# What is the nuttiest thing......... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 16, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nuttiest-thing/213502 "2003-11-16T03:02:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nuttiest-thing/213502/1 "2003-11-16T03:02:14Z")
What is the nuttiest thing you ever heard of? A forest of Oak trees full of acorns? Walnut trees? ---
**Author:** ![Jonmarzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jonmarzie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonmarzie)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nuttiest-thing/213502/2 "2003-11-16T06:03:24Z")
Baby Ruth bars. Yum! …and I know peanuts aren’t technically nuts. Still, I think they count for something. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nuttiest-thing/213502/3 "2003-11-16T06:16:06Z")
My ex-husband? Yessssssssss… and he’s pure evil. ---
**Author:** ![Wisp00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/977dab/32.png) [@Wisp00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wisp00)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nuttiest-thing/213502/4 "2003-11-16T07:51:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonmarzie \* > \*\* > > …and I know peanuts aren’t technically nuts. Still, I think they count for something. \*\* Peanuts aren’t nuts??? ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nuttiest-thing/213502/5 "2003-11-16T08:42:34Z")
Scalar weapons a.k.a. 1920-style death rays ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nuttiest-thing/213502/6 "2003-11-16T08:44:00Z")
If we’re counting peanuts, then I’m afraid that a Baby Ruth is put to shame in nuttiness by a Payday. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nuttiest-thing/213502/7 "2003-11-16T18:41:07Z")
That is, unless you’ve never had a Planter’s Peanut Bar. Chock-a-block with peanuts, which are really seeds[just like Brazil nuts, which don’t come from Brazil originally] Think I should tell Wisp00 that strawberries AREN’T berries? ---
**Author:** ![Wisp00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/977dab/32.png) [@Wisp00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wisp00)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nuttiest-thing/213502/8 "2003-11-16T22:22:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by quiltguy154 \* > \*\*Think I should tell Wisp00 that strawberries AREN’T berries? \*\* Strawberries aren’t berries?!?! ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nuttiest-thing/213502/9 "2003-11-17T00:07:08Z")
A strawberriy is an aggregate FRUIT that consists of a red fleshy edible receptacle and numerous seedlike fruitlets. A nut is s dry one seeded fruit of various trees, or shrubs consisting of a kernel in a hard and woody or tough and leathery shell. The peanut plant is a legume producing yellow flowers on stalks that bend over so that the seed pods ripen underground. Depending on the source, dictionaries seem to lump most seeds in hard or semi-hard casings as nuts. To the point of listing peanuts as nuts. What is the nuttiest thing you can think of?