Walnuts on a table with the nut cracker in a bowl, Photo Credit: Reddit
Online commenters quickly weighed in once the mystery was solved, many sharing memories of a time when cracking nuts was a hands-on family ritual. One user recalled how baking meant buying whole walnuts and cracking them manually, rather than grabbing a ready-made bag from the store. Another noted that nut picks often came bundled with nutcracker sets and doubled as tools for extracting meat from lobster legs or crab shells.
