The Christmas Nut Bowl

Funny story. Recently I found a nutcracker at the thrift store, like in the photos in this thread, so I bought it just for fun.

Shortly thereafter the kids and grands were over, gathering for a birthday get together. One of the boys discovered it and asked what it was. I told him it was a nutcracker. With a look of horror he covered his crotch protectively and backed away! šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£
 
I made a silly purchase at a local vintage shop last year. Silly, but I couldnā€™t pass it upā€¦ a giant handmade wooden nut. By giant, I mean the thing is ~14ā€ x 8ā€ with a hinged lid and a separate hammer. It cost $12 and Iā€™ve filled it with nuts and seeds that I collect on my travelsā€¦ black walnuts, peach pits, acorns, you name it. I just adore the darned thing and the creativity of whichever woodworker made it. It adorns the table in my basement family room year-round.
 

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Did your house have one of these? Favorite nut?
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I think we just used a regular bowl but we had all the tools.
 
SueBee said:
I made a silly purchase at a local vintage shop last year. Silly, but I couldnā€™t pass it upā€¦ a giant handmade wooden acorn. By giant, I mean the thing is ~14ā€ x 8ā€ with a hinged lid and a separate hammer. It cost $12 and Iā€™ve filled it with nuts and seeds that I collect on my travelsā€¦ black walnuts, peach pits, acorns, you name it. I just adore the darned thing and the creativity of whichever woodworker made it. It adorns the table in my basement family room year-round.
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@SueBee

That nut bowl is a work of art šŸ˜Š
 
My Gr-D saw my set in the drawer and asked what it was. I explained it to her, she listened intently then said:
First you have to crack them, make a mess, dig out the nut and not poke yourself, then clean up the mess cause Mom
will be mad if you don't? No thanks, just please buy cans of plain nuts already cleaned"
How can one argue with that logic?
 
So its christmas ...but where is jesus ?? Santa got stuck up the chimney..burnt his bum on the fire ..but then he died from carbon monoxide ..cos it was a gas fire
 
dobielvr said:
I remember sitting in front of the TV cracking many pounds of walnuts. It was like a yearly tradition. We didn't have a bowl of nuts sitting around, but we little bowls of walnuts and raisins sitting around.
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Ah yea ...the days of 3 tv channels ..only1 channel with adverts
 
SueBee said:
I made a silly purchase at a local vintage shop last year. Silly, but I couldnā€™t pass it upā€¦ a giant handmade wooden nut. By giant, I mean the thing is ~14ā€ x 8ā€ with a hinged lid and a separate hammer. It cost $12 and Iā€™ve filled it with nuts and seeds that I collect on my travelsā€¦ black walnuts, peach pits, acorns, you name it. I just adore the darned thing and the creativity of whichever woodworker made it. It adorns the table in my basement family room year-round.
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Oh, I would have grabbed that SO fast!
 
@ChiroDoc, we have several types if Hickory trees on our property along with just as many Black Walnut. I made a pie the first year we moved in using the Hickory, but the cleaning was a pain to get that many. Now I leave the nuts to the squirrels.

I still have my nut cracker/pick set from my Grandma. I don't remember her having a wooden bowl, but she always set out the nuts in a crystal bowl. My favorite was the Brazil nuts.
 
Della said:
Every Christmas my mother set out a wooden bowl of nuts, a crystal bowl of candy, and one of fruit on the stereo in the living room.

Then my father would invariably come home and say, "Ho ho ho, candy fruit and nuts!" like it was a thing from a movie or something. Those forties people had their own culture. ;)
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When i was growing up at school ..we had christian assembelys sung christian hymns and carols at christmas ..the school were a white majority ..nowadays where i live .in schools white minority ..there is no christian hymns .the white minority have to listen to stuff about HALAL taught by white teachers because there better with teaching english and english subjects
 
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