Eenie Meenie & Hazelnuts

[A. Maberry]

In Oregon in the 50-60s these would have been Brazil nuts--certainly not
filberts.

Allen
maberry at u.washington.edu

On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> hazelnuts/filberts as "nigger toes"?  they're not at all
> toe-like.  brazil nuts, which *are* toe-like, had this
> name on the [honky] streets when i was a child, pa. in the
> 1940s.
>
> arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu), charlie's nut from
>   brazil, where the aunts come from
>