{"id":33517,"date":"2025-02-13T10:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33517"},"modified":"2025-02-13T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:43:17","slug":"spoiler-alert-theyre-not-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/spoiler-alert-theyre-not-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Alert: They&#8217;re Not Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/caramelcashews.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\">I&#8217;m not talking about the people on the Internet, who <em>are<\/em> generally nuts (me included), but rather roasted nuts with sugar or caramel on them.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re pretty common at festivals and whatnot, generally with a free sample which I tend to avoid.  But my beautiful wife received this pack of them in a gift basket she received for a speaking engagement.  She tried one and passed them off to me, and I put them in my office.  I&#8217;ve often had a bag of almonds or a jar of cashews or in headier days, a jar of <em>mixed nuts<\/em> (oh, the decadent luxury!) for little afternoon snacks, but since the great long walk off of a short pier, employment-wise, last year, it&#8217;s been one of the budget trimmings.<\/p>\n<p>So I had this in my office, albeit briefly as it was only four ounces, and&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I realize these things are supposed to be &#8220;healthy&#8221; snacks, but with a dusting of sugar, c&#8217;mon, man, this is candy.  Just a little chocolate and binder short of being a candy bar.<\/p>\n<p>Not to slag on the producers of this particular product, but definitely not for me.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Slow-roasted by hand<\/em>?  Jeez, Louise, <em>do not get your recipes from ChatGPT!<\/em>  Use a pan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not talking about the people on the Internet, who are generally nuts (me included), but rather roasted nuts with sugar or caramel on them. They&#8217;re pretty common at festivals and whatnot, generally with a free sample which I tend to avoid. But my beautiful wife received this pack of them in a gift basket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33520,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33517\/revisions\/33520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}