Favorite Nut for Snacking?

[walkinghorse]

What is your favorite nut for snacking?
Beverage is optional, but may influence your choice and that is certainly understandable!
As a kid I enjoyed being in a store, Sears, or similar and my Dad bought us a small bag of warm cashews. But then I could tolerate salt. Now my choice is unsalted pistachios still in the shell.

* stupid spellcheck keeps changing nut to a word that would ring my bell! I have changed it twice now and hope it stays as nut when I hit submit!!!

 

[snubbyfan]

Cashews, salt free roasted cashews. The best come from Aldi's.

I'm hopelessly addicted to them and my wife hasta dole 'em out in small containers, hiding the larger containers. Otherwise I'd sit there and eat all of them in one sitting.
They say that although there's lotsa fat in them, it's good fat. Also they have a lot of calories.
No medical reason for salt free, I just prefer them that way.

 

[4barrel]

I have two pecan trees that I get about 65 pounds of meat each year every year. Ice cream with pecans with a Coke for me. Pecans last 6 years or so in the freezer. Planters Red Skin peanuts with Coke runs a close second.

 

[gman51]

Pistachios are my favorite since it takes longer to eat a bunch of them and the taste is good also. They aren't cheap that's for sure.

 

[Rpg]

Shelled, salted pinion nuts : pricey but wonderful!!!

 

[Fishslayer]

Honey roast cashews with shelled pistachios a strong second.

Bring $$$ for either.

 

[walkin jack]

Peanuts salted in the shell would have been my answer here but I just remembered the time when in New York City I bought a bag of those warm roasted nuts from a street vendor. I could never get enough of those.....

 

[Dobie406]

When I traveled to Turkey From Belgium I started taking an empty suitcase just to fill with pistachios upon return. Really big flavorful nuts you just can't get here. Cashews are the nut of choice most often now.

 

[k22fan]

Since I'm cheap, usually the $1.99 16 ounce can of cocktail peanuts. The red skins are at least as good but messy in a car. Each can contains enough salt, oil, fat and calories to shorten my life expectancy by a month. Less often lightly salted mixed nuts.

In this blue state I wonder how long it will be before Bloomberg & his crowd spend another 11 million pushing an initiative requiring a back ground check and cooling off period before purchase of nuts. Maybe they'll require a permission slip from your wife this time.

 

[crazyphil]

Macadamia and white chocolate in a cookie. Bet you can't
eat just one.

 

[jimbo728]

+1 for cashews, salted, but Im cheap, so beer nuts will do in a pinch.
Jim

 

[loutent]

Almonds & pistachios are favorites but I like most any nut although a few
years ago we were in Charleston where we bought some boiled peanuts (I
realize they are not REAL nuts) after reading about them here on the forum -
yuk- gag - must be an acquired taste

 

[brick]

Cashews, pecans and ,when I can get my hands on it, black walnuts.

 

[Grip_Maker's_Wife]

I like all nuts but agree with many here, that in-shell pistachios are a favorite. There is a local pistachio ranch that sells a lot of flavors in their shop in town. My favorites are the chili-lime, salt and pepper, and lemon. They have a pistachio nut butter that is really good too. If you want to order online: Flavors: Buy Pistachios Online | California Grown Pistachios | Fiddyment Farms

Many nuts are grown in the valley here. One reason they are expensive is they require a lot of water. One walnut takes about 7 gallons of water to grow, while one almond requires 1 gallon. Stealing nuts has been common here for years where fully loaded hauling trailers are stolen. Farmers have had to change the way they do things and now have 24/7 security guard teams. Another agricultural item frequently stolen are artichokes. Thieves go into the fields at night, cut and steal them all.

 

[Rustyt1953]

If I want to venture back in time, I dump salted peanuts into a bottle of Coke.

Good stuff.

 

[DWalt]

Pecans, almonds, and Brazil nuts. The latter are hard to crack, so buying them shelled is recommended.

 

[Nevada Ed]

The ones inside a box of See's candy's.

 

[427mach1]

Any nut as long as it is chocolate covered. Extra points if it is dark chocolate...

 

[bearfoot]

when i was younger, cashews and pistachios.

 

[Lee's Landing Billy]

Pecans, buttered, salted, baked in a hot oven for long enough to melt the butter and turn them golden......I'm goin ta get me some NOW!