Caly's sack of protein-filled goodness (not for those with allergies) (Page 2) Geoff: Who's making testicle jokes? We're in an important discussion about nuts. -- A nut is defined botanically as a fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed, where the shell does not open to release the seed (indehiscent). In a culinary context, a wide variety of dried seeds are often called nuts, but in a botanical context, only ones that include the indehiscent fruit are considered true nuts. The translation of "nut" in certain languages frequently requires paraphrases, as the word is ambiguous. Most seeds come from fruits that naturally free themselves from the shell, unlike nuts such as hazelnuts, chestnuts, and acorns, which have hard shell walls and originate from a compound ovary. Culinary usage of the term is less restrictive, and some nuts as defined in food preparation, like almonds, pecans, pistachios, walnuts, and Brazil nuts,[1] are not nuts in a botanical sense. Common usage of the term often refers to any hard-walled, edible kernel as a nut -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_(fruit)  SWlNE: I thought this would've been a thread on Seamen or Sailors but since it's on nuts I have an interesting fact. After consuming Brazilian nuts, it can cause an allergic reaction in your partner (if she's is allergic to Brazilian nuts). It is a sexually transmitted allergic reaction. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17583107 | Off Topic Chat Room Similar Conversations |
