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unpopularopinion·Unpopular OpinionbyAgosagror

Nuts are just bad.

I hate nuts. I'm not allergic to them.

Everything about them is wrong, I've never had food that contained nuts that wouldn't have been significantly better without them.

Chocolate with nuts - What was wrong with just the former

Nuts on their own - Might as well eat wood

Nutbars - gross.

Food with nuts is just bad, and the sooner we move on from this dated cultural institution the better.

This was inspired by the last two posts

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One of the elders becomes senile and starts a Buddhist dancing cult among the tanuki who are unable to transform, eventually sailing away with them in a ship that takes them to their deaths.

Yeah, it sounds like an interesting one. Kind of fern gully-ish.

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Upvote but hard disagree. Nuts are amazing. Plant one walnut tree get 1000s of walnuts every year that have a naturally long shelf life. They have lots of very healthy fats etc

Similar for other nuts.

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lemmy.world

Some of the postings in this Community are starting to get absurd. I'm going to make one that says I love murder and I hate babies next.

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I'm happy they exist I just don't think they're cute and don't ask me to hold one.

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This was inspired by the last two posts

Yes, you guys have created some truly unpopular posts

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Well its certainly an unpopular opinion I'll give you that. Nuts are fantastic in both flavour and nutritional value.

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Upvoted cause I heavily disagree with this. Cashews and almonds are the best snack ever. Almond Joys are the best chocolate candy bar.

Nutella, nuff said.

To compare them to eating wood is absurd. Your taste palate must be ruined.

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Chocolate peanuts are heavenly, and a good peanut brittle is class. Fuck you, with your shite opinion.

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lemmy.ca

Nuts on their own - Might as well eat wood

Depends how old they are and/or how they were shipped. My local bulk store recently switched almond suppliers and the new ones are soooooo much better (from California to Spain). It's like night and day... before it was like eating gravel, but it was fine because that was just what gravel tasted like... but the revelation that almonds can actually taste like almonds is, well... I can never go back. Walnuts are not wood, fresh walnuts are bomb. Pecans are AMAZING with raisins. Almonds are total shit unless you can find the good ones from the good Spanish supplier.

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AA5Breply
lemmy.world

That’s a good point. I’ve noticed that almonds in particular loose their freshness, their flavor, quickly

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rapcheereply
lemmy.world

i've only had european almonds (afaik), but my experience was the older they were, the stronger their flavour was, the more they dry out, the stronger it gets

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I just remembered, the ones from cali were steamed or something, which turned them into gravel.

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lemmy.world

Upvoted because I'm jealous. I can't have nuts in the house because twin is allergic to tree nuts and I love her just enough to remove all them from the house so I can't cross contaminant anything accidentally. Would be easier if I hated them but boy I miss walnuts.

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scytalereply
piefed.zip

Interesting that only one of you has allergies. When did you realize?

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I was the healthier baby and now the 'healthier' adult. Er, my immune system was better at least. I an not healthy lol.

Twin always reacted much stronger to the cats than I did so they got a full workup as a kid. The tree nuts started at pine nuts but expanded over the years.

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RebekahWSDreply
lemmy.world

Cause quite often I love my twin! Sometimes I'd like to throw them into low earth orbit but not over the nuts!

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No one would blame you if you drive them into a beautiful wooded area and let them free then go and buy nuts though.

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Mother has said I can only murder twin over lack of them doing chores, not over allergies!

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lmmarsanoreply
lemmynsfw.com

because twin is allergic to tree nuts

Why not get that treated? Leaving it untreated isn't helping unless it's not possible. Immunotherapy for this exists.

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Counterpoint: pistachios. Just the shell without the pistachio nut would be a lot less interesting.

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lemmy.world

Yep, they kinda taste woody. What's wrong with eating wood tho? Trust me, if I could actually draw nutrition from wood, I would xD

But also, nuts have hella different texture. Only nut I hate is pistachio as of now, didn't taste them all after all.

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Love them. I don't find them woody tasting. My daughter's girlfriend is allergic to nuts so I don't cook with them much now (they are living here) and I miss them.

I don't usually just want a handful but they make food better not worse.

Walnuts or pecans, such a pleasant texture in cinnamon rolls or banana bread, cookies.

Almonds are delicious with green beans.

Cashew butter makes better cream of mushroom soup than cream does, and I say this as a lover of cream, milk, cheese.

They are high in calories and nutrition for something that grows on a tree, too.

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So I tried to think of the top three things that I really enjoy with nuts in them:

  1. Ice cream with hardening chocolate sauce and crushed peanuts sprinkled on top (sooo good)
  2. Almond Roca (toffee plus chocolate plus nuts)
  3. Whitefish with almonds on top. (I know I'm not describing this very well, but I've had several fish with nuts on top that have been truly outstanding.)
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I hate nuts in & on food. But I love eating nuts by themselves. I am very picky about the type of nuts I like. Nuts are actually super good for you.

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You might have a thing called taste, which is not really an opinion.

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I agree with this with my exception being peanut butter which I love. My favorite snacks always involve peanut butter.

But plain nuts are gross. And I’m sick of everyone’s instance on putting nuts in salad 🤮

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discuss.tchncs.de

I like pretty much none of them in my foods or deserts.

Some flavors of almonds or pistachios are straight fire, tho. They gotta have a flavor added, though.

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Pistachios are closest to tasting good with nothing on them, but they taste so much better with a bit of flavor. Like a steak that had no salt or pepper or anything. It's edible, but there's a reason no one eats it that way.

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piefed.social

Overall I disagree (so upvoted), but I do have to agree that chocolate is generally better without nuts in it.

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AA5Breply
lemmy.world

My ex-monster-in-law used to make this candy that was amazing. Simply chocolate coated peanuts but the critical ingredient was salted cocktail peanuts. They had the perfect salt and texture to perfectly complement the chocolate!

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Unfortunately my source is no longer available to me

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When I saw that post about fruits and chocolate, I immediately thought about chocolate bars that have nuts in them. Brilliant combination IMO, but apparently that’s a reasonably popular opinion.

Anyway, if you were the emperor of the world and you found the person who invented nut chocolate, what would be their punishment?

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You get to avoid things like the cyanide found in almonds by not eating nuts, hey.

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