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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Brazil Nuts (how to get the suckers out of the shell)
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 00:01:33 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 25 00:01:33 1986
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Thanks for the replies about nutcrtackers and speciality nut stores.
You can stop now -- I got this wonderful reply from Peter Reiher
at UCLA.

	From lll-crg!LOCUS.UCLA.EDU!reiher Mon Feb 24 12:10:21 1986
	Freeze 'em, then defrost them, then crack them.  Works like a charm.
	They're still a bitch to crack, but at least they come out whole.
	-- 
                                Peter Reiher
                                reiher@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
                                {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher

It *does* work like a charm!  Really and truly it does. This is better
than Christmas -- you can get *anything* from usenet. wow.  And I am
using a standard 10WR (the WR means that I have a wire cutter edge)
lockwrench (vise grip) made by Dewitt-Petersen-Neer Mfg Co.  It works
on all nuts and is the best nut cracker I know.

I'm hacking on a sun workstation, reading news in one window and eating
brazil nuts while drinking Anchor Porter (dark beer).  The sun set on 
San Francisco Bay a few hours ago, and I watched it.  Did I die and
go to heaven without noticing...



-- 
Laura Creighton		
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