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
Truck nuts Truck nuts Truck nuts, also called truck nutz, are vehicle vanity accessories resembling a pair of dangling testicles. They are attached under the rear bumper or trailer hitch making them plainly visible to other vehicles behind. The truck nuts phenomenon existed in small numbers as custom-made nuts beginning in the 1980s. The earliest known commercial store-bought truck nuts appeared in the late 1990s but still remained a limited phenomenon. However sometime in the mid to late 2000s, their popularity surged, and truck nuts became well known throughout society even featuring on national television shows. A number of people claim to