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The flavor that fooled your tongue into trusting things that are technically seeds.
means Tasting or smelling like nuts; or, of a person or idea, eccentric to the point of mild madness.
from From "nut," an Old English word (hnutu) for the hard-shelled fruit, sibling to Dutch noot and German Nuss. The food sense is straightforward — like a nut. The "crazy" sense grew from older slang where "nut" meant the head (as in "off your nut"), so a nutty person was, quite literally, wrong in the head.
- botanical lie
- Most culinary nuts are seeds, not true nuts
- true nuts
- Acorns, chestnuts, hazelnuts qualify; almonds don't
- slang origin
- Meant crazy by the 1800s, head equals nut
- maillard magic
- Roasting creates nutty notes via browning reactions
- peanut twist
- Peanuts are legumes, kin to beans and lentils
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pistachio mafia sicily — italian organized crime controlling bronte pistachio production, convicted members 2009