# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/41 "2011-11-15T20:04:40Z")
My Xmas stocking used to be full of them. I’m pretty sure it was, “Let the little bastard shell his own damn nuts.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/42 "2011-11-15T20:06:40Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > You forgot cashews and macadamias. > > And I’ve never heard of filberts. Filberts are hazelnuts. Love filberts and brazil nuts (the only name I’ve ever heard them called). ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/43 "2011-11-15T20:10:37Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Filberts are hazelnuts. > > Love filberts and brazil nuts (the only name I’ve ever heard them called). I choose filberts and brazil nuts too, although as a child I had no idea what brazil nuts were. Clue number 27391 why moving far away from my mothers family when I got pregnant was a great idea. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/44 "2011-11-15T20:22:19Z")
I’ve got about 150 pounds of pecans taking up space in my kitchen right now. If I were that ambitious I could probably pick up another hundred pounds from my yard. The ones in the kitchen will probably get “cracked and blown” for 35 cents/pound and be given away to family and friends north of the Ohio river. I really like black walnuts and hickory nuts better than pecans, but they’re really a pain to crack and eat. ---
**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 15, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/45 "2011-11-15T20:40:27Z")
When I was a kid, we used to have beech trees growing on our property and my brother and I would eat the beechnuts. But I’ve never seen beechnuts sold in stores. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/46 "2011-11-15T20:59:00Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > Pecans. > > I win! Especially if you serve them in a pie! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/47 "2011-11-15T22:16:14Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Filberts are hazelnuts. > > Love filberts and brazil nuts (the only name I’ve ever heard them called). I love them both also. We used to call them “Lithuanian Toes” when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/48 "2011-11-15T22:32:35Z")
One of the more pleasant gifts I got one Xmas was also one of the simplest. Just a 1lb bag of salted-in-the-shell pistachios with a red ribbon wrapped around it. Just the thing to accompany reading all the think books I got that year. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/49 "2011-11-15T23:19:31Z")
Macadamias are ALWAYS my favorite nut. \*And I knew exactly what was being referred to in the OP because that’s what everyone called them growing up around here. Must be a southern thing. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/50 "2011-11-16T00:32:09Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > I don’t think so - it’s just that was the common name when he was growing up and it never occurred to him that it was offensive, and assumed everyone else knew what he was talking about. It was the name I learned as a child, as well. I remember saying it at a friend’s house: apparently, his parents had had a talk with my friend about what was and was not polite talk in civilized society. He glanced sideways at his parents and said, very sincerely: “They’re called _Negro_ toes” (this was in the 50s, when “Negro” was still okay). It makes me laugh when I think about it now, as he was trying so hard to please his parents. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Unicorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d26b3c/32.png) [@White\_Unicorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Unicorn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/51 "2011-11-16T00:36:37Z")
Pecans! Especially with the yummy holiday spices on them! > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by kushiel > > I don’t think so - it’s just that was the common name when he was growing up and it never occurred to him that it was offensive, and assumed everyone else knew what he was talking about. Same here with my mom! She grew up in Eastern Ohio and that was all she had ever called them. She said the same thing in the grocery store, in a super conservative town in Texas! Agh! We also called Ding-Dong-Door-(uh)-Something (knocking on doors and running), N\*Knocking in Southeastern Ohio. Got bad shit when I unknowingly said that in Texas. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/52 "2011-11-16T01:33:09Z")
I’ve heard that Ian Fleming novels were referred to as “White boy books”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/53 "2011-11-16T02:09:51Z")
Just to add another layer of casual racism, I have to mention the time we were at a large flea market sort of thing, and found that one of the vendors had a pair of 'toes painted to look like slices of watermelon. Should have bought them to help me practice my eye-rolling. ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/54 "2011-11-16T02:23:06Z")
When we were raised in south east Texas we called hazel nuts chinquapins. Brazil nuts were always N’ toes. I never heard them called anything else untill I was grown. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/55 "2011-11-16T02:26:06Z")
> [@Craneop2](#): > > When we were raised in south east Texas we called hazel nuts chinquapins. I thought those were seeds of the American lotus, Nelumbo lutea. ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/56 "2011-11-16T02:39:45Z")
I dunno. When I get a can of mixed nuts the hazel nuts look extremely similar to what we called chinquapins. Of course I grew up in Houston. We might have been a bit backwoods. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/57 "2011-11-16T03:04:04Z")
Maybe I’m [wrong.](http://www.wegrowit.com/adams_images/chinquapin.html) Perish the thought…🙂 ---
**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:** [November 16, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/58 "2011-11-16T03:11:20Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Cashews are the best… You mean Honky Toes? mmm ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/59 "2011-11-16T03:12:04Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Pistachios are nut-crack. In my family we regularly make ourselves sick gorging on them, until I have to quit buying them so we can recover. > (Nut crack? _Nutcracker_? Get it?? :D) /lame joke of the day. _I_ always get a jar of SHELLED pistachios from Santa. I suppose they’re handy for using in baked goods like baklava, but they never last long enough for us do that… I’ll take all the hazelnuts (or filberts) if you don’t want them. They really taste special lightly baked (after shelling). ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879/60 "2011-11-16T03:31:31Z")
I find raw walnuts unappealing and Brazil Nuts are too much work. Otherwise I like them all. For what it’s worth, my (admittedly racist) grandparents used the “other” name for Brazil nuts as did my mother when I was growing up in upstate NY in the 70’s-80’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-nuts/602879.md?page=4)