# What's your favorite Holiday nuts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2011, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879 "2011-11-14T07:54:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [November 14, 2011, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/1 "2011-11-14T07:54:16Z")
It’s that time of the season. The produce section of grocery stores have heaping bins of nuts. English Walnuts, Pecans, Filberts, Nigger Toes, Almonds, and Pistachios. Anything your heart desires in a shell. What do you prefer to buy and shell yourself? ---
**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:** [November 14, 2011, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/2 "2011-11-14T07:59:32Z")
I usually buy English Walnuts and Pistachios in the shell. I hate messing with pecans. Always have to dig out tiny pieces of nut with a metal pick. Filberts are ok but I’m not spending my money on them. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/3 "2011-11-14T08:03:34Z")
You did not just post the n word. Fuck, you did. :mad: WTF! ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/4 "2011-11-14T08:10:48Z")
It is too bad that I know what a n\_toe is and I have no clue about a filbert. Thanks Papa ---
**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:** [November 14, 2011, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/5 "2011-11-14T08:14:13Z")
I’ve been calling Brazil Nuts, Nigger Toes since I was five years old. So does everyone I know that’s remotely close to my age. I don’t call people the N word. Never have and never will. That’s a whole different thing. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/6 "2011-11-14T08:20:07Z")
The word is just not OK. At all. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/7 "2011-11-14T08:20:58Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’ve been calling Brazil Nuts, Nigger Toes since I was five years old. So does everyone I know that’s remotely close to my age. > > I don’t call people the N word. Never have and never will. > > That’s a whole different thing. It’s not 1960. Casual racism is no longer acceptable. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/8 "2011-11-14T08:22:00Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > I have no clue about a filbert. Maybe you know them as hazelnuts. They’re the ones that resemble an acorn. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2011, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/9 "2011-11-14T08:27:34Z")
I should have said Filberts/Hazel Nuts in the poll. They are basically the same thing. Usually you find Filberts in those bins of nuts in the produce section. > [@](#): > > The names filbert and hazelnut are often used interchangeably. The name Hazelnut typically applies to the nut of the Corylus family grown in the north-west United States, while the name Filbert typically applies to the nut of the Corylus grown around the Mediterranean. [http://www.squidoo.com/filberts](http://www.squidoo.com/filberts) ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/10 "2011-11-14T08:40:09Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > You did not just post the n word. Fuck, you did. :mad: WTF! I grew up amongst highly racist people in the mid-70s and even THEY would not call them “Nigger Toes.” ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/11 "2011-11-14T08:52:33Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Maybe you know them as hazelnuts. They’re the ones that resemble an acorn. Thank You, I had to look it up on Wikipedia, the term nigger toe in my family, was known, but always spoken in whispers and generally shunned. It was always spoken as a historic name, even from my drunken ass grandparents. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/12 "2011-11-14T08:59:33Z")
Almonds and Hazel Nuts, both for delicacy, and ease of cracking. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2011, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/13 "2011-11-14T09:48:14Z")
I wanted to apologize if anyone was offended by the slang name for brazil nuts. I simply used the slang name just in case someone didn’t know the formal name. Google nigger toe. The very first entry is a wikipedia article for brazil nuts. That’s all the term is. Another slang term for brazil nut. Most of the families near my granddads rural home were black. I grew up playing with black kids. We were out in the yard roughhousing every day after school. We shelled a lot of nuts on my granddads porch and put them in the freezer. Everybody ate Nigger Toes and thats what they were called by everybody white or black. I never heard of brazil nuts until high school. Words have different meanings based on context. I went coon hunting in high school. It’s understood that I’m referring to racoons and not people. We eat nuts for a snack. It’s understood we are referring to tree nuts and not testicles. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/14 "2011-11-14T11:12:40Z")
Thank you for your apology, aceplace57, but as I think you are aware, it’s not an acceptable term. Please don’t use it here any more. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/15 "2011-11-14T13:54:44Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > So does everyone I know that’s remotely close to my age. And what would that be . . . five? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/16 "2011-11-14T13:58:25Z")
Cashews. Or aren’t they considered “holiday” nuts? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/17 "2011-11-14T14:42:48Z")
I voted for pistachios and almonds, but I don’t associate pistachios with Christmas (or any other holiday, for that matter). ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/18 "2011-11-14T14:45:31Z")
I don’t know what nuts have to do with holidays (except for that song about roasting chestnuts) but I love raw almonds and brazil nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/19 "2011-11-14T14:46:19Z")
I love Brazil nuts. I’ll be 57 on Xmas Day, and that is ALL I ever call them. Brazil nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/20 "2011-11-14T21:18:10Z")
You forgot cashews and macadamias. And I’ve never heard of filberts. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879.md?page=2)