Brazil nuts

No wonder you're cross Chris

They seem to have been in short supply for two or three years now.

Perhaps it's all those confectionery firms buying them up and covering them with chocolate.

I'll just have to make do with the chocolate covered ones

You can buy them ready shelled. Holland and Barrett are good value.

Luckily (smug emoji) I stockpiled them last year, just tried them today and the shells slightly easier to crack, and the nuts inside sweet and yummy.Love Brazil nuts, and they are good for you too (selenium?) The choccy ones are welcome too.

Luckily (smug emoji) I stockpiled them last year

Now you know why ChrisCross, rosesarered has a warehouse full of stockpiled brazil nuts.
We just need to find out where

I'll just buy the chocolate coated ones then.

which reminds me of the joke about the young vicar visiting the old lady who offered him peanuts .....

And, Jalima? Not heard that one.

I'll go for the chocolate covered ones too!

Tee-hee jalima am never revealing the secret location....they are mine, all mine I tell you! Mwhahahahahh.

Yes, what's the punchline to this joke about peanuts?

I saw a food programme recently here they showed how brazil nuts grow (several clustered centrally in a pod) and that the trees cannot and are not farmed and only grow naturally and are harvested by hand so the shortage is understandable. Sainsbury had them last week in their shells.

Here is the joke, only in the British version, it's the young curate who visits the old lady
www.frostyonline.com/humor/displaypages/JokeSingle.asp?ID=358&Title=Old+Lady+Eating+Peanuts

Sorry I asked now.

I may never look at a big bowl of peanuts in the same way.

Sorry, it was one of DH's jokes ...

I found some in Sainsburys really early in the autumn - bought one pack - wish I had bought more but didn't realise then that they would be in such short supply. Never mind - I'm sure we can make do with the shelled or chocolate covered ones! Just be grateful we have food on our table this winter - having just watched yet another horror news item on Aleppo - lack of Brazil nuts seems very insignificant...

ChrisCross so true.

I bought some from Sainsbury's last month, but I can't get into them, the shells are rock hard! I'm going to try soaking them...