I love Brazil nuts; they’re one of the lower-carb ones, and a great snack on a low-carb diet.
If I recall, those were hard to crack, too. I’ve never bought them in-the-shell, but sometimes our stockings had a mixture of nuts, not just walnuts. My Grandmother always made our stockings up at Christmas, and I think nuts were something she didn’t get much of as a child herself, so they were a special ‘holiday’ thing. :-)
Agree with the Brazil nuts. if I could get away with snagging all of them from the mixed nut bowl I'd have been happy. Claw hammer to smash the shells and nut picks to dig out the meat. How they get the meat whole from those shells remains one of my deeply mystifying mysteries.
Correct. Brazil Nuts require a sledge hammer to crack and extracting the meat a challenge. Good deterrent when attempting to defend yourself. Hard as a rock. You wouldn’t want one thrown at you. In today’s PC world they go by Brazil nuts. In the ‘olden’ days they were known by another name (which was what we kids called them) An enigma: when and why the change of common name usage; which came first? Brazil nuts?