What's your favorite kind of nut?
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Definitely, macadamia nuts. They taste like butter.
Pistachios.
Oily, fresh, salty, warm, is how I used to eat them.
Unfortunately they no longer fit (together with another favorite, the cashew) in my diet.
Pistachios,almonds and cashews.
That was a seriously surrealistic and absurdly fun panel show, Shooting Stars!
Yep, used to love the show!
walnuts and brazil nuts are my favorite.
Pistachios. But almonds are the best with chocolate and other sweets. :)
Hexagonal do it for me, I even have specially designed tools to enjoy them..
Deez Nuts.
I’m allergic to a certain tree nut so there is always an off chance I’ll come across a fragment in any so I can’t have them unless I know the source has not been cross contaminated.
Hmm. It’s probably a tie, Brazil nuts, and cashews.
I LOVE Pecan Pie. But that has other ingredients.
Almonds…fresh, roasted, ingredient, butter
Pistachios, pecans, almonds, walnuts are my top four.
Hickory nuts! I love them, but hickory trees are going extinct, so nobody sells them.
Next in line is pistachios.
No, wait it is a tie for first place.
Luke, you too are my favorite kind of nut.
Any kind of “comfort” nuts is fine by me! They include: almonds, peas, walnuts, macadamia, chestnuts…
Do you remember when pistachios were dyed bright red and they would stain your fingers?
^They still are, in some places.
I don’t know why they are dyed.
Like sugar being dyed white, with animal bones…
Sugar gets its white color from either centrifuging or bone char filters. Why vegans can’t have some sugars.
^ Did not know that. Kind of disturbing.
It’s weird if you think about it.
But also not that weird if you think about it some more. It’s basically just a charcoal filter. And it makes sense to make it from animal bones instead of wasting the bones. Think about how much meat is eaten. Finding a way to use the bones is actually rather resourceful.
^ Sure, nice recycling – but still, that’s creepy. I hope I forget about this by the time I’m back in the U.S.
Yeah. I used to work with several vegetarians. They taught me lots of disturbing facts, about food. It doesn’t really matter to me. I’ve accepted my place, on the food chain. I’m not always at the top, depending on where I am. So, I make no apologies for eating anything. I wish it weren’t so cruel, in many cases…
@MrGrimm888 There is so much misinformation and lies about food it’s shocking. I was a vegetarian and vegan several times in my life and have come to the conclusion that being vegan is just as unhealthy as eating a crappy diet or even worse. SOOOO much propaganda out there. A vegetarian diet is workable but not ideal. Eating the bones is probably good for you. Every time I open a can of sardines I eat the bones and all. My lipid profile is better now than when I was a vegan. I eat the hell out of some chicken too and sometimes even beef. Something that’s been a common denominatior I have noticed with vegans who have been on the diet for a while with no cheating is…..depression. Almost a guarantee that will happen on that diet.
I have never been vegan, but I’ve known several. They all looked pale, anemic and it seemed like they were on a slow starvation diet.
They probably were. We evolved to eat meat as a necessary nutrition. Like cats. You can’t just change millions of years of evolution with a change in diet.
AYKM. I understand, and agree with you. You can’t choose that were born an omnivorous animal.
Dutch. Well stated.
Vegetarian diets are very easily managable for most people. I stopped eating meat when I was five, and I’ve had perfect bloodwork ever since. Over human history, meat was a rare treat for most of the general population. The diet we rich societies have available today is unprecedented, in both quantity and convenience. So the argument of meat consumption being “natural” is to be taken with a grain of salt.
Vegan diets need a bit more attention. However, they too can be very healthy with a little forethought. Almost everything our bodies need, we can get from plants.
It’s interesting how there’s still such a widespread belief of vegetarians or vegans being at risk. I think if I informed you all that I’m going to abstain from flaxseed, most would assume that’s not a big deal. And yet, flaxseed is a source of omega-3 fatty acids – similar to seafood. Becoming a vegetarian still worries many people, mostly because they don’t realise that we don’t need 15 different sources of essential nutrients. We need exactly one, and enough of that.
I know a lot of vegetarians who are quite healthy. I just wasn’t one of them.
Raised as a omnivore, I got this notion to give up meat when we had our first kid. Liked the idea of giving them the choice whether to eat meat or not.
Sounds nice and all. But I made the mistake of thinking being vegetarian is just giving up meat. It’s more involved that that. Like @longgone mentioned, it requires a bit more forethought. More forethought that I’m used to giving my food.
Conclusion after this little experiment, being a vegetarian requires a decent level of executive functioning skills. Ha.
I was a healthy vegetarian for years and years until I got pregnant, then the cravings for red meat became overwhelming. Kind of aRosemary’s Baby thing.
I was vegan for a time but I, personally, didn’t thrive. Some of my friends are, however, and are quite healthy. The whole nutrition thing for humans is way more complex than to simply say “Humans are omnivores. End of story.”
It has been my experience that those vegans who thrive….. cheat on their diet or are not actually thriving. We are omnivores….but most people do eat waaay too much fatty, processed meat and in too large of portions.
I think a “vegetarian” diet can work if planned properly and enough dairy and especially eggs are included. I would say a pesco diet could really work long-term.
It’s not true that meat was a rare thing, it was a neolithic staple. Meat and cooked food is suspected of being responsible for early human development. They certainly did not supplement B vitamins back then like vegans should be doing now.
I get the whole responsibility and animal cruelty thing but IMO a vegan diet is a health risk that is not worth taking and certainly should not be as widely promoted as it is. Most people who stick to it will see negative health consequences even if they see temporary improvements over the S.A.D.
I’m not going to do the work of looking for links that explain how easy it is to get the proper nutrition on a vegetarian and vegan diet. There is so much information out there that just proves you wrong: movies, books, articles. Do some research. (Though I expect you won’t because you want to hold on to your ideology that isn’t supported by facts.) Anyone not thriving on a vegan diet is doing it wrong, or they have certain kinds of medical conditions. You can get all the nutrition you need from plants, except for B12. I mean you could, you’d just have to eat way more veggies than one could actually consume in a day, which is why vegans and vegetarians should take a supplement. And before you say, “oH yOu SHoUldn’T HAve TO taKE a suPpLeMenT,” Omnivores need to take supplements, too.
Also, yes, we did evolve to be omnivores, but not to eat cows, chickens, pigs, etc. We are primates. The only animals we should be eating, if you want to talk evolution, are bugs and insects. I recently read a few articles that argued most early humans were vegetarians and another that indicated it was eating bugs that helped humans build bigger brains.
Now, I know fluther “experts” love to spout ideas not supported by facts, but when you are just flat out wrong about something that to me is a moral standing, expect to be confronted.
And my favorite nut is a walnut, then cashews.
The idea of being a vegan to me is, well, a hard no. I’ll pretty much eat most any animal. Cow, chicken, pig, bird, rabbit, your cat and your dog too.
@CoolHand I’ll have to fight ya now! Cats and dogs!?!
@Coolhandluke I was addressing people in this thread insisting vegans cannot be healthy. At least you’re not a hypocrite about it. People who have no qualms eating farmed animals, but get all up-in-arms over people eating dogs have some serious cognitive dissonance going on.
If there was an apocalyptic scenario, I’d eat people too…I wouldn’t like it. But I’m a survivor…
Smoked almonds, cashews and walnuts!!
Almonds, are a great source of nutrients. I am highly recommend them, as snack food… Plain almonds…
@cookieman Yes I remember those, and I haven’t seen those in sometime now. I remember my Brother hiding them from me, he would always say he didn’t have any, but his finger tips were red from the shells…jerk lol
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