Pistachio a sudden 50% loss in the Australian pistachio harvest. Several years of severe drought in Iran around 2008 to 2015 caused significant declines in production. In 2016, world production of pistachios was 1.1 million tonnes, with the United States and Iran as leading producers, together accounting for 68% of the total (table). Secondary producers were Turkey and China. The kernels are often eaten whole, either fresh or roasted and salted, and are also used in pistachio ice cream, kulfi, spumoni, historically in Neapolitan ice cream, pistachio butter, pistachio paste and confections such as baklava, pistachio chocolate, pistachio halva, pistachio lokum
Nuts in May (rhyme) is a variant of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush", with which it shares a tune and closing line. Nuts are not gathered in England in May. The lyrics are probably a corruption of "knots of may", referring to the blossom of the common hawthorn. Another possible "nut" is the corm or tuber of "Conopodium majus", commonly called pignut, groundnut etc. and easily found in May when the plant flowers. These "nuts" were commonly gathered by children as they grow under the ground sparsely, so they were not a viable food source to be gathered in quantities by adults.