nuts

i've been eating more nuts than i usually do this week... nuts are not cheap and my food budget has been mostly cheap (though there are rib-eye steaks and salmon filets and crab cakes and other not-cheap food items in the fridge or freezer... food is the very last place i economize and while i have been seriously economizing even in the food area, i allow a few splurge items every shopping trip... i've just cut down shopping trips to a couple a month, instead of every few days or even daily... anyway, where was i?)...

nuts, yes, more nuts than usual... kirkland brand (costco store brand) extra fancy unsalted mixed nuts, to be precise... still way too many almonds for it to be a true deluxe extra fancy mix, which is a rip off because almonds are one of the less expensive nuts, but no peanuts and a fair amount of cashews and pecans... maybe 2% pistachios, if that much... they cheat by putting different kinds of almonds, roasted, blanched, raw, even halves, so the mix looks like it's got different kinds of nuts, but it's more than 60% almonds, at least... no macadamian, no brazil, no hazelnuts, no walnuts, and so on (there are so many nuts in this world, after all... and i am not even considering alien nuts or nuts that are not really nuts but generally considered to be nuts, ya know?... i mean, the four nuts in this nut mix are not actual nuts, but nut-like drupe seeds, but this technical biological stuff is knowledge not needed to enjoy the nuts, or drupes, in this case... ain't language wonderful?... and biology?... and science?... and maybe i ought to just close the parentheses now and see if this entry had any point at all, aye?)...

ok, to be fair, the label only lists cashews, almonds, pistachios, and pecans, but the percentages i'd estimate are 60% almonds, 30% cashews, 9% pecans, and 1% (if that much) pistachios... and you might already know pistachios are my favorite nut... so i should ahve looked a lot closer at the container and not just assumed it would be a more balanced mix, aye?... pistachios have gotten so dang expensive though, alas... lament and all... anyway, i've been eating more nuts lately... cuz you just had to know this, right?... so have papayas, one of my favorite fruits, right up there with pineapples and cherries and... but this is an entry about nuts, well, kinda sort of (at least what most of us call nuts, ya know), so we won't go into fruits just now, m'ok?...

narf :)