Same as DR Matthew on the nuts. Walnuts are the one weird one for me, but at least now I can eat them as opposed to when I was a kid. I can actually appreciate a Waldorf Salad type of thing now, and I do enjoy a chicken salad with apples, cranberries and walnuts I buy at Shop Rite.
And cookies? Leave your frickin nuts out of my cookies, please. Their taste and texture are an utter distraction from what a cookie is supposed to be. This goes for brownies, too. Especially brownies. And cakes or whatever.
Okay, a couple of exceptions to that. Some pieces of peanuts in good peanut butter cookies? Sure, why not. And I do like me some macadamias, inside or outside of cookies. But something like oatmeal raisin cookies that have walnuts in them, however ground up they may be?
No. Thank. You.