Eenie Meenie & Hazelnuts

Bethany K. Dumas dumasb at UTK.EDU
Mon Jul 10 10:42:42 UTC 2000


On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Warren Brewer wrote:

>The Eenie-Meenie-Minie-Moe thread jarred loose the memory of having heard
><<hazelnuts>> referred to as <<nigger toes>>; informant grew up in
>Maryland/D.C. area in the 1930s.

I never heard that, but as a child (40s se TX), I knew "niggertoes" as the
terms for what I later learned to call Braxil nuts (40s se TX).

Bethany



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