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- Jonny5alive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40What about doughnuts?
- 5m0k3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34"Why Are Cashews The Only Nut You Can't Buy In A Shell?"
Because there is an elephant in the way... - RedHerringHack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20If you had RTFA you would know that macadamia nuts CAN be had in the shell.
- benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18this article just made me realize that i spend way too much time on digg...
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17***** raisins. Raisins suck.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Problem Exists Between Koala And Chair?
- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I prefer shelled corn nuts....
- bryant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Ooh! Ooh!
I can offer an explanation!
It's because cashews aren't nuts!
(Hooray for useless knowledge!)
EDIT: Almost forgot. They're seeds, not nuts. - Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11"Let's Do This, I'm a cashew!"
- detrux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The reason cashews do not come with their shells is because the proper way to prepare and extract the nut is by roasting them over a open fire in a large pan. The toxic oil seep out of the nut, and are highly flammable! Once the oil ignites, you tip over the pan onto the ground (preferably sand), and try not to burn anyone standing around. After this you grab a hammer, and crack open the shells.
I collected cashew nuts like this with this for a few months with villagers in a small village in Thailand, on the border of Myanmar. Not only is the nut toxic, but the fruit is highly toxic as well- one volunteer thought the fruit juice would be good for her skin and proceeded to rub it all over her face- a few hours later you could hear her screaming in pain because her face had swelled and her skin had begun to peel from her face! After that I always recommended to other travelers that I didn't like that they should try rubbing a ripe cashew fruit on their face after getting sun burned >:) - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Pick up their turkish pistachios if you get a chance, they're vastly superior to anything out there sans zenobia.com.
There's lots of things that are poisonous but I didn't know cashews was one of them. Interestingly enough the potatoes are actually poisonous, they contain solanine and are a member of the nightshade family of plants. Too many raw potatoes will do you in quite nicely. - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"LIUOTFI"
look it up on the ***** internet? - Gee455, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"But, come to think of it, you can get almonds... and even macadamia nuts in a shell."
=) - kingfelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4gleepglop2, you've got to be joking. i used to get like a freaking stocking full of brazil nuts every christmas.
- cheekdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i never knew you could buy brazil nuts WITHOUT the shells when i was growing up.
- Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I used to get Brazil nuts in the shell every holiday season as part of a mixed nut assortment. As a matter of fact every nut in the package was in it's shell. We'd place them in the nut bowl with the nutcracker and pick. I would think you can still get them that way.
BTW it usually required a hammer to crack open the Brazil nuts. - Cappez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I visited a cashew nut factory in India...the shells were cracked open one by one by PEOPLE using archaic 'cracking' machines (basically a heavy-duty walnut cracker). So next you munch on a handful, consider how much time and care might have been taken to remove each and every one of those from its shell - if its from one of those non-automated factories.
- Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Cashews are not legumes, but peanuts are and for that reason they are not real nuts either.
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4How much do you want to bet that we're about to real world "Digg Effect" Trader Joe's national supply of Lime and Chili Cashews???? :)
- adamlaz2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow....
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/albums/userpics/10001/mixednuts1.jpg - Spec8472, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"You can't buy macadamia nuts in a shell, either."
In Australia, you can buy unshelled Macadamia nuts. The fibrous green outer mesh/layer is removed, but the actual shell itself is unopened. - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I make wine out of raisins, that way I don't have to wait to drink it.
- loudthing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3a cashew fruit looks like an apple taking a poop.....
but it's stuck... - Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"***** raisins. Raisins suck."
Can't refuse this open invitation:
You /do/ know that the proper translation of the Koran states that there will be 72 pure white (virgin) raisins ready for fermentation into wine at the entrance into Heaven?
I just absolutely convulse with laughter thinking that those poor morons, expecting to poke their peckers into something they never had, nor will never have, trying to ram their ding-dong into a bunch of teeny raisins. - dggeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"You can't buy macadamia nuts in a shell, either."
Try looking somewhere other than Wal-Mart. - MCBROCK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd kill to get the fruit in the US. It is delicious. In Brazil, most people toss the nut and eat the fruit. I haven't even found a good comparison to how it tastes.
- adamlaz2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is probably what you are talking about...
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/albums/userpics/10001/mixednuts1.jpg - iamorlando, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cashews come from a fruit that in spanish is called Marañon.
The fruit itself is delicieous. In Panama you can often get it right off the tree, which grows wild in many areas. There is no need to peel the fruit, you only need to bite into it. The whole fruit is edible, exept for the cashew. The fruit is sweet and strangely, it numbs your mouth when you it it. It gives you the sensation that your mouth is full of cotton. It is very juicy and if the juice falls on clothe it will often permanently stain it. In Panama, you often see people by the road side boiling the cashews to sell the nuts - otatop, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I guess it's hard for me to deny not reading the article, so I'll just fess up to being busted. I seem to remember reading a story recently that asked why you couldn't find unshelled macadamia nuts, though, possibly even on digg, leading me to believe you couldn't. Oh well.
