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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.
Where did I get the idea that the liquid that surrounds a cashew nut - or cashew "nut" - is poisonous?
It's a common enough belief that I once had an argument with someone who insisted I could not have had cashew juice.
I am glad to be unburdened of my false belief! However, I still don't think I'll be drinking any cashew juice. It just sounds gross.
Drupe juice. eww
Drupe juice. eww
Peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, and nectarines are drupes.
Drupe juice, yum!
so, stone fruits?
so, stone fruits?
Yep.
So, is there flesh that grows around an almond seed like a peach?
Wikipedia sez:
The fruit is a drupe 3.5–6 cm long, with a downy outer coat. The outer covering or exocarp, fleshy in other members of Prunus such as the plum and cherry, is instead a leathery grey-green coating called the hull, which contains inside a hard shell, and the edible seed, commonly called a nut in culinary terms. Generally, one seed is present, but occasionally there are two. In botanical terms, an almond is not a true nut. The reticulated hard woody shell (like the outside of a peach pit) surrounding the edible seed is called the endocarp.
Pictures! [link]
When I was a kid I always loved it when a peach pit was a little cracked and you could work it open and see the part inside that looked like an almond.
Imagine my geeky glee when I discovered that that is pretty much what almonds are.
I still haven't roasted the insides of peach pits. I'll have to try that sooner or later.