I probably would be a pecan addict… That’s even better than walnuts! Only ate it once in my life, I guess? As I never met it until a few years ago, it’s still not very available here and I have walnuts and try to stay close to carnivore… So I just don’t buy it ever. Maybe in December? That’s such a relaxed month for me…
I don’t even know how macadamia nuts taste like… I surely had them in some nut mix before but it wasn’t memorable, it seems. But pecans were The Best. Almost walnuts just even better. Though walnuts aren’t all the same either, good walnuts are quite great and walnut is my number 2 nut, only slightly losing to pecan even if I compare the average walnut to the awesome pecan I ate once. And walnut trees are everywhere around here. I meet dozens if I take a walk and almost everyone with a garden has 1-2 walnut trees (but not me! well I have but they are babies still and walnut trees take their sweet time to grow and bear fruit and produce a spectacular view and shade… they are very pretty, majestic, useful trees when they become big!).
@robintemplin: Thank you!!! I am so happy my silly internet+food addiction writings have some value. I try and sometimes I can be mildly informative and more or less entertaining as far as I can tell but probably repetitive and boring too, I don’t know. I do think about food and my eating way too much… But with these exciting topics and views in this forum? I have no chance. It’s a good place. If I am addicted to some forum again, at least it should widen my horizon and entertain me, make me think… I had it way worse in my past.
To me, eating grains seem a challenge, I can’t imagine how utterly desperate our anchestors had to be to work hard with those few hard seeds to convert them into some not good but edible stuff…
Nuts are loads better. Even if they are tricky walnuts where a big part just doesn’t come out due to the weird shape (normal noble walnuts aren’t like that but there are plenty worse ones) and there is a disease where the outer husk stick to the seed. That isn’t fun to crack but I did it when ALL the nuts were like that and I ate all the 2 years old walnuts… As walnuts last for years when not broken and kept at a moderately dry place. We keep them outside in winter (not exactly dry but not buried in the mud, it’s enough) and they are fine. (The diseased ones spoil easily, though. And the very big ones as well, for some reason, it seems. But most of them are just as good after 2 years as fresh.)
I just looked at the article…
Pick walnuts off tree or the ground underneath, and you’ll have green, smelly hands for a day or two.
I never ever heard about such things… They must have VERY different walnuts so I will talk about ours. I would LOVE to pick walnuts with a green husk these bad years! That’s awesome, pure joy here! Try some black one stuck to it, still wet, it’s like mud just way more sticky… This year is better but I still can’t be choosy if I want a decent amount of walnuts after 2 very bad years… 3 years ago it was all fine and dandy… And the stuck insides were great food for the tits… Chickadee, that’s the other word. But tit sounds better. We have blue and great tits and it NEVER gets old 
Nope, the green husk simply dries, it doesn’t make any mess, normally. I saw still wet green husks sometimes, no big deal, no smell either as far as I can tell. And it’s rare. Most walnuts (in proper years) simply fall out of the totally cracked, opened and dried husks and you can pick up a clean, beautiful seed (well maybe with some black threadlike things but that’s still okay just less beautiful. but it’s usually very beautiful right from below the tree!). Unless it fell into the mud or something. I still pick them up, no big deal, I don’t expect collecting walnuts after a storm (when they fall in bigger amounts) to be a totally clean job… Sometimes the husk is there but very much cracked and it’s a tiny movement to get out the seed. I found one with a not cracked green one this year. And several black ones, the wet stuff is something I just can’t handle but eventually it dries and the seed may or may not be available. If it still stuck to it, I give up as I can crack those but it’s awful and I did it in the last 2 years, no more. We both got used to longer walnutless periods already.
But it often come out with some effort… At least partially and that’s good enough for me, I just crack the half-stuck ones first before they spoil.
With little work I get a lot of nice, calorie-rich, ready to eat walnuts (I don’t care about soaking, that’s so raw veganism to me my fav was soaking and drying poppy seeds… yeah, sure. I sprouted them instead but that was such a chore too) while all vegetables need a lot of work for the little nothing they provide… Especially in my garden where the soil is still bad. If nothing else, they want to get watered. Nuts and fruit trees are just there, bearing lots of fruit without nearly any work being done on them. I know that’s not the norm but I do it like that. This year was weak but usually I have way too much fruit and they are extremely tasty. Only the best fruits can compete with pork if it’s about tastiness according to my tastebuds and I have some of those best fruits… Even the sugar can’t ruin the tastiness. It just makes the eating harder and less tempting (the looks work against that though) but the flavors are there, being amazing so no regrets when I get over of that problem.
Ooops, I started to write about my love towards fruit again. At least I am not in the carni thread (multiple threads but usually one, sometimes 2 current ones at a time), I did it so many times there during the years…
Maybe I take shots tomorrow about some walnuts. I have a real beauty too, it’s my favorite kind but it’s rare. A neighbor has such a tree (and a normal one). A round walnut without any hint of blackness, thin, super easy to break shell and easy to get out tasty inside… But the normal nuts are pretty too, at least they were all my life until 3 years ago. It’s a half-black year now (or more like 3/4? most trees are full black, some are partially black and some are normal) but after the 2 pure black ones I am glad… Walnuts are quite expensive now, sometimes even more expensive than almonds.
Oh well, poor ones always can eat poppy seeds here, that’s cheap and tasty though nothing like walnuts. But many desserts using walnuts can be made with poppy seeds as well. Walnuts are more versatile as they are fine in savory things while poppy seeds have very little roles there. I added some to mixed oily seed wafers and it can go on top of neutral or salty baked things (though I had no idea about that in my childhood, we put them inside in big amounts instead) but that’s it. Oh now I miss my poppy seed “pasta” (the pasta is eggs, of course, me being me. and poppy seed, it’s a good flour and can be used alone. poppy seed flour, the reduced fat thing isn’t so good. I find most oily seed flours bad tasting even if the oily seed is very tasty)…
By the way, harvesting poppy seeds isn’t the best thing, I strongly prefer walnuts… Especially bad if we just don’t use chemicals and the typical pest infection happens (and we did kill a lot or else we would have no harvest at all)… But the flowers are pretty and it’s very easy to grow (but the seeds are cheap to buy and they are everywhere so I wouldn’t grow them)… It seems they are called opium poppies… Okay, those. The stuff that contains the seeds has the drug, the seeds contain trace amounts, maybe? One would get bellyache from overeating calories before it could cause any problems for a normal person.
I just put it here, maybe you don’t all know this. We always grew our own poppy seeds and we used a lot! 
I typically use 120g a week for my SO’s breakfast cake (one breakfast cake and a tiny extra), I barely eat any ever but some people use it galore at Christmas, it’s traditional.
One thing I learned in this forum is that some people are that damn fragile. Getting sick from a little piece of vegetable, being very sensitive to the ratio of fat or the amount of salt, sweeteners wreak havoc… I saw a lot of problem with oxalates in the carni threads too…
In general? We probably aren’t so fragile indeed, humans are good at surviving on very different diets. Even the worst common ones keep people alive for a long time. They still can damage people, of course and some people want optimal health. And then come different beliefs, I don’t go into this… But some people really experience big problems when using various items even in tiny amounts.
And it’s often easier, better to completely avoid certain food groups or individual items. I understand it even though I love doing things not completely. But I can get away with it, usually. Sometimes it’s a slipperly slope… And others aren’t me.
