On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 04:47:37 -0400, Lynne <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I've never seen macadamia nuts in the shell, so I don't know how difficult >they might be to crack. I can tell you that macadamia shells are the strongest container you could imagine with a nut. It't a complete almost perfectely round sphere without a visible split like with walnuts. They ought to be very hard to crack for any animal. However with stone they can be cracked. Not very easily, but a ordinary stone will do. Domain of humanity. I love macadamias. They are very tasty and very fatty too. Macadamia fat I heard contains some kind of fat that is found on the skin of newborn babies. Might do good applied on the skin as well. Amadeus