Latest Moan From You and Me 2023

I agree. We buy them in smaller packets to try and control our addiction .

Stupid price in Tesco. 200g for £2.75 or 300g for £3.

 

To late for me I'm already addicted

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We try to assuage the craving with changing to pecan nuts.

 

@shiney is that an anagram of sausage

 

Costs passed on to customer!!
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Are they trying to say this situation wasn't foreseeable and people haven't been banging the drum about it for decades?! Bloody government, utility companies and councils all responsible for this, not the customers.

 

They're fascinating to see when they're on the tree.



The fruit can be eaten fresh or cooked but needs careful handling as it is the skin that contains the poison/irritant (the amount of irritant depends on the age of the fruit).

In some countries they make a liqueur out of the fruit. For that the fruit needs to be very ripe, usually judged by having dropped off the tree, before pressing. The old traditional way used to be pressing by feet similar to the old way of making wine. The juice can be drunk as juice, can be a bit acidic, or then distilled into the liqueur. I wasn't keen on the taste of the fruit or the juice.

 

@JJ28 We've seen them in a number of countries but they were more intensively farmed when we were in Zanzibar and Fortaleza, Brazil. Although we bought the tastiest brazil nuts in the street market in Salvador, Brazil.

This slightly faded photo is one I took in the market in Salvador over 40 years ago

 

Peanuts are legumes in the same family as peas and beans. The actual peanut pods grow underground, hence why they are also called groundnuts.

 

The lawyers and media make plenty of money from these long drawn out inquests, they keep spinning them out as long as the public keep buying newspapers and tuning into the bbc news. For me I couldn't care less, it's far too late to do anything now. There is never any conclusive end to anything like this.