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 when asked if he knew another name for a Brazil nut. He didn't know what a Brazil nut was and finally asked, "Do you mean Nigger Toes?"
Everyone seemed to know this, other than myself. From Colorado, to Texas, to Minnesota, to Illinois to California the answers were the same and casually stated. In fairness, I don't think many of my co-workers actually use this term. Most attributed it to what was said in their home growing up.
Finally our sales V.P. who hails from Pennsylvania had the same reaction as I did. We agreed that if we ever even said that in our own home our mothers would have slapped us so fast we wouldn't have had time to duck.
How many of you are familiar with this term and how many heard it used in your home growing up?
I didn't hear that term used in reference to brazil nuts until just a few years ago.
Not a big nut-eating family, the one I came from.
Posted by: meg | April 28, 2004 at 07:49 PM
Never heard it.
Posted by: A Curious Stranger | April 28, 2004 at 09:42 PM
never heard of it till just now.
Posted by: wob | April 29, 2004 at 11:39 AM
Yes w0b, although my mother refused to use the term, it is what her mother and presumeably others in Red Wing Minnesota called them. My mother told me about it when I was around 13 (30 years ago)
-Spille
Posted by: Mike Spille | April 29, 2004 at 04:45 PM
I've never heard that one.
Posted by: jake | April 29, 2004 at 05:23 PM
holy shit it's spille!
I am afraid now that he has found our blogs...
:)
Posted by: w0b | April 29, 2004 at 05:45 PM
Sad to say, but my dad and other family memebers used it all of the time. Yes, I grew up in Minnesota. Perhaps Minnesotans are ingnorant bigets? I don't know, I just know that I live here in Colorado now.
Posted by: dinaripper | April 29, 2004 at 06:50 PM
I sent an email to my mom who grew up all over the country, but home base was near Green Bay, WI in the 40s wondering about her and my Uncle from MN's experience with this term. Here's her response:
"Completely familiar with the phrase, and never knew those particular nuts had a more respectable name until I was in high school/college. I think it merely reflects the unconscious verbal racism common in the good old USA a couple generations ago. And, yes, I'm sure [your Uncle] and his family are familiar with the phrase although I'm sure they don't use it in the type of polite conversation used in blogs today. On the other hand we wouldn't have been alive long if our mothers had ever heard us use F____, Holy Shit, Fart, Suck, etc. in conversation or in writing. Mom"
Posted by: Nate | May 03, 2004 at 05:33 AM
I checked with my folks and neither of them have ever heard it. They are from Queens and Providence. Data is indicating that it is a widely spread regionalism.
Fun fact: In 1967 it was still against the law to marry interracially in 16 states.
Posted by: Non Prophet | May 03, 2004 at 03:06 PM
I never knew those had a real name until just now. I have always called them nigger toes. I guess the ignorant one is now educated.
Posted by: merdock | May 27, 2004 at 07:05 PM
My Grandparents and uncles all called them nigger toes in the 1960's and 70's. I never knew there was another name for them until many years later. We enjoyed nigger toes and other nuts mostly around Christmas time. Ontario, Canada.
Posted by: Alf | June 22, 2004 at 06:05 AM
YESS!!!! I love nigger toes. Here in the south that is the PC name for brazil nuts.
Posted by: | June 22, 2004 at 10:22 AM
I just heard this word today and found this site via google. My dad asked for some nigger toes and I was like what the fuck? He meant brazil nuts. I couldnt really stop laughing.
My cousin called my dad racist and I said, Filipinos cant be racist, just to fill another stereotype that isnt correct.
My cousin said, Filipinos are racists against blacks a lot.
And then my grandmother said, yes, because blacks are mostly bad.
All of this in San Francisco by a Filipino family.
Posted by: aempirei | June 22, 2004 at 07:25 PM
My parents used the "nigger toes' term as well. That was in Central Texas. I'm glad that we can now call them brazil nuts and most will know what we mean.
However, A couple of other terms still give me trouble. "Nigger shooter" has never had a satisfactory replacement term. That's a y shaped stick with rubber bands for firing a projectile. Not it is definitely not a Slingshot.
The other politically incorrect phrase is the poem, "....Catch a nigger by the toe, if he hollers let him go..." I forget the rest.
