Shelled nuts are the biggest issue. Get some for real pistachios or walnuts and spend some time and energy actually getting into them and you may limit yourself. To say nothing of how, in nature, you’d EARN the calories in those nuts when you spend all that energy trying to harvest them.
My confession is that I appear to be an intervention junkie, because I keep investing myself to help someone who will ask for my advice, graciously accept it, and the very next day just do the exact same thing they were doing before. And I think @QuadQueen knows exactly who I am talking about, haha.
I’d give the benefit of the doubt. Maybe hasn’t had the chance to get to the store or get paid, and is just working with existing stock. If it’s the same in two weeks, yeah.
Because we’ve talked about this before, a recent experience came to mind. I just went on a trip to Peru, and spent some time in the Amazon. A guide showed us how they gather Brazil nuts. One has to either climb the tree and pick them off, or more commonly, walk around with a little tool that picks them up off the forest floor (picture those claw-grabbing things they give people who can’t get up, but it’s just a stick with one split end) and deposit them in a (typically hand-woven) basket they wear on their backs. And they’re only going to have the convenience of finding many that have fallen on the floor during select months of the year.
So let’s assume an hour or so to find and gather any meaningful amount, if it’s even the right time of year.
Now you have to open the things (they kind of look like coconuts). An experienced person can crack one open with a machete in about a minute. An inexperienced American will probably take 10 or so minutes. Without sharp metal tools, it will probably take one an hour.
Once you have it opened, there’s only about 15-20 nuts inside. And they sort of look like walnuts, and also have to be opened. If you have access to a nutcracker, you can open them in about 30 seconds. If not, it’ll probably take several minutes. Multiply that if you want more than one.
Finally, after a couple of hours, you can sit back, relax, and eat a reasonable handful of nuts, haha.
I believe they come from Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. Sort of where those countries meet is where the Amazon rainforest is. I don’t know if they grow outside of that environment at all.
The former, but you forgot the role that made him - Basie in Empire of the Sun. I fucking love Malkovich - his enunciation in Burn After Reading kills me every time.
