Happy Grab Some Nuts Day, August 3rd!
9Why would there be a holiday called Grab Some Nuts day? Well, why not?
The hardest thing about grabbing some nuts is there always seems to be someone around who’ll tell you what you call a nut is not really a nut. Peanuts aren’t really nuts, they’ll say. Walnuts aren’t nuts, cashews aren’t nuts, pistachios aren’t nuts. Even almonds aren’t nuts. It’s enough to drive you nuts.
So, how should one celebrate such an awesome holiday? A few suggestions:
–Grab your nuts.
–Grab someone else’s nuts. (Be careful whose. Some folks are picky about who they let grab their nuts.)
–Dive into that big shipment from NutDrop. Or, umm, well, forget that one.
–Think up celebrity nut names, song, movie or TV titles, such as these nutty ones:
----Tango & Cashew
----Almond in the Family
----Hazel(nut)
----The Place Beyond the Pine Nuts
----Johnny Cashews
----The Nuts from Brazil
----Goin’ Coconuts (not something I had to think up but I just like the sound of it)
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POPSOCKETS! COURT DOCKETS! FOLK ROCK HITS! AWESOME!
I LOVE MY NUTS!
Best nuts are the Toasted Coconut Cashew at Lidl.
I’ve got nuts right now. Anyone like me to post a photo of my nuts?
@OnionSoup
@OnionSoup tell me more about the toasted coconut nuts.
@RiotDemon they are fantastic sweet and oily and very unhealthy… Lol
Cashews toasted in coconut flakes. In a black bag at Lidl in the nut section.
@RiotDemon @OnionSoup I just added the Wal-Mart Great Value brand to my cart for my next home delivery. I’ve had a good experience with their online shopping and store brands. Thanks for the tip! I love cashews.
Thanks to @snapster’s Twitter mention of the surplus nuts site referred to here: I say “Aloha, Nut Day!”
And then there are “other kinds of nuts”… Chortle.
@Kidsandliz Naughty Naughty
@Felton10 You just have a dirty mind. I was thinking of the crazies. Ummhuuummmm. Yup.
Random trivia time…
Almost everyone knows that peanuts aren’t really nuts… But did you know that technically cashews aren’t nuts either, and neither are pistachios.
There’s more, pine nuts aren’t nuts either and neither are almonds.
Yes but Walnuts and Pecans are nuts right… Well actually they’re drupes (same classification as coffee beans or cherries)
So what nuts that you eat are actually nuts… Pretty much just hazelnuts and chestnuts… The rest technically are not true nuts.
… That’s… Ummm… Crazy.
Oh, and strawberries and raspberries aren’t actually berries… But watermelons technically are a berry.
@OnionSoup Tomato is not a vegetable.
@ThunderChicken it’s not if you ask a biologist. It is if you ask a lawyer. Congress passed a law several decades ago declaring that tomatoes are to be called Vegetables. By scientific definition though, they’re fruits.
There again, either Kansas or Kentucky once passed a law saying that pi equals three… Just three… So politicians often don’t get science.
@OnionSoup @ThunderChicken
Or math apparently either.
@ThunderChicken OK… I was wrong about them passing a bill saying Pi equals three. They tried to, and got a lot of support,.but failed. Apparently it was based on something in the Bible.
And it wasn’t Kentucky or Kansas, it was actually Indiana… Tennessee once tried too.
@OnionSoup In a rare instance of efficiency, the French call them les pommes de terre (apples of the ground), so no one will forget and one need not correct people.
@ThunderChicken I know that’s what they call potatoes.
Some parts of Germany call potatoes Erdapfel too (earth apples).
@OnionSoup @ThunderChicken I heard that the pi=3 debacle was because some legislator’s kid was having trouble with math. Rather than face the fact that his own kid was “mathematically challenged” he thought he should make it easy for all kids in his state. (At least until they grew up and went into construction or engineering or math or physics or…). Though using a biblical rationale would have been classic.
@OnionSoup That is one of the few examples where a German spelling is shorter than a French one. Or anyf other language for that matter.
I am very protective of my nuts. My wife tries to gab them when I am not looking.
@Felton10 What she
gabstalks to your nuts when you are not paying attention? And how do they answer back (no don’t answer that)? (/smirk)@Felton10 She is just trying to put them back in her purse where they belong.
@Felton10 @mike808 Now that would be awkward.
@Kidsandliz They don’t respond but their sidekick does.
@mike808 I keep telling her she should get her own nuts to play with.
@Kidsandliz @mike808 Not if you knew my wife.