Posted by: Jimbo | June 26, 2004 at 11:37 AM
Yes, I heard... You will find the word Nigger toes in Webster's Old thick Dictionary along with other Nigger words... I also heard the PC word African Americans.When you hear this word you assume you are referring to a Black person from American. Wrong! What do you call a White person born in Africa and then move to American and gain citizenship?
Shaka
Posted by: Shaka | June 28, 2004 at 05:25 PM
ilo ve the whole of this siteoooooooooo
Posted by: mugu | July 01, 2004 at 02:53 AM
I was kickin' it to dem nigga beats with my nigga hoe that was nigga lipin' my nigga nuts. I said nigga please; I paid a nigga price with my nigga roll for this Nigga Cig which I nigga rigged. Stop suckin' my nigga dick and come up by this nigga supreme and smoke some of this nigga cheese with this nigga in waiting. After which we had a few nigga toes. You can thank the Black Rap Artists for perpetuating and congregating and instigating the word 'NIGGER'. You can find almost every variation and term associated with the word Nigger at www.urbandictionary.com.
Posted by: Fresh Dizzy-izzle | July 09, 2004 at 09:00 AM
My aunt called these fat, brown nuts niggertoes, and it was from her I received the term during my youth in the 1970s. It falls into the category of racially-based euphamisms that includes "paddywagon" (a police prisoner transport van) and "wop slop" (a term referring to spaghetti and tomato sauce, as explained to me by an Italian chef who wanted it known that his cuisine consists of more than noodles and pizza).
Niggertoes are different from these phrases in two ways. First, the term is quite descriptive. These nuts do look like the amputated toes of a youthful nigger.
Secondly, the term is not pejorative; that is to say, it means no undue harm toward niggers. Unlike "paddywagon," which suggests that prisoner transport carries a primarily Irish contingent, and that, today, isn't an accurate description. ("Niggerbus" is actually a pretty good name for a modern police van, and that would be worth adopting, IMO.)
I will add that, unlike most races, the nigger has two problems. One is its unsightly fecal-colored skin and its extremely nappy hair, a shredded mess that is so ugly that the nigger itself often tries to straighten and lighten it so as to look less like the great apes and more like Whites.
The other problem is, of course, cognative: the nigger doesn't understand what it fails to know. You can't train it, and unless it's controlled it will shit where it eats and parasitically destroy everything it comes across.
Thus, to the nigger, the world is one big handout. When that which is not theirs is justly denied them, they resort to violent, animalistic behaviours to obtain it.
It's a shame that it's so, but it is so: no-one who has a choice desires to live in a nation, or even a city that is predominantly nigger and controlled by a nigger government. Do you want to live in Haiti? The Congo? Rwanda? Downtown Detroit?
In any case, niggertoe nuts are descriptively accurate and good humoured toward the nigger race. I'm glad that you've discovered it, and I hope you enjoy these tasty snacks.
Posted by: | July 13, 2004 at 09:55 AM
I was taught "nigger toes" when I was 4 years old. I was also taught: eenie meenie mynie moe catch a nigger by the toe, if he hollers let him go, eenie meenie mynie moe. But more often we always substituted the word tiger instead. As of this day, I'd never teach younger children these terms.
Posted by: wade | July 14, 2004 at 04:10 PM
Cashews are still better.
Posted by: Bea Arthur | July 25, 2004 at 03:07 AM
i'm from pennsylvania, too, and i'd never heard it until last week. i brought a can of mixed nuts into work and had 3 co-workers refer to them as nigger toes in one day. we're all from pennsylvania, so apparently it's still pretty prevalent here, too. even if i'd grown up calling them that, i'd be embarrassed to admit it in mixed company.
Posted by: idlechic | July 25, 2004 at 12:54 PM
My grandmother, who lived from 1918 - 1970, called them nigger toes. I never knew they had a different name until near the time she passed away, when I was told they were called Brazil Nuts.
More recently, in fact, just in the last two weeks, I was told that the reason for its widespread name was because they were canned under that label name. I am wondering if that is true, which would account for why so many people refer to them that way (very offensive).
