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Know Nut November (mander.xyz)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Know nut November Day #7 - What nut is this?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago

Fortune cookies

[–] sleep_deprived 23 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Pili nut?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ding ding ding - we've got our winner for today. Thank you very much for participation. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

If you want to post another one tomorrow you are welcome to do so on [email protected]. Maybe we can make this a thing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wow I’m impressed. I consider myself a bit of a nut expert but I have never heard of this one. You really know your stuff.

Or you used computer vision and know nothing.

[–] sleep_deprived 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It was honestly just dumb luck. I had heard of these previously from a friend who had some in the Philippines. I would say, really, I do know nothing about nuts, relatively speaking :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

A friend is getting married there next year. I'll have to keep an eye out so I can try them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

These nuts are indeed not really popular but I found them in a regular supermarket in Germany a couple of years ago. As someone mentioned they're typically almost impossible to crack, so each nut already had a small canal sawed into the side and the box came with a metal lever that exactly fits into said canal. With that preparation it was quite easy to open them.

You can also buy them online prepared that way. E.g. here: https://mypilinut.com/de/products/noix-de-pili-en-coque-seau-xxl-2900g (I don't know this shop, it was just the first result on Google, so no clue if it's a fair price).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Round #2

[–] sleep_deprived 6 points 6 days ago

Green almonds, right?

[–] idunnololz 1 points 5 days ago

See you next tomorrow

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

big garlic

[–] affiliate 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

this is a particularly cruel picture for day #7. this level of difficulty should be reserved for the final days of the month

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There you go - challenge #7b just for you:

[–] affiliate 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

oh fuck i wasn’t prepared for this. but this one feels way more fair.

my gut tells me walnut

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Ding ding ding - congratulations, you got it. :) You're officially the winner #7b!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Should have made it more challenging:

(Pro tip: do NOT handle black walnut without gloves - your hands will be stained for weeks.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Should have made it more challenging

I wanted to use the heart-shaped walnut picture to cheer him up. Share some love when you nut your bros. <3

[–] Randelung 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lime nut? 🍋‍🟩 🥜

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

When my neighbor first noticed them I thought they were fruit.

Google lens suggested a thousand things that were not what it was. Japanese this, or Indian that.

It does smell very much like citrus, though.

The flesh is tough and yellow but almost immediately turns dark brown. So it was too late when I noticed my fingers had stained.

Limey nut would be an appropriate name for it.

Black walnut is a weird thing.

[–] Randelung 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wait those are walnuts??

[–] sleep_deprived 2 points 6 days ago

Yes, but not normal walnuts, black walnuts. What most people think of as walnuts, at least where I'm from, come from the Persian/English walnut tree, Juglans Regia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Those are, indeed, walnuts.