My grandparents called them attractive and successful toes...or something.

Is this where we post the desktop image of the shemale vids?

Little known fact Brazil is named for the nut, not the other way around

How do you open a Brazil nut anyway?

RoyBatty: How do you open a Brazil nut anyway?

Crack'em like you would the head of a cybernetics CEO, Roy.

Thank you, good advice.

attractive and successful African-American toes

there i said it

RoyBatty: Thank you, good advice.

never a bad time for a blade runner reference

I hate Brazil nuts.

Cerrano doesn't agree.

Tanaka: You have no... you have no...
[looks in translation book]
Tanaka: marbles! You have no marbles!
Cerrano: Marbles? Huevos?

"Ya know, where the nuts come from."

A most frustrating nut.

fta:

"....the Brazil nut tree is very sensitive to fire."

You'd think with such hard shells on the seeds the tree would have an asbestos shell.

wow, my link made it. don't jump on me, it's my first time and damn is it goooooood.
dihnekis: heh.

And do you know what will happen in the future?

Poor Brazilians will continue to destroy huge swaths of the jungle to make room for cows and crops.

er bark. asbestos bark. never mind, not funny as funny as it seemed before typing it.

Is this where we post the desktop image of the shemale vids?

I think Independent_George has some of Charlie's aunt.

Brazils. They're the "Fun-Sized Hershey Special Dark" of the mixed-nut world.


/Never saw the resemblance to toes.
//Actually prefer Hershey's Special Dark. Fark Mr. Goodbar.

Homer: I have a bladder the size of a Brazil nut.

Kidnapper: We just call them nuts here.

/got nuthin'

When I was very young, my father thought it'd be funny to tell me they were called n_gger toes. Small children, you know, tend to repeat things a bit much. So it wasn't long before I was corrected on that little matter.

This might be a little off-topic, but it reminded me. Cubans tend to think we're pretty funny to call fruta bomba "papaya." Go down to a Havana restaurant and tell the waitress you want to tuck into some papaya.

Let's get this started early:

...for Brazilians.

jackc126

Probably all the fat/oil inside the nut itself makes it even more sensitive to extreme external heat.

Kanemano:
Little known fact Brazil is named for the nut, not the other way around

Er, the country was named after a tree.

A tree found there by explorers resembled/related to a New World tree, of which they called a 'brasil' in Portuguese.

Brasil tree ( from India ) supplied the named to the country.

The Brazil nut comes the country, Brazil, hence the name.

im allergic to brazilian nuts

A tree found there by explorers resembled/related to a New World tree, of which they called a 'brasil' in Portuguese.

Ooops. That should be 'Old World tree'.

/got nuthin'

Mr. Programmer

im allergic to brazilian nuts

Then, trust me, stay the hell out of Rio during Carnival.

Unless you meant "brazil nuts," in which case, never mind.

Just sayin.'

I thought the country was named for the way that the farmers gave the land 'a Brazilian' by stripping it right down to the dirt, and then even getting rid of the roots.

Damn Straight!

My mighty huevos with a brazillion seeds.

\um, ok doc, put 'em back.

A man walks into a market and asks the grocer, "Have you got any nuts?"
"No."
"Then have you got any dates?"
"No. If I had nuts, I'd have dates."

/old joke

I hope the free market will quite being a dick to the rain forest.

I too,am old enough to remember when they were called N*****toes.

/don't have a lawn
//2.5 acres of prairie grass & cactus,barbed wire fence
///stay off it anyway

Yes, but they are radioactive.

http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/consumer%20products/brazilnuts.htm

I'll stick to peanuts.

what PhiloeBedoe said

I too am extremely allergic to Brazil nuts. It's not a pleasant site when my mouth, throat and lips swell up.

Wow, I'm...kind of shocked by how many people knew them by that term. The first I heard of it was last year when I was talking about buying some Brazil nuts and a friend of mine - we were in graduate school, mind you - said, "Wait, what are those?" I explained and she had apparently never heard the name before - her family always called them '- toes'. She was relieved she could refer to them without stumbling around phrases like 'those ones you can't open'.

All this Brazil nut/ N toes racial thingy reminds me of how the Chinese gooseberry became the Kiwi fruit.

true...

Brazil's got nuts.
Mound's don't.

About the only way to get into a Brazil nut is to use a hammer and even then work up a sweat while doing so.

On the other hand, my mother has a large macaw (big even by macaw standards). Give him a Brazil nut and he has it cracked open and is eating it in about 5 seconds.

Awe inspiring.

Awe inspiring.

Meh. Five seconds to bust a nut? Impressive, but not a record.

/I miss high school anyway

tomatoboy
Holy crap. I've recently rediscovered them and have been eating them like crazy.

My mother-in-law is a nurse and she's says that while some people have bad reactions to barium, most people just get a little constipated.

I'll have to watch that. :P

I was hoping to see some Brazilian nuts.....

negro toes

Apparently one of my mom's sisters had the younger one convinced that Brazil nuts actually WERE dried-out "****** toes" for a while, as a result she got to eat them all herself. Very naughty.

/not a lot of blacks in rural Ontario c. 1965, so who knew WHAT their toes looked like?

Meh. When they can make fuel out of them, then we got something.

Surprised no one else said this - freeze your Brazil nuts, then a moderate rap with a hammer will have them popping out of that tough skin in no time flat.

leave my nuts alone.

well, some of you can play with them.

but no biting!

How about a little less crackin that whip and a little more studying them books massah!

I used my dad's metal-working vise to open Brazil nuts when I was a kid. I still smell the tool oil when I see a Brazil nut today.
betona: Your spelling is not a pleasant sight either.

hahah i was just having a conversation the other day with my girlfriend about whether or not she and/or her family/friends called them attractive and successful African-American toes. She didn't and so I was thinking it was just something from my neck of the woods.

as far as how to open them. i read something a while back about tossing them in boiling water for a minute. Or try freezing them, and just take out what you want. They crack easier frozen.