My Xmas stocking used to be full of them. I’m pretty sure it was, “Let the little bastard shell his own damn nuts.”
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.
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.
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.
Especially if you serve them in a pie!
I love them both also. We used to call them “Lithuanian Toes” when I was a kid.
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.
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.
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.
Pecans! Especially with the yummy holiday spices on them!
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.
I’ve heard that Ian Fleming novels were referred to as “White boy books”.
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.
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.
I thought those were seeds of the American lotus, Nelumbo lutea.
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.
Maybe I’m wrong.
Perish the thought…
You mean Honky Toes?
mmm
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).
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.