Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Wonderings and Googlings (Wherein I wonder about words, then I Google them)

Reading about creme fraiche today, I noticed that one website said it has a "nutty, slightly sour taste." Is it just me, or does it seem that every ingestible under the sun is, at times, said to have a "nutty" flavor?

I decided to find out. I did a Google search for the term "nutty flavor." Here are just a few of the foods that were described this way.

coffee
cheddar cheese
buckwheat groats
honey
fundamentalist Christians
tawny port wine
butterscotch pie
Peterson Gran Reserva cigars
red snapper
roux
farro
"strawberry fields" marijuana
brown ale
teff
spelt
parasitic grubs
soy milk
jicama
squash
caviar
green tea
asparagus bean
bread
parsnips
apricot jam
brown butter sauce
nutmeg
garlic
lecithin granules
two varieties of apples
sesame seeds
fungus
hemp seed butter
basmati rice
soy bean flour
Irish whiskey
lentils
whole wheat biscuits
broccoli raab
purple asparagus
El Tesoro anejo tequila
avocado
tahini
nicoise olives
processed lard
cabbage
cured raw ham
and, of course, the occasional nut


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4 comments:

Hugo Minor said...

Try this:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=nutty+flavor&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

June Casagrande said...

Gotta love that NGram viewer! Who knew nothing had a nutty flavor before 1820. I bet back then foodstuffs were more likely to be described as "distinctly buffalo-y, with subtle notes of fat tack."

LL Blackwell said...

Is nutty the elusive sixth flavor?

June Casagrande said...

Like: salty, sweet, sour, filbert? Could be.

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