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.
Eggs. The living legend needs eggs. Or maybe another milk.
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Trudy Booth - Sep 07, 2009 8:20:35 pm PDT #22272 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
Zenkitty - Sep 07, 2009 8:27:30 pm PDT #22273 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
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
Hil R. - Sep 07, 2009 8:29:35 pm PDT #22274 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Drupe juice. eww
Peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, and nectarines are drupes.
Laga - Sep 07, 2009 8:36:55 pm PDT #22275 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Drupe juice, yum!
Vortex - Sep 07, 2009 8:37:28 pm PDT #22276 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
so, stone fruits?
Hil R. - Sep 07, 2009 8:38:47 pm PDT #22277 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
so, stone fruits?
Yep.
Laga - Sep 07, 2009 8:39:47 pm PDT #22278 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
So, is there flesh that grows around an almond seed like a peach?
Hil R. - Sep 07, 2009 8:42:01 pm PDT #22279 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
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Trudy Booth - Sep 07, 2009 8:47:44 pm PDT #22280 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
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.
Trudy Booth - Sep 07, 2009 8:49:39 pm PDT #22281 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
I also want to figure out how to eat acorns. I used to gather BUCKETS of them because they were awesome.