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A hard one?

 

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Almonds, cashews, walnuts, pecans, brazil and macadamia nuts.

 

Ackchuwally...Brazil nuts are not nuts...

 

Brazil nuts... are nuts.

 

Not biologically. A nut is a fruit which does not separate from a hard outer shell (doesn't split) and is firmly attached to the seed. Several brazil nuts are inside one fleshy fruit and thus are not true nuts. Almonds, cashews, walnuts, pecans, and macadamia nuts are not true nuts either. Examples of true nuts are acorns and hazelnuts.

You're eating tree drupes. Technically.

 

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Does anyone else know of any old people that had a racist name for Brazil nuts or was that just my wife's grandparents? Shit blew my mind the first time the little 80 year old Sunday school teacher busted out with that doozy.

 

Three of those are redundant.

 

In common vernacular, a seed or hard shelled fruit is a nut. But more importantly, in FOOD, a seed or hard shelled fruit is a nut, unless explicitly said to be a seed, or other.

It's important to use the language of the thing spoken of, and since this is food and not biology, all of those things are nuts.

 

Nope. Haven't heard anyone call it anything other than Brazil nut. Except IP, who calls them Brazil drupes, because, he doesn't know how to speak the language.

 

Oh, yeah.

 

So a peach pit is a nut?

 

It used to be a very common term for them.

 

Yes yes, your ignorance is very important to express. You have it right. It is the centuries of botanists and taxonomists who are wrong.

 

I've heard it called both pit and seed. I don't know if it is a seed. I have never heard it called a nut.

 

If they are talking about botany, they are correct, because botany requires a more specific language. The language of botany.

If they are talking about food, they are wrong, because food used a different language. The language of food.

You use the language of the subject.

 

Yeah, I still hear it if the person is 80+ years old

 

Wait what?

I've never heard it.

 

And how is it different than a brazil nut?