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(65,403 posts)rsdsharp
(9,186 posts)Wawannabe
(5,661 posts)When I read your reply!
Hahaha!
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,011 posts)magicarpet
(14,155 posts)Just one cashew at the base of the pear.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)So weird. Is the "fruit" edible?
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)However, the cashew is not. It has to be shelled and roasted to remove the toxin.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)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
(111,276 posts)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.
IcyPeas
(21,889 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Warpy
(111,276 posts)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.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...that artichokes were edible.
DFW
(54,405 posts)I will remain eternally grateful!
zanana1
(6,122 posts)I'll bet the person who found that the cashew can be eaten had to eat alot of awful stuff before his discovery.
NNadir
(33,525 posts)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
(1,366 posts)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.
Blue Owl
(50,425 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)applegrove
(118,687 posts)me. Recently someone who grew up in El Salvador told me they dump the cashew and eat the fruit.
Bev54
(10,053 posts)We could pick them, roast and salt them ourselves. It was a pretty fun experience.
Wawannabe
(5,661 posts)Now I gotta go look this up!
My all time Favorite nut!
DFW
(54,405 posts)It looks like hes saying, dont even THINK of roasting and salting ME!
Harker
(14,024 posts)DFW
(54,405 posts)Not because I fear Ebonites, but I remember regularly watching The Outer Limits.
As a tot, I begged to be allowed to stay up for it, only to panic and flee when the Control Voice took over.
DFW
(54,405 posts)The Chicken Heart That Ate New York City
AmyStrange
(7,989 posts)-
The ***** rhymes with dump.
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