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Where did I get the idea that the liquid that surrounds a cashew nut - or cashew "nut" - is poisonous?
I had thought that something in the fruit or outer skin was caustic - I've heard it mostly in the context of it being dangerous/painful for the people doing the harvesting. Huh.
Most almond extracts are made from the nut inside the pit of apricots. Cherry pits also have that same almond flavor.
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.
I still do! No, really.
Aha! That would explain why my "allergic to nuts" neighbor brought over that nummy cashew/miso green bean thing that one time. (I guess it's easier to tell people who are cooking for you "allergic to nuts" than "allergic to nuts except for these things which are nutlike but botanically distinct.")
I have coffee, but I am not waking up.
I love learning new and interesting things from buffistas. Drupes!
ImemeN, I am so very sunburned.
Most almond extracts are made from the nut inside the pit of apricots. Cherry pits also have that same almond flavor.
Which is why you leave the pits IN when you make clafouti!
I need to investigate this cyanide peach pit thing... its in bitter almonds too so that makes sense. Is it all peaches? (It's not in sweet almonds). What about plums? Apricots? I deffinately want to crack open a cherry pit and roast whatever teensy little almond thing is in there.
And clearly the range of acorns needs investigating as well.
I have coffee, but I am not waking up.
This is not a good thing. I'm actually pretty perky now, but I've been up for 4 hours already. 2 hours ago? NSM.
I am very much enjoying my morning tea after the nasty hotel tea yesterday. Still not quite awake though.
I'm still feeling as if I'm Coming Down With Something. Just kind of bleah and rundown and alternating tickly throat with feeling as if something is lodged in there.
Combined with DRAHMA on a writer's loop I'm on and I have zero patience. Next person on that loop to say something unbearably stupid may find themselves at the end of a virtual tongue-lashing from me. I'm feeling very Ilyria and "I want to hurt something."
I'm still feeling as if I'm Coming Down With Something. Just kind of bleah and rundown and alternating tickly throat with feeling as if something is lodged in there.
That's pretty much how I've been feeling for about 2 weeks. Let me know if you find a way to conquer it.