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I remember these brown and craggy nuts referred to as nigger toes when I grew up. My mother would buy an assortment of nuts: chestnuts, almonds, walnuts and nigger toes. It didn't offend me but it rather disgusted me that anyone would want to eat something that resembled a hideous part of a negro's anatomy. I never liked nigger toes that were in the nut bowl. I always ate the other walnuts, almonds and chestnuts and used the nigger toes to throw around outdoors.
Nutty Racism
The other day at work, during the normal conversational pauses, I learned something that I found truly shocking. It seems that most of the country refers to Brazil nuts as "Nigger Toes". I was shocked as person after person casually said, "yeah, that's what they're called." My boss was at a loss ...
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