Do You Remember When A Lot Of People Had These?

My mother bought a lot of monkey pod wooden bowls, and used them for nuts and chips and almost everything. She had this one:


And this one:


And this one:

My parents always had a bowl of nuts during Christmas.

My dad passed a few months ago and we've been cleaning out his home. Just last week I found a lone nut crackers on the counter just like in your photo. I'm guessing my kid and nieces who were tasked with boxing up the kitchen utensils didn't know what it was. 😆

Consequently I was just thinking last week, where does one even purchase shelled nuts anymore. I can't recall seeing the big display where you buy them by weight at a grocery store in decades.

We had that exact one! My Dad loved the mixed nuts. My Grandpa would eat the walnuts, and make little carved baskets out of the shells.

Yes!!!! I hated seeing this on the table at my aunt’s house cause you knew it was going to be a while before the pop and chips was coming out. 😂

We still have one, we never use it. It just sits in the drawer never being used.

My Grandmom had one of these out when we visited.

We always had a bowl of mixed nuts at my parents house over Christmas. I've still got the family nutcrackers :-)

Yes, we had those at our house. We still use the nutcrackers and picks on pecans.

I've never seen one. I've seen similar things.

My grandparents and my parents had them

I remember those!

My parents had one

Yes, we had one

lol! Yes!

Yes and it always had the nuts no one liked outnumbering the good ones, so you had to explore....lol

A holiday tradition growing up.
Pinched my skin many times LOL.

My grandparents have one that they get out every Christmas

My parents had one of those .

I remember how my mother loved to eat figs that she stuffed with walnuts after cracking them open.

Yes...My Mom had that exact set.

Yes I do. My mom put one out every year at Christmas.

I remember making these in wood shop and us charging $25 apiece, we couldn't keep up with the demand, everyone wanted one, it was a fundraiser for our 7th grade class to see A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the Broadway cast was touring in 1982.

Those were staples. Not a fan of the Brazil nuts.