This year, the nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Lausanne, which are entering a critical phase ahead of a major deadline, are being debated over dried fruits, pistachio nuts and watermelon seeds.
I go nuts for coconut, so this week's theme has turned the supposedly most miserable week of the year into a round-the-world trip of brilliant breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
I drive my friends nuts because I'm always going on to the next idea, the next plan.
Lazarus Baushe, an elder of the Wagga community, said: "They left 1,500 naira (£5.67) and some kola nuts in each home where they seized a woman, apparently as a bride price".
"So we got up in the morning and I've got me suit on – the nuts, know what I mean?
The one side-effect of Annuale was a raging, psychopathic bout of PMS – think Fey swinging an axe, Casey Wilson diving face-first into a birthday cake, Poehler repeatedly kicking a guy in the nuts or Kristen Wiig making out with a dog.
Next it's time to get down to the nuts and bolts.
"Doesn't half hurt when they get you in the nuts," groans Alan.
A noble dish that once graced the banquet tables of the imperial Mughal court, rich with cream and nuts and heavily scented with expensive spice, has become a byword for bland, a "starter" curry, beloved of children and others with unadventurous tastes.
Fold in the nuts and the rest of the chocolate, then sift in the flour and salt and fold into the mix.
Among those there was Carol Wilcox, from Christchurch CLP ("Don't tell my delegation; they'll go nuts), a platform speaker at Labour during the economic debate on the previous day, who came to push her case for a land tax.
