Pistachios taste alot better direct from the shell

This is common knowledge. How long have you been eating them without shells?

You'll be shocked to learn that water is wet.

Way back in the days of High School my best friend's 1st job was in a place named Carter's Nuts in Memphis. This was back when Carter was president, but no relation btw. The pistachio's were imported from Iran until the Shah was deposed and the hostages taken. Took the store a while to secure supply from California after that and the prices skyrocketed.

Before nuts went nuts after the political stuff, we would leave the study hall floor trashed with shells from bags of pistachios, almonds, and peanuts daily. The white salted pistachios from Iran were sooo good, almost like eating fattened up for slaughter sunflower seeds.

All us old-timers remember when they used to dye the shells red. Hell i thought that was the color of their shells for a long time . The worst part was after you were done eating your hands were red. I agree the shelled ones are the best.

I have to disagree. I buy the shelled ones. Tips of my fingers get irritated shelling a lot of pistachios.