I don't think I can even get pecans in a grocery store
Trader Joe's, bay-bee!
Wesley: We're going to bring Angelus in alive. Connor: No we're not. Gunn: I thought you said capturing him wasn't an option. Wesley: Changed my mind. Connor: Change it back.
'Why We Fight'
The Crying of Natter 49
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nora Deirdre - Feb 08, 2007 7:08:29 am PST #8980 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Frankenbuddha - Feb 08, 2007 7:12:45 am PST #8981 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
My favorite nut is pistachio; cashews would be second. I think plain peanuts actually beat plain almonds to show, although I do loves me some smokehouse almonds.
Filberts and brazils are the two I don't get.
sarameg - Feb 08, 2007 7:12:50 am PST #8982 of 10001
No pecans in a grocery store? You must be in a weirdass market or something. Pecans are not exotic. Good, yes. I don't think of them as particularly expensive, but that may be my bias showing. (Pecan orchards everywhere in the southwest. There are some just below my parents' neighborhood even.)
shrift - Feb 08, 2007 7:14:32 am PST #8983 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Work is so dead today. I've received one e-mail in almost three hours.
sarameg - Feb 08, 2007 7:19:18 am PST #8984 of 10001
The server is maxed out.
They are flushing the standpipes in the building. One is opposite my office. LOUD.
Jessica - Feb 08, 2007 7:19:37 am PST #8985 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Has anyone figured out why people hate the word "Vagina" so much?
This has to be a hoax, right? I mean, "The Hoohah Monologues"???? I refuse to buy it.
Hazelnuts are the only nuts I actively dislike. I find them strange and offputting.
DavidS - Feb 08, 2007 7:20:07 am PST #8986 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love walnuts but they don't have an evil bitter taste to me. Just slightly bitter which contrasts beautifully with both chocolate brownies or maple syrup.
They're a little like pecans but not as buttery, darker, that edge of bitter. Again, if you don't have Shrift's tongue (or a comparable one) they taste extra good with chocolate.
Peanuts are not nuts, so they may not ping the nut people. They're legumes.
lisah - Feb 08, 2007 7:20:29 am PST #8987 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I think that the reason walnuts are in grocery stores at all is that they are less strongly-flavored than peanuts (they can go into salads) but $3 per pound cheaper than almonds.
But I love walnuts for their own walnuttiness! They have a texture and a taste that are distinct from other nuts.
Pecans are chewier and sweeter than walnuts. I love them too but when I want a walnut I want a walnut (for example, in the salad I'm going to be having for lunch where the walnuts will go perfectly with the blue cheese).
That said, I love all nuts. I have not met a nut I do not love. See, also, vegetables.
sarameg - Feb 08, 2007 7:21:28 am PST #8988 of 10001
You like okra?
Sue - Feb 08, 2007 7:22:02 am PST #8989 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I think walnuts have a nice bitter/sweet contrast. They really add a nutty sweetness to salads but the skin does have a bitterness to it.