Dislikes: Nuts

I do not like nuts. 

I don't mind a few honey roasted peanuts or maybe some cashews but, mostly I just don't like nuts.

I don't like them in cakes or cookies, bread or, I don't know - salad maybe.  I don't even like crunchy peanut butter.  No peanut brittle.  No fudge - walnuts are THE worst!

My mom adores this crap called Pea & Peanut salad.  Peas, peanuts and mayonaise mixed together?  YULK!  And she says to me "How can you not like this?  You LOVE peas!"  And I do love peas but, for as much as I love peas, I hate peanuts even more!

I have heard it all!  Banana Bread without nuts?  Chocolate chip cookies, without nuts?  You don't eat Pecan Pie?  What about Zucchini Bread?  That without nuts too!  Oh Brownies aren't the same without nuts!  Yes they are, they're BETTER!

I don't even drink nut flavored coffee or coffee creamer!  Do you believe that?  No Hazelnut (I also think French Vanilla is gross) but, oddly Amaretto or almond flavoring doesn't bother me - and I totally love cinnamon roasted almonds but, I will not touch cinnamon roasted any other nut.

I hate being surprised by nuts.  Taking a big bite of a cookie or banana bread and getting a huge, crunchy chunk of walnut?  I hate that!  I have been known to spit (politely of course) out nuts.  I have eaten the brittle and spit out the peanuts.  I will spit out the nuts in ice cream and I do not get nuts on a sundae.  I have also been known to uh, suck the chocolate off of peanut M&M's and give someone else the peanuts!  Okay.  In my defense I was like 6 or 7 and I didn't know at the time how gross that was.  But - this is how I know the depth of  the love my sister has for me!  Again, I'm so sorry for doing that to you!

It's a texture thing.  It's a crunch thing.  It's a teeth thing.  I don't like the unexpected crunch.  I don't like the chewed up nut paste.  I must have strangely shaped teeth as the nuts ALWAYS get stuck in my teeth and I HATE picking them out.

Once in a great while, I'll have a Snickers bar, maybe a Baby Ruth and I do eat peanut butter.  Just please, no nuts.