Posted by: peaceful | August 15, 2004 at 10:36 AM
Both my parents\grandparents and my husbands family use the term. Our families are from CA, PA, NC & SC. I found this page because I was searching for what kind of nut a "nigger toe" is.My 3 yr old asked me recently what I was eating (mixed nuts). I didn't know what to say, surely it has a proper name! I certainly didn't want to pass along the term "nigger toes." Now I know to say that's a Brazil Nut!
Posted by: Jessie | August 19, 2004 at 10:22 AM
The Brazil Nut Tree:
Native to the Amazon, this tree resists cultivation elsewhere--and even in Brazil wild trees fare far better than the few commercial plantations of domesticated ones. Brazil nut pods are gathered only after they fall to the ground. Why? Because each weighs about 5 pounds a piece! Harvesters run around gathering them while bearing shields over their heads.
Posted by: Cozmo | August 28, 2004 at 10:33 PM
that's the only name I heard them called in my home and my grandparents home (Ohio and Michigan). We always had a large bowl of mixed nuts on the table especially for the holidays. Today I was eating mixed nuts with my wife (Harrisburg, PA) and asked her if she new what they were called??? and that's the only name she knew them by.
Posted by: Rich K | August 29, 2004 at 02:22 AM
I know dey's real nigger toes cuz we calls dem dat.
Posted by: negro | October 04, 2004 at 06:40 AM
I grew up in New Mexico in the 60s, and that is what my dad called 'em.
Posted by: gloria | October 16, 2004 at 01:46 PM
Yes, my whole family uses the term nigger toes. Especially my grandfather, great anuts, and uncles from southern Maryland. I enjoy putting nigger toes in my white bottom.
Posted by: ralph | October 21, 2004 at 07:59 PM
I heard the term for brazil nuts one time during christmas from my Mom. - i like nigger toes in my white bottom too ;P
Posted by: le | October 25, 2004 at 05:08 PM
What's a brazil nut?
Posted by: Howie Feltersnatch | November 05, 2004 at 05:26 PM
Saddly enough, I too grew up in a family where this term was used. My family came from Mississippi where this sort of derogatory term was deemed acceptable. Fortunately, I became wiser and more sensitive as I got older and make a point to exclude this and other offensive terms from my vocabulary. My children only know them as Brazil Nuts and for this. I am proud.
Posted by: Roger | November 08, 2004 at 09:58 AM
Came from Ohio. That is what my parents and aunts and uncles called them.
Posted by: Becky | November 12, 2004 at 02:13 PM
I grew up in Southern Illinois in the 40s and that was the term used in my family for these nuts. Just today I was wondering what the real name was and checked with Google to find out. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who didn't know.
Posted by: Nan | November 15, 2004 at 05:00 PM
I never knew either name. I just always asked for those big old long smooth nuts that were my favorite. Then when I was 17 I read the can of mixed nuts one day to see what they were called and through process of elimination decided they were brazils. I asked my parents if they knew they were called that, and they said my Grandma used to call them nigger toes. So in one sitting I learned both. I'm eating some now and thought I'd google it to see how widespread the term was. Well now I know! I also discovered that in science there is the "Brazil Nut Effect"
Posted by: Jac | November 15, 2004 at 08:04 PM
actually im from louisiana and my family has always referred to slingshots as "nigger shooters"
Posted by: Maddhatter | November 15, 2004 at 11:10 PM
I never knew there was any name other than nigger toe, and only just realized what I was saying, never saw the racism, just was a word like any other
Posted by: skip | November 16, 2004 at 01:55 PM
Niger = Black
Toh = Nut
(in portugese the native tongue of Brazil)
The nuts are in fact quite black, and seeing as how they come from Brazil the natives referred to them accordingly. It was probably picked up because someone found it funny.
Posted by: Weathered Pebble | November 21, 2004 at 09:41 PM
5 minutes of googling proved that wrong.
Nut in portuguese is porca. This particular nut, in Brazil, is known as a castanea or castanha.
Posted by: Curious Stranger | November 22, 2004 at 06:14 PM
Due to the political un-correctness of the term "nigger toes," I now simply refer to them as "cotten-picking porch monkey toes." That seems much kinder to me.
