# Your favorite nut? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335 "2008-09-12T20:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/1 "2008-09-12T20:24:29Z")
For me Pistachios by far. If I didn’t have to shell them I could possibly eat half of a 5 lb. bag by myself. Honorable mention: Cashews and Walnuts. I wish a Sams Club was close by. They always had the huge bags of Pistachios really cheap. Moderators. I couldn’t decide if this would be better in Cafe Society or here. It’s kind of a poll I guess. But I just wanted to talk about the love for all things nutty. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/2 "2008-09-12T20:29:12Z")
For me, close call between pistachios and cashews. Macadamias are pretty awesome too; i love their consistency. If chocolate is involved, though, hazelnut moves to the top of the list. Chocolate and hazelnut is a great combination. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/3 "2008-09-12T20:30:57Z")
The left one. (Hazelnut) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/4 "2008-09-12T20:33:50Z")
I’m partial to the pistachio, but my true love is the peanut – for where would my beloved peanut butter be without it? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/5 "2008-09-12T20:34:08Z")
Hazelnuts and cashews tie for first, and pistachios are a close second, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/6 "2008-09-12T20:43:53Z")
Cashews. Preferably roasted with a little black pepper and salt. I could eat those until I get sick, and then promptly resume gorging myself on them as soon as the purging was done. I’m also rather partial to pecans if they’re an ingredient in a particular dish (ie. pecan pie, arugula salad with pears and pecans, cookies, etc etc), but not so much for just eating out of hand. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/7 "2008-09-12T20:49:36Z")
Cashews above all others. None even comes close. ---
**Author:** ![MsFancyPlants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@MsFancyPlants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsFancyPlants)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/8 "2008-09-12T20:49:38Z")
In the South, it’s in your contract to like pecans. Heaven help me, though, if they ever invent dark chocolate covered cashew M&Ms. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/9 "2008-09-12T20:51:06Z")
I’m a nut addict. I love them all. Cashews, Pistaschios, Brazil, Peanuts, Pecans…but for the favorite it’s the fat rich nuts, like cashews or pistachios. ---
**Author:** ![CAT\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@CAT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAT_1)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/10 "2008-09-12T20:52:07Z")
To eat on top of, or mixed in other foods, Pecan’s hands down. To nibble on pistachios. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/11 "2008-09-12T21:03:24Z")
Brazil. ---
**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/12 "2008-09-12T21:04:12Z")
Pecans. I’ve always loved pecans: as a child, I envied grownups the hand size and strength required to crack pecans by squeezing two together in one hand, while I had to use those nutcracker pliers and risk crushing the meat. I’ve been an adult a long time now and I still prefer to crack them by hand, even with no little kids around to impress. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/13 "2008-09-12T21:34:48Z")
> [@MsFancyPlants](#): > > In the South, it’s in your contract to like pecans. Heaven help me, though, if they ever invent dark chocolate covered cashew M&Ms. I will usually go for the cashews first, even though I am in the South, and the pecan is the Texas state tree. I love to get a big container of deluxe mixed nuts and go crazy. I regret that I’ve never found pistachios in such a container. However, I have found shelled pistachios for sale here and there, which I prefer very much to the unshelled sort. I want my nuts roasted and salted, please. I also love pumpkin seeds and sunflower kernels. I really don’t like to have to crack shells with my teeth, not after all the dental work I’ve gone through. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/14 "2008-09-12T21:38:37Z")
Walnut is something else. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/15 "2008-09-12T21:49:49Z")
I love just about all nuts, but pine nuts have to top the list. Big bag from Trader Joe’s. Raw or roasted, doesn’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/16 "2008-09-12T22:12:06Z")
hijack [Quote=Harlan Pepper] I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, “Harlan Pepper, if you don’t stop naming nuts,” and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that’s what put it in my mind at that point. So she would hear me in the other room, and she’d just start yelling. I’d say, “Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.” That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She’d say, “Would you stop naming nuts!” And Hubert used to be able to make the sound, he couldn’t talk, but he’d go “rrrawr rrawr” and that sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it’s also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut. [/Quote] /hijack 😃 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/17 "2008-09-12T22:19:01Z")
Macadamia nuts. Covered in chocolate, mixed with coffee beans, in cookies. Cashews and peanuts are also nice. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/18 "2008-09-12T22:19:37Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Brazil. Me, too! followed by pecans and pistachios. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/19 "2008-09-12T22:23:10Z")
Cashews. Roasted almonds are good too. Not a big fan of pistachios. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335/20 "2008-09-12T22:26:12Z")
My husband. cashews [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-nut/463335.md?page=2)