Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Brazil nuts

For now on I shall call them Bolivia nuts.

And when I saw all those people cracking open the nuts, saw how the processing is manual, I felt a deeper respect for the workers who do this. For us. And the whole time I'm thinking, did you wash your bugger-picking, butt-wiping, cell phone tapping hands? All those people got their fingertips all over my nuts. Which you can buy here. Amazon [brazil nuts].

Aside: Notice how you can always cut off the video early? They habitually go, "be sure to hit the 'like' button and subscribe, and view my other channels, and check out my web page, and do ten jumping jacks and get me a glass of wat... *click* gone.

I only just started hitting the 'like' button for videos that I actually like. Eh. It's their currency. And it's how YouTube works out what to show me.

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11 comments:

The Dude said...

Valley girl - uptalking, like, like, like, high height - mein Gott, who talks like that? Like?

But back to the subject, ignoring the messenger, I think I had a Brazil nut this century, but it's been a while. And seeing those locals sweeping them up on that "factory" floor I might continue to eschew them.

deborah said...

Amazing, depressing, disturbing. So cool they come in multiples out of the husk(?). My fave nuts are filberts. Never got the hype about macadamias. Cashews I dislike pretty much. I knew you were dying to know.

AllenS said...

So, Spanish peanuts don't come from Spain? What's this world coming to?

AllenS said...

Should have wiki-ed before posting comment. They kinda do. Maybe.

deborah said...

Now I want peanuts. Oil-roasted, salted, with red skins.

ampersand said...

That was interesting,heavily shelled nuts in a thick outer shell. I didn't know that. I was confused about them shelling the nuts until the end when he showed them in a mixed can of nuts , something I've never purchased.

chickelit said...

Last spring I made some Chex mix using my mom’s old recipe from the 1960’s. The stuff was a hit but for one aspect. I got talking to my BIL about his mom’s Chex mix and he asked me why there were no Brazil nuts in the mix. My answer was that I has just used salted mixed nuts in a can from the grocery store. In the 1960s and 70s, mixed nuts still had a few Brazil nuts. Not any more. So I went to Trader Joe’s and got me a bag of salted Brazil nuts. I made another batch of Chex mix. Perfect!

deborah said...

My mom always used regular peanuts. I made some about 20 years ago when it was 20 years out of fashion, to take to a church supper. Nobody commented. My daughter sure liked it though, which surprised me when she brought some time later.

MamaM said...

In the 1960s and 70s, mixed nuts still had a few Brazil nuts

Yes, and they were often left over at the end. We stopped making Chex Mix three years ago when carbs and gluten became an issue for us. Up to that point, making it during the holiday season was a family affair using a quadrupled recipe from my mom from the 60's only (without the Brazil nuts). It always disappeared. We used a large blue enameled roasting pan for baking, turning the mix every 15 min for two hours.

I haven't had a Brazil nut this century yet, but recall opening some in the last century as part of a bag of mixed nuts my dad would bring home around Christmas. With our recent move, I let go of the silver metal nutcracker and pick that was in our family since the 50's and sat in my drawer unused for 30+ years.

Calypso Facto said...

Beware the selenium! You can apparently "OD" from just 5 Brazil nuts: "Brazil nuts come from trees that thrive in the rich soil of the Amazon jungle. As a result, a 1-ounce serving contains 543.5 micrograms of selenium. The recommended dietary allowance, or RDA, is only 55 micrograms. The most selenium you can safely consume in one day, which is called the tolerable upper intake level, or UL, is 400 micrograms. Eating more than the UL causes selenium toxicity, or selenosis. Signs of selenosis include hair loss, skin rashes, nausea, diarrhea, fatigue and mood changes. It can progress to neurological symptoms, respiratory distress, kidney and heart failure."

ampersand said...

Get your Brazil nuts before they are banned for controversial racist insensitivity ALA Eeny, meeny, miny, moeism.