Ranking Nuts

1]Pecans
2]Almonds
3]Walnuts
4]Cashews ... first 4 maybe a tie
5]Peanuts ... ironic so low on the list, I eat a lot of them and I get tired of 'favorites' pretty quickly, while it's hard for me to tire of peanuts. Recently I have been roasting raw peanuts, there's something about having them warm that floats my boat
6]Coconuts ... maybe Mom made too many deserts with coconut flakes back in the day, but my leas favorite for sure

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As perhaps the closest thing we got to a resident botanist here, I have to cry foul on your poll as at least half of those aren't nuts. Walnuts, coconuts, maybe almonds are in the same family (not scientific classification "family") as peaches, raspberries, and, somewhat hysterically, coffee beans, which are not beans at all.

Well, it makes more sense to classify such things by use:

Nuts: anything you'd find in a mixed nut bowl.

Fruit, anything sweet(ish) and tasty not found in a bowl of mixed nuts.

So almonds, Brazil nuts, peanuts, cashews, walnuts, pecans, etc are nuts, but coconuts and raspberries are fruits.

Coffee is in a class of its own: Coffee :)

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1) Pecan
2) Cashew
3) Almond
4) Coconut
5) Peanut
6) Walnut


I would put Pistachio and Macadamia ahead of all of those.

Pistachios are a lot of work. I hate the ones that aren't opened. I feel like I got ripped off.

Apparently, Macadamia's are impossible for human's to open without serious tools. However, there are some birds who can do it. I suspect you have to watch your fingers around them.

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Reminds me, that I still have never tried a Macadamia nut. I sent some to my nephew but never ate one myself.

(still working out my nut order)

They are great covered in chocolate. When whole, they can be the size of a big marble. Processing and preparing them is very labor intensive, so they are expensive.

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... Screw you, walnuts =p

+1 That's some good stuff. I've eaten a lot of things with walnuts in them, but never "loved" something because it had walnuts in it. They are like the celery of the nut world.

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They are like the celery of the nut world.

Genuinely laughed out loud XD

I happen to quite like water sticks. The white right near the end? Delicious. The green parts suck, though. Too fibrous. Then again, I eat lettuce plain and green peppers like an apple, so there's that.

Let's just all agree that walnuts are stupid.

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Nuts: anything you'd find in a mixed nut bowl.

Fruit, anything sweet(ish) and tasty not found in a bowl of mixed nuts.

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Well, it makes more sense to classify such things by use

So, Fruitcake = paperweight

Usually walnuts (most hated nut around here) is in fruitcakes.

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So, Fruitcake = paperweight

Yes, but it's also a biohazard and probably bad for children and pets.

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Usually walnuts (most hated nut around here) is in fruitcakes.

That would make it the least objectionable part of fruitcake.

I never understood how such a mistake could've been made.

Imagine a nice, fluffy angel food, or maybe just a regular ol' moist yellow. Get some soft peach chunks, maybe crisp apple in there. Hell, add cherries or even pears. Maybe all of the above. No icing, maybe the lightest of glazes.

That sounds delicious, and would be a fruit cake. Where did it all go so wrong?

I bet that's what fruitcake originally was, and then some a$$^%#@ said "Hey, how about we add walnuts!". Then look what happened...

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You beat me too it. The only nuts I eat
is peanut butter and it's a legume, not
a nut.

You know, I don't like peanuts either. Not even peanut butter, save for the 5% nut / 95% sugar concoction that is the peanut butter in a Reese's Cup. But, I do fancy plain shelled peanuts at one particular bar and at my local race track. At those two places, I typically eat like 10 dozen of the bastards, but only ever at those two places.