As the jingle went, “Almond Joy’s got nuts, Mounds don’t.” I took this for granted for years, blissfully ignorant to the forces that controlled my very foodage. No more! What am I talking about? Coconut. Yeah, what does that have in it? Nut. And it’s in bofum. Both. Of. Them. The other day I realized Mounds do have nuts. Proud of my newfound realization I went to Wikipedia to crush my enthusiasm. Turns out coconut is not part of the nut “family.” I says that if nothing else they’re freaking adopted.
Classroom: Nuts can be fruit or seed, coconut is a fruit with nut in its name.
Someone needs to come clean. Did the Hershey group (or Peter Paul himself!) force nuts to kick out their coconut brethren? Are Mounds merely Castrato Almond Joys? Are those the nuts they speak of? Until I know for sure, I say they both have nuts. But, to be PC (and not mock the Castratos, poor bastards) I’m calling Almond Joy’s little wonders “growths.” Kind of like huge tumors under your chocolatey goodness.
I’m going in for more research, just for you, the kind-hearted reader. So far all I’ve found is this bra
Right now I’ve got Weird Al in my head. Sometimes I feel like a nut, or like a nut is singing to me about feeling like a nut.
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