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Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


§ ita § - Sep 07, 2009 6:05:56 pm PDT #22250 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What's not nutty about almonds and cashews? We eat the fruit around cashews and almonds and as kids ignored the nutty potential. Perhaps we were right all along.


Hil R. - Sep 07, 2009 6:09:37 pm PDT #22251 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Yep, they're drupes: [link]


billytea - Sep 07, 2009 6:10:18 pm PDT #22252 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Macadamia nuts seem valid

And tasty! And the only native Australian crop to achieve any sort of large-scale cultivation.


Hil R. - Sep 07, 2009 6:13:47 pm PDT #22253 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

And tasty! And the only native Australian crop to achieve any sort of large-scale cultivation.

However, wikipedia also gives this somewhat startling bit of information:

1858 - Walter Hill, Superintendent of the Brisbane City Botanical Gardens, observes a boy eating the nut without ill effect, becoming the first non-indigenous person recorded to eat Macadamia.

Which pretty much gives the impression that he thought there would be ill effect, saw the boy eating the nut, and rather than stopping him, decided to observe him and see what would happen.


billytea - Sep 07, 2009 6:26:20 pm PDT #22254 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Which pretty much gives the impression that he thought there would be ill effect, saw the boy eating the nut, and rather than stopping him, decided to observe him and see what would happen.

He might also simply not have had time to react. I, however, prefer to think that he was the one actively feeding the boy macadamias.


DCJensen - Sep 07, 2009 6:33:40 pm PDT #22255 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Macadamia nuts seem valid

And tasty! And the only native Australian crop to achieve any sort of large-scale cultivation.

Every macadamia nut I have ever tried reminded me too much of munching on chalk.

ETA: Maybe I've had some bad luck?


Trudy Booth - Sep 07, 2009 6:42:18 pm PDT #22256 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

So are people allergic to nuts not allergic to drupes?


Hil R. - Sep 07, 2009 6:47:13 pm PDT #22257 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

So are people allergic to nuts not allergic to drupes?

A quick google seems to say that some people who are allergic to nuts are actually only allergic to certain families of nuts, so some of them are allergic to drupes and others aren't. [link]


Laga - Sep 07, 2009 6:56:49 pm PDT #22258 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

drupe drupe drupe drupe drupe. Why have I not heard this word before?


DCJensen - Sep 07, 2009 6:58:41 pm PDT #22259 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Don't be duped, buy a drupe.