Posted by: Uncle Tom | November 24, 2004 at 05:59 PM
Just came up today at pre-Thanksgiving snacks when my 84-year-old mother from Nebraska stated that her favorite nut was the "nigger toe." We used that term all the time.
Posted by: Steve Kaessner | November 25, 2004 at 04:46 PM
Please show some respect towards the poor, little Brazil nuts and don't compare them to a nigger. If I were a Brazil nut, I'd get offended to be compared to a nigger's toes.
Posted by: Ronnie | November 26, 2004 at 01:48 AM
yea man i remember when i was about 6 or 7 i was in the grocery store with my mom and i said "hey mom lets get some nigger toes" at which time a black woman gave my mom the evil eye so i said "but mom i learned it from you." needless to say my momma and i had a long talk when we got back home =X
Posted by: rick | November 28, 2004 at 07:53 PM
Nigger toes come from the Christmas nigger, a sooty devil who comes down the chimney once a year.
Posted by: JimGawthrop | November 29, 2004 at 01:44 PM
We've always called them that, up in Alberta, Canada, and I never paid much attention to it until now.
Posted by: Mar | November 30, 2004 at 06:45 PM
We've always called them that, up in Alberta, Canada, and I never paid much attention to it until now.
Posted by: Mar | November 30, 2004 at 06:45 PM
They're called nigger toes because no one would fucking know what you meant by calling them honky toes.
Posted by: Eggbert | December 01, 2004 at 02:01 PM
always used the term nigger toes...dont regret it, dont mean anything by it. just the way it is. i dont consider it racist or bigoted and get tired of all the politival correctness. why does offending 12% of the us population take up so much of our thoughts and time.its funny how the other 88% dont seem to let all this shit bother them.
Posted by: david | December 07, 2004 at 05:50 PM
I was suprised that 50% of my friends had no idea what a nigger toe was!
Posted by: Kevin | January 11, 2005 at 11:10 PM
I am from Pennsylvania (lower Eastern). I am white, though I am currently married to a white woman from up state Pennsylvania. Before being married I have date spanish, koren, chinese and black. I have friends of all races and backgrounds. EVERY ONE of them, (including my wife's family) and all of our various deversified friends ALL call them nigger toes.
I use the correct term when around people that do not know that I am not racist by any means.
In all honesty - I do not know anyone that calls them brazil nuts - other then the stores.
Posted by: Henry Smith | January 14, 2005 at 01:43 PM
How sad that so many think this is a derogatory term. These people are so brain washed, and yet believe they are truly PC. They are merely short changed of reasonable use of language. This has been the name for this food item for several centuries. Either term should be fine, and neither to carry any stigmatism. Now, on the other hand, there exist decent blacks and then there really are just plain niggers. Call a spade a spade, both good and bad.
Posted by: The Jeepster | January 22, 2005 at 06:31 PM
I am 39 years old. I live in Atlanta. Thats all I have ever heard them called. I was in my 20's before I knew what they had a different name. My parents, grand parents, great grand parents, aunts, uncles and all other family members called them that. I had heard of Brazil Nuts from a friend but I thought they were some other kind of nut.
Posted by: Pamela | January 29, 2005 at 06:14 PM
I wonder if the more modern term would be nigga toes?
What really has me wondering, however, is this... is it okay for other brazil nuts to call one another, nigger toes, but, not okay for the rest ot the nuts (peanuts, cashews, walnuts, filberts...etc) to call the brazil nuts, nigger toes???
Posted by: Yoda Bean | February 07, 2005 at 02:30 PM
I am glad I that I am not the only one that heard older generations in my family use the term for the nut. Luckily, my mom never allowed me to use it, and gave me the correct information. P.S. I love nuts.
Posted by: | February 10, 2005 at 09:13 PM
I must say growing up in Louisiana and Texas we always called em nigger toes...and that had nothing to do with black folks. It more meant a big black smooth nut. Now, we did pick who was "it" according to to "eenie meenie minie moe, catch a nigger by his toe, if he hollers, make him pay, fifty dollars every day". Don't member that havin much to with the coloreds either.
Posted by: LouTex | February 11, 2005 at 11:21 PM
WHAT IS IT CALLED !!!!!!
