There's always the exception of course - and, on paper at least, Phil Hilton, ex-editor of lads' magazine Nuts, couldn't be more distanced from the stereotypical Austen fan.
And they've gotten nasty looks from parents on Skylar's T-ball team after her coach requested that a child who'd been eating nuts put them away and wash his hands.
When he first pitched the concept to Social Security officials in the mid-1980s, "They told me they couldn't even study it because Congress would go nuts, " Goodman says.