Yum, brazil nuts...ever since I was a kid they've meant "Christmas" as we used to get them in our stockings. I love their unique texture and taste. Buttered (toffee-covered) brazils always seemed excessive to me.
We also saw them only at Christmas time in our stockings. Very uncomfortable to walk in them. Ours were always still in the shell - and what a hard not to crack!
KNadineM
Aug 14, 2016
Lol @ ParsonWayne! That's funny!
pixipixil
Aug 14, 2016
That's nuts.
ParsonWayne
Aug 15, 2016
Shell-y you jest, pixipixil
pixipixil
Aug 15, 2016
You mean you do walk on them in your socks?
That would truly be pun-ishment. A tree-mendous one at that.
ParsonWayne
Aug 16, 2016
That's nut a problem anymore. I don't get them in my stocking at Christmas now that I do the filling.
I remember one Christmas my gift was a huge naval orange, and some Brazil nuts. I shared the orange with my younger brother. We were poor but I didn't know it. It was during WW2.
pixipixil
Aug 16, 2016
I've never been that poor but my husband has. My mother remembers constantly moving during the depression because her father had died and they couldn't pay the rent. I don't know what they did for Christmas gifts. I'll ask my uncle. My mother and her sisters are deceased.
ParsonWayne
Aug 27, 2016
It is sad to have most of our relatives gone, but at least at my age, there is much less peer pressure, having lost so many peers.
I too enjoy eating brazil nuts. They are somewhat hard to find in my area, except in health food stores. I absolutely do not understand why they insist in displaying them in containers open to the air. I bought a few, and they were stale, as I expected. Eating them on a regular basis is supposed to lift your mood if you are prone to depression.
That would truly be pun-ishment. A tree-mendous one at that.
I remember one Christmas my gift was a huge naval orange, and some Brazil nuts. I shared the orange with my younger brother. We were poor but I didn't know it. It was during WW2.