Have you ever had this experience? You are sitting with others, a bowl of pistachios is placed on the table, and suddenly everyone starts cracking them open and eating. There is something bonding about eating pistachios together - and it is fun as well. Because every nut you remove from its shell tastes so much better than a biscuit simply taken out of a packet. And the later it gets the more creative the ideas become: The shells soon take on the shape of an animal, a name or a map.