Posted by: salit | February 20, 2005 at 07:20 PM
My Grandma called them by their less impressive name, but we were always calling them brazil nuts as well.
Eric
Posted by: Eric | February 23, 2005 at 06:25 PM
I grew up in SE Texas and "nigger-toes" was what a Brazil nut was called. Also, the term "nigger-knocking" meant ringing a doorbell or knocking on the house and running behind cars or bushes and see the homeowner come out. All innocent fun and laughter then?? I wonder where the origin of "these" words come from??
Posted by: IDIOMS | March 23, 2005 at 10:31 AM
I am nineteen years old and my grandmother used to refer to Brazilian nuts with that phrase.
Posted by: Abby | March 25, 2005 at 04:29 AM
I was a little nard in the late '60s and my Mom & Dad both referred to them as nigger toes (and they were otherwise bleeding-heart Liberals!).
My sister & I used to sing "Nigger toes, nigger toes, nig-nig-nigger toes" as we ate them...laughing hysterically all the while.
Posted by: Alex | March 30, 2005 at 07:45 AM
Nigga' Toh's are good to eat, but not to smell!!!
Posted by: Dawg | March 30, 2005 at 07:48 PM
never heard another team besides nigger toe until today, when referred to as "nigger toes" i've never witnessed any type of association with the race, and my whole extended family uses the term exclusively...bit of a side note, why is black against white racism so accepted even in media and everything? there is a "miss black america" pageant although blacks can be normal miss america too, is this because blacks are too ugly to win against whites so they get their own contest or because black women would get too mouthy and bitch the hell outta anyone that ran a miss white america and feel more need for reparations money for suffering that not even their great grandparents felt if they didnt get special treatment?
Posted by: whip cracka | March 30, 2005 at 11:37 PM
I'm a little teapot, short and stout, here is my handle...here is my nigger blastin gloch, so darkies better start to pout!
Posted by: anonamous adam | March 31, 2005 at 09:03 PM
I was looking up "nigger toes" on the Internet because I did not know the real name of my favorite nut (Brazil nut). That is when I came across this website. I am 23 years old and TODAY (4/7/2005) I am proud to say I now know that they are called Brazil nuts. I always knew that the formal name for these nuts were not "nigger toes" but everyone around me growing up called them the same thing that I never questioned it. Well, Brazil nuts are my favorite! :)
Posted by: Lindsey | April 07, 2005 at 02:27 PM
I was looking up "nigger toes" on the Internet because I did not know the real name of my favorite nut (Brazil nut). That is when I came across this website. I am 23 years old and TODAY (4/7/2005) I am proud to say I now know that they are called Brazil nuts. I always knew that the formal name for these nuts were not "nigger toes" but everyone around me growing up called them the same thing that I never questioned it. Well, Brazil nuts are my favorite! :)
Posted by: Lindsey | April 07, 2005 at 02:27 PM
models for "america's last supper"
I draw with charred Brazil nuts (Nigger Toes) or Brazil nuts (Nigger Toes) dipped in sumi ink from nude gay models. once the nuts are charred with a propane torch they are symbolically purified and no longer have their horrible racial epithet. Using charred brazil nuts as the marking tool on paper then becomes a transformational act, something akin to the of doctrine transubstantiation. If you are interest in posing for this project please let me know. My work is under consideration for "Potential Museum Purchase" at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor M.H. de Young Memorial Museum (www.thinker.org)
Posted by: revtimtaylor.com | April 09, 2005 at 06:59 PM
My mother and her parents call it "niggertoe" as well.
The only reason I looked this website up is because I wanted to know the real name of this nut. No one in my office new the real name. They all kept calling it by the nick name.
Sad but true.
Posted by: Sallie | April 14, 2005 at 10:09 AM
I cant believe over half of you guys have never heard of nigger toes!?! Up here in michigan thats what we call them.
Posted by: STRANGER | April 20, 2005 at 05:38 PM
I was told to eat one Brazil nut daily to give me 120 mcg of selenium. I couldn't think what a Brazil nut was and desperately wanted to ask, "Is that the nigger toe?" But, of course, one can't say that today. It's all it was called in my house growing up.
