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This is how cashews grow.... (Original Post) IcyPeas Feb 2021 OP
Fascinating! Looks like pears pooping out angry faces. (K&R and thanks.) nt tblue37 Feb 2021 #1
Yeah, that middle one looks pissed. rsdsharp Feb 2021 #4
Really glad I didn't have something in my mouth Wawannabe Feb 2021 #17
ROFL! 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2021 #6
Exactly! MLAA Feb 2021 #8
Yeah,.. I saw that,... isn't that odd. magicarpet Feb 2021 #2
They look like gargoyles! dawg day Feb 2021 #3
Yes it is. Sweet and juicy but very perishable. Phoenix61 Feb 2021 #5
I stayed with a friend in Brazil last year SharonClark Feb 2021 #7
Then this Warpy Feb 2021 #9
Hey that's true. you never see cashews sold in their shell. IcyPeas Feb 2021 #10
Cuz.... poisonous soothsayer Feb 2021 #12
There's a video of a mostly mechanized processing plant in Vietnam Warpy Feb 2021 #13
I always wonder about the first person who figured out... 3catwoman3 Feb 2021 #19
Whoever it was DFW Feb 2021 #20
Yeah; you have to wonder. zanana1 Feb 2021 #22
It may have been the guy or gal who founded the Giant Artichoke restaurant in Castroville CA. NNadir Feb 2021 #23
Got some firsthand experience with the Poison Ivy connection. marked50 Feb 2021 #24
Bizarre! Blue Owl Feb 2021 #11
No wonder they are expensive. But I love them. Hoyt Feb 2021 #14
I totally didn't believe it when someone who grew up on a farm in Haiti told applegrove Feb 2021 #15
When I lived in Thailand Bev54 Feb 2021 #16
I didn't! Wawannabe Feb 2021 #18
That one in the middle DFW Feb 2021 #21
My first thought... an Ebonite. Harker Feb 2021 #27
That is scary DFW Feb 2021 #28
As do I. Harker Feb 2021 #29
And then, of course, came the awakening DFW Feb 2021 #30
The one on the left looks a little bit like *****! AmyStrange Feb 2021 #25
Gesundheit. n/t Harker Feb 2021 #26

Phoenix61

(16,952 posts)
5. Yes it is. Sweet and juicy but very perishable.
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 10:48 PM
Feb 2021

However, the cashew is not. It has to be shelled and roasted to remove the toxin.

SharonClark

(10,005 posts)
7. I stayed with a friend in Brazil last year
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 10:53 PM
Feb 2021

and she had a variety of fruit and nut trees on her property. The cashew was the most unexpected looking. Her housekeeper made drinks out of all of them.

Warpy

(110,907 posts)
9. Then this
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 10:54 PM
Feb 2021


I love them. I'd love to see some enterprising gourmand in Vietnam or India start to bottle the juice. I think there would be a market for it.

Warpy

(110,907 posts)
13. There's a video of a mostly mechanized processing plant in Vietnam
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:16 PM
Feb 2021

The workers are wearing gloves and masks, but the machinery made my fingers hurt.

There are foods out there that sort of amaze me that our ancestors were desperate enough to try: sea urchin, bird's nests, and cashews top the list.

zanana1

(6,085 posts)
22. Yeah; you have to wonder.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 08:02 AM
Feb 2021

I'll bet the person who found that the cashew can be eaten had to eat alot of awful stuff before his discovery.

NNadir

(33,368 posts)
23. It may have been the guy or gal who founded the Giant Artichoke restaurant in Castroville CA.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 09:27 AM
Feb 2021

When I lived in California, it was a required stop when my tourist friends from the East went on the Big Sur/San Francisco/Lake Tahoe/Yosemite/Kings Canyon/Sequoia/Mohave Tour out of LA, and eventually, San Diego.

I don't know if the Giant Artichoke restaurant is still there, but I hope it is. I'm not sure if the fried artichoke hearts were good for you, but they were delicious.

marked50

(1,350 posts)
24. Got some firsthand experience with the Poison Ivy connection.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 10:36 AM
Feb 2021

When I was young I had some really serious poison ivy infections. I am sure my body built up some sort of immune reaction to that plant.

Years later I consumed some cashews in a mix and shortly afterwards I felt like I was going to die- literally. It took hours to recover. Now, I had had cashews before and had no effect so I really didn't connect this incident to the cashews.

Then I had some straight from a can - no confusion with other food consumption - and the death stalked me again. Found out when I investigated cashews I came across the poison ivy connection and put 2 and 2 together.

Have stayed away religiously since and never have had a reoccurrence.

Great video showing the dangers here.

applegrove

(118,018 posts)
15. I totally didn't believe it when someone who grew up on a farm in Haiti told
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:50 PM
Feb 2021

me. Recently someone who grew up in El Salvador told me they dump the cashew and eat the fruit.

Bev54

(9,961 posts)
16. When I lived in Thailand
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 11:55 PM
Feb 2021

We could pick them, roast and salt them ourselves. It was a pretty fun experience.

DFW

(54,051 posts)
21. That one in the middle
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 03:40 AM
Feb 2021

It looks like he‘s saying, „don‘t even THINK of roasting and salting ME!“

DFW

(54,051 posts)
28. That is scary
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 03:43 PM
Feb 2021

Not because I fear Ebonites, but I remember regularly watching The Outer Limits.

Harker

(13,877 posts)
29. As do I.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 03:46 PM
Feb 2021

As a tot, I begged to be allowed to stay up for it, only to panic and flee when the Control Voice took over.

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