# What's your favorite nut?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 20, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094 "2011-06-20T02:10:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/1 "2011-06-20T02:10:04Z")
If you don’t like the list in the poll, please complain to
> **[List of edible seeds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_edible_seeds)**
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> An edible seed\[n 1\] is a seed that is suitable for human or animal consumption. Of the six major plant parts,\[n 2\] seeds are the dominant source of human calories and protein. A wide variety of plant species provide edible seeds; most are angiosperms, while a few are gymnosperms. As a global food source, the most important edible seeds by weight are cereals, followed by legumes, nuts, then spices.
> Cereals (grain crops) and legumes (pulses) correspond with the botanical families Poaceae and Fab...
If you prefer those Latin named ones, please tell us what they are! 😉
(poll coming)
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/2 "2011-06-20T02:21:51Z")
Cashew, even though people say it’s not a nut. 😉
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/3 "2011-06-20T02:25:30Z")
Zeldar, would you please stop [naming](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGmNqzbsuiY) nuts?!
Cashew, for the record.
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### Author:  [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/4 "2011-06-20T02:29:37Z")
This reminds me of [the naming nuts scene in Best in Show.](http://youtu.be/KGmNqzbsuiY)
Edit: Nut ninja’d!
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/5 "2011-06-20T02:34:04Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#):
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> Zeldar, would you please stop [naming](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGmNqzbsuiY) nuts?!
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> Cashew, for the record.
Too fine! I never have been able to feature him and Jamie Lee.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/6 "2011-06-20T02:35:06Z")
> [@Silvorange](#):
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> This reminds me of [the naming nuts scene in Best in Show.](http://youtu.be/KGmNqzbsuiY)
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> Edit: Nut ninja’d!
This must have been in the wind. I had forgotten it, but am so happy it popped up.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/7 "2011-06-20T02:41:16Z")
I voted Cola Nut, but I really prefer _un-cola_ nuts.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/8 "2011-06-20T02:43:13Z")
Full disclosure, y’all: I got the notion for this poll from
> **[I am 45 years old, and I've never had Sweet & Spicy Pecans. Until now.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=613107)**
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> I have wasted my life. Just before we drove out of Texas on our way home to Indiana, I bought a bagful o’ gifts for Those Back Home. I was in a pecan store, so I ended up with a variety of pecans. Somehow I ended up with the 1 lb bag of...
I am 45 years old, and I’ve never had Sweet & Spicy Pecans. Until now.
Today, 08:28 PM
papergirl
Help her out, please.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/9 "2011-06-20T02:45:27Z")
Pistacios came close, but cashews are always a special indulgence for me. Yum.
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### Author:  [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/10 "2011-06-20T02:46:45Z")
The left one.
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### Author:  [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/11 "2011-06-20T02:48:34Z")
uh, you do know filberts and hazelnuts are the same thing, right?
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/12 "2011-06-20T02:48:35Z")
I voted Hazelnut, and it shows 0%. Is this a nefarious plot?
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/13 "2011-06-20T02:48:55Z")
> [@Spoke](#):
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> The left one.
You devil! 😃
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/14 "2011-06-20T02:50:08Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> I voted Hazelnut, and it shows 0%. Is this a nefarious plot?
You’re right and it beats me. Nutz!
Edited to add:
But look:
Filbert
california jobcase, carnivorousplant, Silvorange 3 17.65%
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/15 "2011-06-20T02:52:35Z")
Pistachios, almonds, and cashews.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/16 "2011-06-20T02:57:11Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#):
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> uh, you do know filberts and hazelnuts are the same thing, right?
I would have said so, but I went with Wiki’s version of life as we know it.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/17 "2011-06-20T02:58:59Z")
> [@Hades](#):
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> Pistachios, almonds, and cashews.
You have to pick one. I had to decide between pecans, cashews and pistachios.
I believe in a pinch I’d even eat some of those that I have no idea what they are!
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/18 "2011-06-20T03:07:10Z")
I love hazelnuts, both the nuts and the flavor, commonly used with chocolate, in coffee, etc.
Did anyone else grow up hearing Brazil nuts being called something very much not politically correct, or is it just me? Of course, I would never say it now, but in my family it was very common, sadly.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/19 "2011-06-20T03:10:34Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#):
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> I love hazelnuts, both the nuts and the flavor, commonly used with chocolate, in coffee, etc.
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> Did anyone else grow up hearing Brazil nuts being called something very much not politically correct, or is it just me? Of course, I would never say it now, but in my family it was very common, sadly.
Oh, yes! I’ve even heard people of that persuasion call them that!
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-nut/586094/20 "2011-06-20T03:10:38Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#):
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> Did anyone else grow up hearing Brazil nuts being called something very much not politically correct, or is it just me? Of course, I would never say it now, but in my family it was very common, sadly.
I didn’t hear it until I was in my 20’s.
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