Posted by: Dee | April 28, 2005 at 12:12 AM
I am doing research on Brazil Nuts for a journal produced by the Multi-Ethnic Society of the Americas. I am an educated, black woman who thought I would not be offended by the ignorance and small-mindedness of bigots who "see no harm" in using ethnic slurs. I was wrong. Some of the posts on here challenge my perception of people as basically good.
My research continues -- I sincerely hope some of you examine your need to subjugate and denigrate other people. What does that need really say about your own sense of self?
Posted by: niablanchard | May 14, 2005 at 11:21 AM
I'm surprised so many of you didn't know the proper name for a Brazil Nut. That's the word I always knew until my father, a man who once lived primarily in the south, told me he called them 'Nigger Toes' as a kid. I was, and still am, amazed that people call them that.
Posted by: DragonKore | June 26, 2005 at 03:33 AM
i am from California, near san francisco, and only ever heard the term Brazil nuts in reference to these, so I don't think it's as wide-spread as you presume.
Posted by: smitty | July 19, 2005 at 09:43 AM
Grew up in rural Pennsylvania. Both my parents used the term (mom was from Maine, dad from PA) I never liked Brazil nuts, so never used the term. We never used any oher racial slurs that I can remember.
Posted by: Witey | August 09, 2005 at 11:14 PM
Never heard of "Nigger Toes" until now. I just heard the phrase "Catch a Tigger by the toe" on TV and wondering when that poem had become PC. I only ever remember the version with "Nigger" in it. Down here in Australia though we've never really used the term "Nigger" in any sort of derogatory way (we have other words), so I guess it doesn't have the same impact as up there in the USA. We just thought it was what people overseas called Black People. Growing up with the British show "Love Thy Neighbour", where every 2nd word was either "Nig-Nog" or "Nigger" probably didn't help our ignorance much either.
Posted by: Rob | November 21, 2005 at 05:59 AM
I grew up with the term Nigger toe. I didnt know they had a different name untill a few years back. And you know what I never thought about a black person while saying it or eating one it was a name. A damn name like when i hear the name Lamont I dont think about freds son ITS A DAMN NAME. Its not racist unless you mean it to be at the momment you are saying it.
I bought a lamp at a MART type store and it said color>>> NEGRO the casheir lady said "Well thats just wrong" I said negro in spanish ment black I got "NO IT MEANS NIGGER" from her That was ignorance at its best.
I hear "WHITE BOY" "CRACKER" "WHITE BREAD" All day at work and that is excepted speak. But I call a damn nut nigger toe refering to no person in particular and Im a damn racist. Blow it out your ass And this HIppie that marched for equal rights will still call em Nigger toes because I know I mean nothing behind it.
Shut up I know what you are thinking. My family marched for desegrigation of schools so why the hell dont your kids use em.,..
Posted by: Man from KENT | December 08, 2005 at 02:44 AM
Sorry MfK, you just don't get it. Here's a recent quote from the king of the blogosphere:
Here is an excellent guide you and people just like you need to read.
You're welcome.
Posted by: pete | December 08, 2005 at 11:04 AM
No I get it to well. Everyone is brain washed in this country to hate whites. Even sader is the self hateing white. I encourage all to take pride in them selves .I will not apologize for saying NIgger toe about a damn Nut.
Quote from pete Here is an excellent guide you and people just like you need to read. End quote
What do you mean ME AND PEOPLE LIKE ME>>>>>>I take that as a racist attack apologize!!!!!
Posted by: Man from Kent | December 10, 2005 at 02:26 AM
down with whitey just gimme my check for what they owe me and then we be straight
Posted by: monkey nuts | December 24, 2005 at 12:08 PM
Wow Monkey Nuts I would kindly write a check to all the slaves but they seem to all be dead and I dont beleive in men profiting from the work of people who have been dead for more than 3 generations. Get a job and stop living the steriotype.
PS Reperations are paid promptly on the first of each and every month..
Posted by: Man From Kent | December 27, 2005 at 12:11 AM
MfK, what did I mean by PEOPLE LIKE YOU? Look back at Dec 8 and see how defensive you were. No one is calling you a racist. Relax. Read that link. For someone who jokes so much about reparations you sure are addicted to your own little persecution complex.
