I do grate my own nutmeg and I agree that it has a much better taste than the jarred stuff. I guess my lame attempt at humor flopped.

That said, I remember when I first started cooking after I left home I cooked with margarine, fake vanilla, and had no idea what a nutmeg looked like. It made me CRAZY when my food snob friends would freak out and tell me what an awful cook I was for using these ingredients. Mind you, they still ate their weight in the cookies that I made with those ingredients.