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They look like peanuts (ground nuts?) to me! I don’t know if I’d want to eat roasted monkey nuts. Almost as hard on the monkeys as eating frog legs is on the froggies! 🙂

Yup, that’s what they are. I guess they used to feed them to the monkeys at the zoo <shrug>.

Thank God they don’t call them roasted elephant nuts. (elephants eat them too!)

Roasted donkey nuts would be pretty bad. I don’t know if donkeys eat peanuts, but I’d still hate to buy roasted donkey nuts.

Jimmy Carter’s nuts.

Hmmm.

What the hey. Look on the bright side. Next time the folks call you let them know you just finished some delicious “monkey nuts”.

You don’t -have- to tell them they’re peanuts. 🙂

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On the other hand what do they call peanut butter? Monkey butter? Monkey juice? Though I’m not entirely sure I want to know.

Goobers. We call them goobers in the South—a corruption of nguba—from the Congo. My father-in-law called his adored grandmother “Goober.” On account she was no bigger than a peanut.

“On the other hand what do they call peanut butter?”

Sadly, we just call it ‘peanut butter’. And I’ve never seen anyone eat it in a sandwich with jam over here. It does make a good satay sauce base.

The term ‘monkey nuts’ is always given to the ones in the shells – ordinary peanuts are unshelled.

Huh. I didn’t know that’s where “goober” came from. You hear that, Dave?

I’ve had peanut butter and goosebery jam several times since I’ve been here, JuliaM. Demonstrating for the locals. It really is a very nice combination. As is peanutbutter and banana and, in the savory direction, peanutbutter and bacon.

PB&J was on the menu at the company canteen where I last worked.

Well Stoatie, I don’ tknow what the applicable laws are, but I’m pretty sure that if you want real “nuts”, I can ship you a box of Rocky Mountain Oysters……. 😉

Eh, what do they call Brazil nuts??

and, in the savory direction, peanutbutter and bacon

Yeah, but to be fair, bacon improves pretty much anything. I saw something about bacon flavored vodka the other day. It’s like someone is trying to turn me into an alcoholic.

Off topic here, but man, baby critters are death by cute when furry and omg homely when not furry. 🙂

http://www.zooborns.com

Mustelid related: there are baby otter and baby fisher pics

“peanutbutter and bacon.”

Well, if it was good enough for Elvis….

Or, was that banana and peanut butter?

monkey nut butter, bananas and Elvis wine should go together nicely. The Austrians are here, I’ll try it out soon. I’ll let you all know how they like it.

Sounds like something Ole Doc Potter might say in exasperation: “Great roasted monkey nuts!!”

…ah, horse hockey…

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Christopher Taylor … I know that one. 🙂

I’m not going to tell you what my grandfather called Brazil nuts, because it’s politically incorrect.

Then you “know that one” too, AH. I’m not going there.

Clue me in. I don’t get it.

My mom called them that too when she was growing up.

The term ‘monkey nuts’ is always given to the ones in the shells – ordinary peanuts are unshelled.

This.

So did my mom, when I was really young. They just called them “nigger toes” for some bizarre reason in the olden days, I guess without any sense of irony or that it was insulting.

Musli, until I was twenty, I never heard them called “Brazil nuts.” The expression everyone is hemming and hawing and refusing to cough up here is an old Southern colloquialism which roughly translates “one digit of the foot of a gentleman of color.”

They call ’em Brazil nuts here. And it’s probably the only country (possibly not counting Brazil) that really, really loves ’em.

Just my luck. I’m deathly allergic.

Ha! Christopher spit it out!

Yup, that was it. If my grandmother heard my grandpa saying it that would occasion an admonitory cry of “Francis!” (His name was Francis William. Only my grandmother called him “Francis.” Everyone else called him “Bill.”)

Wow, Weez, you could do for England what Colonel R.G. Johnson did for us Yanks back in 1820.

And, on the subject of Brazil nuts: I suspect lots of people called them by the other name. I certainly didn’t know they were called anything else until I was in my early twenties.

they’re really called Brazil nuts! Learn something new everyday!

I guess in Brazil they’re just called “nuts.” Never liked them, they are too acidic. It is like a puzzle to get them out of their shell whole though.

In Brazil they probably call them Yankee Droppings, or something equally derogatory. I certainly would, if I lived there.

I’ve never heard them called that. They were just one of the many ‘fancy’ nuts in the bag assortment. We only ate the walnuts.

“Fancy nuts,” there’s a pickup line in there somewhere.