![]() ![]() Hoffman wrote the story The Nutcracker and the King of Mice. (Although woodworkers made nutcrackers of many character shapes much earlier than that.) Around the same time in 1816, E.T.A. ![]() shell battle for so long, but cracking nuts has a slow-food loveliness to it.Īccording to Arlene Wagner of the Nutcracker Museum, nutcracker soldiers were made in the Erzgebirge region of Germany around 1800. Machines now shell our nuts because really, who can be bothered with the effort and mess of fumbling with snacks when we’re doing something as important as, say, watching TV? And how are we supposed to be on our computers while we’re using our hands to crack nuts? Mechanical separation is intoxicating to we who fought the man vs. Nuts are more popular than ever, with reams of studies touting their health benefits.īut nutcrackers of any kind, even the standard two-pronged lever, fell out of fashion as society moved toward less work and quick reward. My search for a functional soldier nutcracker is as perplexing as the actual cracking of the nut was to mankind for millennia, before we created tools to violently bash through the seemingly impenetrable shell and get to the sweet-meat reward inside.
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