Thought for the Day: Being a Brief Meditation on the Veracity of the Advertisement and Presentation of Various and Sundry Brands of Mixed Nuts, Specifically as This Pertains to the So-Called "Peanut"

Since a peanut is actually a legume, and since all attempts to have it re-named "pea-legume" have come to naught, doesn't this mean that truth in advertising requires that labels on such products should read

Mixed Nuts & "Peanuts"?

And maybe even a little * after the "Peanuts"

with the legume information.

This reminds me of two "nut" jokes.

The first is from The Simpsons.  Homer has been kidnapped and taken to Brazil.  As they are tooling down the Amazon River, he says to his (Brazilian) kidnapper,

Homer Simpson: Listen, I really need a rest stop.

Kidnapper #2: Again? 

Homer Simpson: I have a bladder the size of a Brazil nut.

Kidnapper: Uh... We just call them nuts here.

Is that funny or what?

The second isn't actually a nut joke, come to think of it.  But it is a Brazilian joke, so you see there's just that one degree of separation. Okay.  It goes like this:

George Bush was receiving his daily report from his Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. 

During the report, Rumsfeld said; “And yesterday, three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq.” George suddenly went pale, put his head in his hands and began to sweat profusely. 

His staff were astounded. They had never seen the president react like this to such a small loss. Then, after he had recovered slightly, the president brought his head up and quietly asked the aide next to him, "Just how many is a brazilian?" 

Good times.