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21 June 2006

wet nuts →[More:] am I the only one who has never heard of this as an ice cream topping? Walnuts or pecans in corn syrup and sugar. This is a new one on me. Versus, the, um, peanut chips you might get on ice cream. We are having ice cream at work and people are screaming for wet nuts. Is this a Southern thing?

post by: rainbaby at: 13:51 | 13 comments

Is this a Southern thing?

Nope, got 'em here in Jersey, too.

posted by amro 21 June | 13:53

I think it may be a southern thing, as I never had it until I moved south. They are goooooood though, and that's all that matters.

posted by SassHat 21 June | 13:54

In Michigan you ask for "two handfuls of white freeze spattered with torn scrote" if you want wet nuts on your vanilla ice cream. It's a grisly state I tell you.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 21 June | 13:58

Got 'em in Pennsy.

posted by jrossi4r 21 June | 13:59

I've seen em in tri-state as well.

posted by jonmc 21 June | 14:00

I am from the Northeastern corner of Pennsylvania and that topping is fairly common. The peanut chips is/are called "crunch coat", but yes, wet walnut topping is fairly common where I was raised, about 4 hours north of the Mason-Dixon line, so it could be Southern in origin.

posted by getoffmylawn 21 June | 14:01

Whatever the origin, I tell you, three big Southern ladies rushing up to you as you are sitting quitely at your desk not participating in ice cream and asking you breathlessly, "Wher'e the Wet Nuts!" (the what?) "WET NUTS! For the ice cream. You can't have you a sundae without your wet nuts!" (what?) "Oh, here they are , on T's desk! Whew!" and lumbering away again - well, that'll wake you right on up.

posted by rainbaby 21 June | 14:06

wet nuts! hahah

posted by puke & cry 21 June | 14:15

Never heard of em... in upstate New York, or California, or Texas, or Michigan.

posted by Doohickie 21 June | 14:22

I wish I had dreams like that, rainbaby.

posted by danostuporstar 21 June | 14:28

I'm from Texas, and I've never heard the term. It sounds revolting.

posted by Atom Eyes 21 June | 14:51

Never heard the term here in lower-middle Canadia.

posted by Capn 21 June | 15:40

I've never heard of them either (California, Texas, Washington and BC, Canada).

posted by deborah 22 June | 00:29

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