06:39:23Z")

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Walnuts are always my favorite nut during the holidays. There’s something so relaxing shelling and eating them. They’re just about gone from the stores now. I still have a couple bags left. No more walnuts until next November.

This year I consistently found more bad ones than usual. I’d guess 1 out of 5 was dried up and had those yucky spider webs in them. I bought one bag that easily had 1 out 3 bad ones. I ended up eating a few that weren’t too badly dried up but they were a little rancid tasting. That’s pretty expensive at over $5 a 16 oz bag for walnuts.

Did you experience the same this year? I wonder if it was the drought in California?

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**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-walnuts-did-you-find-more-bad-ones-than-usual/709955/2 "2015-01-16T15:01:39Z")

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I have a grove of black walnuts and this year we had **none**. My grandma, who lives about 250 miles from me called this fall and asked me to bring her some because her trees were barren and I had to tell her that it wasn’t just her.

So there’s some anecdotal evidence for you from Wisconsin.

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**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-walnuts-did-you-find-more-bad-ones-than-usual/709955/3 "2015-01-16T15:25:05Z")

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I had the same problem of no more then a literal handful of black walnuts from my tree this year, which is usually squirrel central. I was wondering if it was the bad winter and late spring we had.

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-walnuts-did-you-find-more-bad-ones-than-usual/709955/4 "2015-01-16T15:35:58Z")

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> [@August\_West](#):
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> I have a grove of black walnuts and this year we had **none**. My grandma, who lives about 250 miles from me called this fall and asked me to bring her some because her trees were barren and I had to tell her that it wasn’t just her.
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> So there’s some anecdotal evidence for you from Wisconsin.

I live a few miles east of **August West** and my experience is just like his. Which is fine with me, the damn squirrels can bloody starve and stop destroying my attic!