Can you please explain how using a word with a racist history instills pride in and somehow keeps you from hating yourself?
Also, if you can, please give me all the details on how, "Everyone is brain washed in this country to hate whites." That sounds absolutely fascinating, thanks!
Posted by: pete | December 29, 2005 at 12:28 PM
I found this site after a google search trying to find the real name for Brazil nuts. My dad always called them niggertoes, and I've always known that wasn't the real name, just never cared enough to find out what it was.
Posted by: V | January 02, 2006 at 08:02 PM
I had never heard this term, until I saw a comic strip referring to another name for brazil nuts (which I've always called them), but the comic didn't actually mention the other name they were called. So I had to do a little research. Interesting.
Posted by: Roberto | February 01, 2006 at 10:43 AM
Yup. Grandad was from southern Indiana. Heard it from him; learned the correct name later that same year. He kept calling them that, anyway. I wouldn't have done so if they had HAD no other name :-)
Posted by: gabe | February 22, 2006 at 02:13 AM
nigger toes
Posted by: McDumpsters | April 02, 2006 at 05:29 PM
Hey Dee;
Every black I have ever encountered uses the term nigger, very freely. It seems like it's them who are perpetuating this "so called" "racist" term the most.
It's a classic example of the "do as I say, not as I do" mentality.
Posted by: Niggertoe Joe | April 08, 2006 at 12:40 PM
Niggertoes are tasty but niggers suck! They(niggers) wear pants falling off of their asses, constantly grab at their crotches, smoke crack, shoot each other and innocent bystanders, listen to loud bongo-party hip hop gangsta music whose message is killing, shooting, and crack smoking! They cry racist yet are the biggest bigots and racists alive... always looking to sponge off of the welfare system. They cry whitey and cracker! Everybody owes them because of slavery, yet they refuse to see the positive side of slavery - slavery brought their ancestors(and ultimately them) to the greatest country in the world, and without it, they would still be living in the jungles. Unfortunately, many will never get out of the ghetto because they are constantly blaming whitey and slavery for their problems.... instead of pointing the finger at the TRUE cause of their problems... THE PERSON IN THE MIRROR!
Understand 'nigger' is a term used to describe black trash. There are plenty of black people who ARE NOT niggers!
We really need to ship the hopeless black trash back where they came from as they are not yet ready to live in civilization.
Posted by: Cracker, my ass! | April 09, 2006 at 10:05 AM
So what? That's what they are. You think idiots from Brazil git all pissed off when you call them things Brazil nuts?? I doubt it. So, what's the problem??
Posted by: Bubba | April 13, 2006 at 12:04 PM
This out of date ebay auction shows that the appelation was quite the norm at one time:
http://tinyurl.com/es5o3
Posted by: Robert | April 30, 2006 at 12:14 PM
nigger toes nigger toes
how I love nigger toes
the jungle we go
to shake their tree so
they're falling in bushels
they're falling in droves
we scoop them up to
we scoop them up fro
we bake them in ovens
we serve them with crackers
we serve them to slackers
and even to hackers
nigger toes nigger toes'
taste is so sweet
why did they name them
from parts of the feet?
by E.M.P.
Posted by: Yoda | April 30, 2006 at 01:19 PM
From NC. Grew up and always have known both names; and in case you're wondering, I'm black.
Posted by: Sam | May 07, 2006 at 06:24 PM
Oh I love it! My grandparents and parents used the phrase all the time... I'm posting here because I just bought a can of mixed nuts and oila! Nigger toes!
Posted by: Jeff | May 26, 2006 at 01:26 PM
Many people may often use the term "niggatoe," or other slanderous phrases and don't mean anything by it. Even so, such epithets are not harmless and can have caustic effects. I am black and when I hear someone use the word nigger so casually I feel completely demeaned because I know the brutal history of the term. I don't consider myself to be hyper sensitive, but when I hear such a term I am automatically made an outcast and othered. It is a horrible feeling to say the least. When using such loaded terms the impact far outweighs the intent.
Posted by: "YOU" people?!? | June 02, 2006 at 01:26 AM
J00 N0 FUX WIF ME! EYE'LL BUST J00 IN THA GRILL NIG-NUGGET!
