The server is maxed out.

They are flushing the standpipes in the building. One is opposite my office. LOUD.

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.

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.

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.

You like okra?

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.

LOVE OKRA! (especially pickled...YUM!)

You like okra?

I like it in Southern foods like gumbo.

What I don't like is: lima beans. Blech. Hate the texture. Also dislike garbanzo beans for similar reasons. (But eat hummus by the bucket. Garlic and lemon fixes everything.)

Peanuts are not nuts, so they may not ping the nut people. They're legumes.

Eh, taste and usage-wise, they're nuts. They won't ping a nut allergy (or vice versa), but in culinary terms peanuts are closer to pecans than to lima beans.