"...gold for a few walnuts." - Democratic Underground

YankeyMCC

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Thu May-18-06 07:54 AM
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"...gold for a few walnuts."

Part of a quote from the Iranian President out the article "Iran Snubs Europe's Nuclear Plan" in today's NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/world/middleeast/18iran.html

Walnuts?

This sounds like something out of a kids fable or something. Like swapping a cow for a few beans for people raised on "Jack and the Beanstalk" etc...

Anyone now what, if any, the reference to walnuts comes from?

Don't know why but it struck my curiosity.

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