Monkey nuts

[santaman2000]

If they're "tiger nuts" looks like I was right about them being "chufas." They're apparently the same thing: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus_esculentus

 

[Mafro]

Only ever used tiger nuts as fishing bait, and wonderful they were too

 

[Tadpole]

Tiger Nuts?
To late

 

[Toddy]

I'll say it again we are never too old to learn; I'd never heard of either tiger nuts or chufas.
Interesting. Were they sold like peanuts ?

cheers,
Toddy

 

[asemery]

In the USA we have beer nuts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Nuts

 

[ZEbbEDY]

oh man i used to love those sweet peanuts

 

[santaman2000]

I'll say it again we are never too old to learn; I'd never heard of either tiger nuts or chufas.
Interesting. Were they sold like peanuts ?

cheers,
Toddy

To be honest mary I don't remember ever seeing them when I was in the UK. Obviously they were there though. And my only memories of them here are from my childhood when my step-granfather used to grow them.

 

[AndyP]

They are called red skin peanuts and can be bought from Asda for £1 for a 250g bag. Very sweet and high in protein and essential fats..

 

[Fat Rog]

+1 for tiger nuts as fishing bait, sadly banned from a lot of the commercial fisheries around here for some reason. Can still use them on the rivers though Never heard to them being referred to as monkey nuts, the ones in Bare Thrills' pic are what we called monkey nuts when we were kids.

 

[Opal]

Loved monkey nuts when I was a kid, nothings changed there apart from my appearance what I remember of them.....and that's in the fifties, they remind me of Tiger nuts, on a smaller scale? and don't forget those Nibits.