- warMen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've had such bad experiences with Urushiol oil, especially with poison ivy and Mangos (They are part of the Sumac family as well. The skin contains the urushiol oil, otherwise they're good. I just peeled it and ate it with my hands that fateful morning) the mango one was kinda funny cause just my just my lips swelled up, but the dermatologist said I had the worst reaction he's ever seen so far for that year. I run on trails a lot and each time I get it the reaction gets worse. So, I stay far away from cashews.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah?
http://www.macnuts.org/ - prammy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was born in the state of Kerala in India. A city called Kollam which is around 2 hours from where I live is pretty famous for its Cashews and is the biggest export product from that city. Every time I visit India, I go there and buy a LOT of cashews. And yes the article is right. Its habit forming :)
- sergeantmudd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I always found the fruit very under-whelming. It wasn't bad, but it definitely wasn't good. It was free and plentiful where I lived and I rarely saw people eating it.
Side note to the whole cashew discussion. There really needs to be some kind of Fair Trade Cashews. The whole industry is shady. Farmers only get about ten cents a pound for the unprocessed nut. And apparently the middlemen run the industry like mobsters. - 1lenore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Most of us are not in the Caribbean.
- bobsalt1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1bah! looking on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew, looks like its an acid!
I always heard it was a base when i lived there. - nmeadata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Makes me wonder about those potato chips with the green edges.
From link below:
DID YOU KNOW THAT POTATO SPROUTS ARE POISONOUS? There is no problem with the potato; just cut off the sprouts, and it's fine for eating. A sprout of any size can be toxic, but you'd have to eat many sprouts to get sick. Do not buy if they have sprouted or have a green tint to the skin.
The same is true for potatoes that turn a greenish hue. A potato in this condition is "light-struck." This happens when a chemical, just beneath the potato's skin, reacts to light. The green part will taste a little bitter, but if you peel it off, the rest of the potato will taste fine.
http://whatscookingamerica.net/potato.htm
No more tater talk from me. - Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yep, that's a brazil nut right in the middle and another just below.
- nmeadata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Potato sprouts are poisonous, not the potato, or was that potatoe...
- shosterman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those poor Indians, they should work in a Chinese factory to churn out iPods.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cashew&oldid=103959359
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew#Uses explains everything
- Seph7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I heard about the truth of cashew nuts a while back, interesting stuff. I guess if you don't come across the actual thing and just the processed outcome you never find out where it comes from. That really says something about the way buy stuff today, if it comes off the shelf pre packaged we just assume it got their the way that we assume it did if that makes sense.
- dimension, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cashews aren't nuts, they are seeds.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can't believe we're having a spud debate. :p
I stick by my assertion that they can be deadly. You're linking to a decidedly biased resource.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato#Toxic_compounds_in_potatoes
"Breeders try to keep solanine levels below 0.2 mg/g (200 ppmw). However, when even these commercial varieties turn green, they can approach concentrations of solanine of 1 mg/g (1000 ppmw). Some studies suggest that 200 mg of solanine can constitute a dangerous dose. This dose would require eating 1 average-sized spoiled potato or 4 to 9 good potatoes (over 3 pounds or 1.4 kg) at one time." - underrun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"These nuts are making ME thirsty!!"
(any and all racial slurs have been omitted from this quote) - bobsalt1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they say you can pick the nut off of the fruit and throw it in a fire for a while and its good to eat.
I think the most interesting part is the fruit. It has a very high base and can be used as an antacid. Supposedly, if you get the juice on your clothes they will stain them.( I never tried) You can eat the fruit right off the tree, as cashew juice and candied cashews. I have even used pastel wraps and deep fried cashew fruit in it, dipped it in sugar.
Its even better when you have been sitting in a shack about 160km off the nearest paved road for a few months -lol - jevinr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Everyone in the Caribbean knows this! Cashew nuts contain a caustic fluid. WOW! Why the big fuss?... did you all really not know this? Are we all so ignorant to where our food comes from and how it comes to look like it is in the packages!?
Anyway, cashew wine is supposed to be really great tasting, my uncle could make it, but i never tried it.
Also, when someone is "roasting cashews" to remove the shells, everyone in the neighborhood knows, since the sweet scent of cashew permeates the air for miles.
I have a tree in my back yard. I've never had the "fruit" part before, but I know for a fact that it is not toxic as detrux stated 3 hours ago ["Not only is the nut toxic, but the fruit is highly toxic as well- one volunteer thought the fruit juice would be good for her skin and proceeded to rub it all over her face- a few hours later you could hear her screaming in pain because her face had swelled and her skin had begun to peel from her face!"]
That girl probably had an allergic reaction to it. People eat this [cashew fruit] all the time.
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Jevin K. Ramjattan [http://humanotechnology.blogspot.com] - arqui, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If anyone wants to sample the cashew fruit you can find cashew juice concentrate (jugo de marañon) at most major grocery stores that have a latin foods section. It's usually a thick yellow color.
Blend it with ice, lime juice, sugar and some vodka! - bros53, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ever try the cinnamon coated almonds? Save up for dental work.
- conjuror1972, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My thoughts exactly..im just now realizing between my newsfire and reddit..digg has pretty much become a site thats rehashing stuff i read the day before. This needs to change......
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