DEM FUXIN NIGRUXES BETTR STOP PLAYIN DAT LOUD MUSIK CUZ THE JEWISH KIDZ WIT DA LIDDLE DIKS 'N SAQS CAN'T AFFORD 2 SPEDN MOR CASHES ON DA CLITSAQ ASSNUGGEX CEEDEEZ
DEEZ NUTZ IN YO MUTHAFUXIN MOTUTH, ITS ME WARREN G DA NIGGA WIT DA CLOUT
Posted by: AOLMAN | June 02, 2006 at 09:13 AM
I find AOLMAN's post to be totally relevant to the topic at hand. Ghetto-speak and spanglish is at least as offensive to me as an occassional epithet with racist overtones. It's use is an admission of a racist attitude because it is a very real attempt (by self-styled 'gangstas') to create a 'new' (and exclusive) language. Oh, and AOLMAN: You need to crack yo punk ass back to the burbs white boy.
Posted by: Nate | June 02, 2006 at 02:52 PM
AOLMAN is cool. I wish I was undereducated and ignorant.
Posted by: Zen | June 02, 2006 at 03:55 PM
btw - that's just an output from AOLsay or similar script that's been floating around in IRC since the mid 90's. It just spits out random 14 year old sounding AOL lamer comments to annoy people. Funny that the script still lives and yet the comments it spits out haven't been updated at all.
Posted by: Nate | June 02, 2006 at 04:16 PM
Nate is so DAM EMUVFUXIN EREEET. GOD DAYUM AYAZZ PONY-NUGGET GIFROOMPASTEWAREZ! ;)
Posted by: pete | June 02, 2006 at 04:46 PM
Ive never run across such a mass gathering of ignorant rednecks in one place. Yes Ive heard that phrase "nigger Toe" before and I dont like it. And for you racists looking for a reason to call Black people Niggers, I also think Black people that use that term are worse than you sheet wearing, insecure, hateful, racists. I happened to be lookng up the term "Brazil Nut" because of a game show on TV (trying to learn something). And what do I find??? Did you guys know that a Brazil nut requires a certain bee to pollinate it. And that bee requires a certain Orchid to be in existance. The Brazl nut tree is in fact endangered. But you guys wouldnt now that cause they dont teach that in the kind of homes that you guys were brought up in. Now mr moderator, we need to close this forum because the only thing that you have accomplished is draw in the gene pool of klansmen... Now if we can lead them over a cliff that would be quite acceptable.
Posted by: Barryheet wearin | July 03, 2006 at 08:50 PM
Racism finds no place in the awakened heart, this is true. But neither does censorship of feelings or thoughts. This group is far from a "mass gathering of ignorant rednecks", Barryheet. Welcome.
Posted by: Zen | July 04, 2006 at 12:19 AM
Ok so this group is a mass gathering of what??? How many college diplomas do you think we are talking here? I know thats not a prerequisite,but you get my point. Mass gathering of ignorant rednecks is a legal right in your opinion. I dont totally believe in free speech. As I beleive bitch slapping anyone who feels that they have the right to offend an entire race of people is appropriate. And certainly, I would do just that weather i go to jail or not. Thats why a forum like this is just what the doctor ordered for those spineless racists that are too afraid to spout thier racist beliefs in public. I mean, if is legal to be a racist, bring it out in the public so you wont appear like a spinelesss bitch. Of course ou would get your asses kicked all the way back to Alabama, but karma is a muthafuka isnt it?!! I wont be back here , dont worry. But I have learned that there is a place for tiny tiny minds to meet on the internet to make themselves feel superior. Im here to let you all now that I still love you all. Especially the white women that dont appear to be as racist as the guys. Why is that?? Thats because we have something that benefits them. Instead of going to forums, bruthas are showing white women that we are serious when we get our hands on them. And we give them something that they will never forget. Hows that for racism..Hahahahaaaa. But this one is TRUE.. Bastards.. LOLOL
Posted by: barry | July 04, 2006 at 12:23 PM
You probably will want to delete the above comment because it is not up to the standards of the other posters in this forum.. Oh yeah, freedom of speeech!!! Damn!
Posted by: barry | July 04, 2006 at 12:25 PM