"Nancy Young" wrote:

>--Bryan wrote:
>> On Jan 12, 7:52 am, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>>> wrote:
>>>> My sister gave me a large canister of mixed nuts for Christmas. I've
>>>> eaten the cashews, the almonds, the pecans, and I've managed to give
>>>> away the hazelnuts, but nobody will touch the Brazil nuts. Does
>>>> anybody actually eat them? Everyone I've talked to has said no.
>>>> They're the lima bean of the nut world.
>>>
>>> Send them to me, I adore them. You're not supposed to eat a
>>> ton of them, they are high in selenium and too much is too much.
>>
>> That is useful information, but damn, now I'm going to have to limit
>> them.
>
>I know. Sorry. Too many cashews makes me queasy. I love nuts
>but I have to control myself.
>
Brazil nuts are preetty much flavorless as are macadamias, cashews are
only a little bit better. If I'm gonna pig out on nuts they're gonna
be pistachios, but I also like walnuts. I'll choose filberts, pecans,
and almonds over brazil nuts any day, and I consider macadamias trash.
If you like nuts so much that you need to control your intake may I
suggest in-shell pumpkin and sunflower seeds... a handful goes a long
way. I very rarely buy shelled nuts, I even prefer peanuts in the
shell. As a kid in Brooklyn everywhere were those banks of penny
gumball and nut dispensors, I'd often get a penny's worh of in-shell
sunflower or pumpkin seeds, I also liked those spanish peanuts still
clinging to their red coats. Every candy store sold Indian brand
salted sunflower and pumpkin seeds in the red box for 2¢, the pumpkin
seeds were so crusted with salt that one couldn't finish a little box
in one sitting.

Seems now in an airline bag:
http://www.oldtimecandy.com/memories...s-memories.htm

Wow, sunflower seeds available more ways than one can count:
http://www.nutsonline.com/snacks/sun...Fag65Qod9xZFrw