h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Unlike the more common English walnut, which has no quarrel with, the black walnut disagrees with me violently, indeed my skin starts to prickle if I approach within fifty feet of a black walnut tree in leaf.

Its not that I don't like black walnuts, as a matter of fact I think them not only magnificent trees at their best, but also find the nuts quite tasty.

Alas!

I am, though, terribly allergic.

Aaah!

But come the seasonal leaf fall and a cleansing rain, I can safely approach the tree to gather nuts, which I've found, given their hardness and aerodynamic properties, make excellent slingshot ammunition.

I wish you happy hunting, then!

The squirrels keep carrying them away, one by one.

Every once in a while, one tries to bury a walnut in our yard. I hear Elektra yelling, 'No! Stop that! Take it to the neighbours'!'