rank the nuts

[Undertoad]

1. Cashew
2. Chestnut
3. Macadamia
4. Pecan
5. Walnut
6. Peanut
7. Almond
8. Hazelnut
9. Pistachio
10. Pine Nuts

list on Wikipedia

[regular.joe]

1. Cashew
2. Almond
3. Pecan
4. Hazelnut
5. Pistachio
6. Peanut
7. walnut
8. Chestnut
9. Pine Nuts

[glatt]

1 pistachio
2 cashew
3 almond
4 pecan
5 peanut
6 macadamia
7 pine nut
8 walnut
9 brazil nut

[Sundae]

None.
Although I will tolerate pinenuts as they usually come in very small portions.

Anyway, aren't some of those nuts technically fruit.
Or maybe I'm thinking of beans.

[monster]

where's wolf when you need her?

[Gravdigr]

1. Peanuts
2. Chocolate-covered peanuts
3. Honey-roasted peanuts
4. Cashews
5. Chocolate-covered cashews
6. Stark-raving nuts
7. ƒucking nuts
8. Deez nuts
9. Chock-fulla nuts
10. You buncha nuts

[orthodoc]

1. Walnuts (in oatmeal)
2. Cashews
3. Pistachios
4. Almonds
5. Honey-roasted peanuts (yes, they're legumes, but still yum)
6. All the rest, none of which particularly float my boat.

[Lamplighter]

1. GrapeNuts
2. Speed Nuts
3. Lug Nuts
4. Corn Nuts
5. Honey Nuts
6. Wing Nuts
7. Hydrolic Nut Spliters
8. Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, etc.
9. The Nut Before Christmas

And lastly, there has to be at least one reference to the obvious...
10. Tanuki

[Urbane Guerrilla]

No ranking, just some subjective remarks. Walnuts too bitter, prefer pecans usually.
Peanuts, most kinds of seasoning. Very fond of chile & lime.
Of the fall nut mixes, I used to like the filberts and almonds best. Mostly don't care to, now.
Brazil nuts may be big and meaty but the meat itself isn't worth that kind of bother, to my palate.
I only ever get macadamias surrounded by a matrix of cookie. I guess they're all right.
Pistachios I'm fond of, especially since they stopped coloring them with that red dye.

[Spexxvet]

1. Cashew
2. Macadamia
3. Pistachio
4. Pecan
5. Walnut
6. Almond
7. Hazelnut
8. Peanut
9. Brazil nut
10. Pine Nuts

[Undertoad]

All correctly-thinking people are putting cashew first or second... or contaminating this process with chocolate or honey which are clearly additives

J & I recently were amazed to learn that the cashew grows in a shell at the bottom of a "cashew apple", a tropical fruit we don't normally see:

[lumberjim]

And isn't that Apple poison to us?

[Undertoad]

No, it turns out they are just not industry-friendly!

The cashew apple is a soft fruit, rich in nutrients, and contains five times more vitamin C than an orange. It is eaten fresh, cooked in curries, or fermented into vinegar, as well as an alcoholic drink. It is also used to make preserves, chutneys, and jams in some countries such as India and Brazil. In many countries, particularly in South America, the cashew apple is used to flavor drinks, both alcoholic and nonalcoholic. In Brazil, it is a popular fruit flavor for the national drink, the caipirinha.

In much of South America, people regard the cashew apple as the delicacy, rather than the nut kernel which is popular elsewhere. In fact, in many South American countries, the cashew apple is more popular as a food than is the cashew nut. A large reason for this is simply the availability of cashew apples. They tend to be popular where they are readily available.

Cashew nuts are more popular than cashew apples in many parts of the world—regions that do not grow cashews—because the fruit, unlike the nut, is difficult to transport to these places. Unlike cashew nuts, cashew apples are extremely soft and easily bruised in shipment. For this reason, cashew juice and cashew juice concentrate are often shipped to these nonlocal countries instead of the fresh fruit.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

And isn't that Apple poison to us?

I also remember learning that the cashew fruit is poisonous.

Wonder where I was taught that.

[glatt]

Huh. A google search turns up that the cashew nut shell is extremely poisonous, and will contaminate the cashew when the shell is removed, so the raw cashew is also poisonous, but roasting it breaks down the poison.

The cashew fruit is not poisonous, but when eating the fruit, if you accidentally brush your cheek up against the cashew part, you get a rash and blisters on your cheek.

So it's a little complicated.