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shillyshally t1_j8qn88r wrote

Here's an even better bit - cashews are closely related to poison ivy and, if improperly cleaned cashews are consumed, you can come down with what is essentially an internal poison ivy-like condition.

Source - been there, done that.

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lurklurklurkPOST t1_j8qp8ea wrote

Well it would be weird if the fruit belonged to some other tree and it was growing in a cashew tree

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yesmaybeyes t1_j8qpxq8 wrote

I do not think I have ever seen a cashew apple.

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Gilgie t1_j8qq8qs wrote

So what does the cashew fruit taste like? Is it edible?

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Ultimarad t1_j8qqzgm wrote

Did you know that cashews cashews come from a fruit?

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DearFeralRural t1_j8qrs2a wrote

Dont open the seed pod that the cashew is in. Its surrounded by toxic caustic substances. I chuck mine in an old metal wheelbarrow and burn the cover off.

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JaiC t1_j8qrtnx wrote

Thanks for ruining Milo Murphy's Law, you monster.

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akoaytao1234 t1_j8qv37q wrote

those things stings so hard too if handled fresh lol.

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BrokenEye3 t1_j8qyvgr wrote

Cashews are seeds. Almonds are pits. Peanuts are legumes. I'm starting to wonder if the only real nuts in the world are those of the deez tree.

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FormalRaccoon637 t1_j8rcdl7 wrote

My grandpa used to roast the whole seed casing, break them open to get to the nut, and roast the nuts before giving them to me. I didn’t understand the reason he gave due to language barriers, but understood it after reading your comment.

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HeliumIsotope t1_j8rj72a wrote

Serious question, what is this post supposed to accomplish? Is it a troll? Did you mis read the title? Did you think you were helping somehow?

Because the post is literally about how cashews come from the fruit of a cashew tree. So what is posting the phrase "Did you know that cashews come from a fruit" as the entirety of your response to OP supposed to accomplish? I don't follow the logic here.

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wolf8808 t1_j8rk9a4 wrote

Not really great to be honest. I once did the mistake of biting into both the cashew apple and the cover of the cashew seed (big no no), my gums started bleeding. That stuff is nasty.

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rks404 t1_j8rm0a4 wrote

read the article and just discovered cashews are native to South America. Were they part of the Columbian Exchange?

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dchallenge t1_j8rti36 wrote

It tastes like an unripe apple. Or maybe the one I had wasn’t ripe.;

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timtomtommytom t1_j8s29h5 wrote

The people that harvest them often have permanently damaged hands from the poison on them.

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vashtachordata t1_j8s70g5 wrote

Looked this up a few days ago after watching the sesame steer episode where the show the cashew farm.

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nerdychick22 t1_j8s90ii wrote

Probably a similar storry with making ackee edible in Jamaica (not ripe is somewhat poisonus). If you have a whole lot of something you start wondering how it can be used or changed to be useable, and people start experimenting.

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happyklam t1_j8secj1 wrote

When I went on a tour in Belize they said it makes a great wine that re-ferments in your stomach so you get drunk twice. Pretty wild concept and surprised it's not sold/produced much outside of Central America.

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loskaos t1_j8sk7qz wrote

The Juice is just disgusting, the smell and that feeling it leaves in your throat ugh. I think if someone has the chance to try the fruit they could like it, but its never going to be something that you will ever miss.

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drottkvaett t1_j8sohm3 wrote

It’s about as sweet as a watermelon and has a tropical taste. If you’ve had Five Alive, it tastes almost like that. The juice is great with cachaça or vodka and a little salt. Just make sure it’s ripe.

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weaselmaster t1_j8soygl wrote

OMG - who wrote this? An excellent snippet:

“The raw cashews are then roasted at high heat, either by steaming them in a large rotating drum or vat of boiling oil to remove urushiol remnants before they can be shelled, thoroughly dried, and peeled.”

So, they’re ROASTED by STEAMING them in BOILING OIL.

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Excellent_Taste4941 t1_j8srxkj wrote

Native people in South America used to migrate and fight wars all because of cashews, their season is in summer, december, january

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Nairbfs79 t1_j8stmx3 wrote

We drink ALOT of the juice in Brasil. It's Caju.

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sb_747 t1_j8t3iza wrote

Do you work at my office? Because I just explained this to 5 people this morning

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muffinhead2580 t1_j8t4t92 wrote

Pawpaws are the absolute best. I live in WV and they are extremely prevalent here. So when my wife and I go on hikes I take a backpack and just pick them when they are ripe. So good.

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zerodivzero t1_j8t5c2t wrote

Called Caju in Brazil and it's more like a bell pepper than an apple. I've seen people eat them raw right off the tree. Locals pile them up and burn them by the side of the road the extract the nut inside. The flesh is delicious when squeezed into a juice.

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HowdieHighHowdieHoe t1_j8thimm wrote

No it’s a thing. I developed a latex allergy and I had to give up any foods that contain natural latex like bananas (turns out they’re not supposed to burn the roof of your mouth), and I’m supposed to go easy stuff like a avocados. If I eat them regularly it could slowly make my allergy worse, same with coming into contact with latex products.

Sometimes it’s not the FRUIT you’re allergic to, but a COMPOUND inside the fruit.

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Dangeresque2015 t1_j8tiotl wrote

Sorry, you can't talk me out of loving cashews. It'll take a severe beating.

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bparry1192 t1_j8ury2b wrote

For me it's the relatively complex to make foods like cheese, wine, soy sauce etc.....like how the fuck did peeps invent these 17 step processes to make food, while their 11 children all have some disease that could be solved by hand washing

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Noneerror t1_j8uvfak wrote

Huh. Interesting. I'm immune to poison ivy. And cashews do a lot to help me with my chronic stomach problems. I wonder if it's related. Where I'm not getting enough poison in my diet.

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AngryRinger t1_j8uvwgi wrote

D-d-d-did you know that cashews come from a fruit? What?! -Tobuscus

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HeliumIsotope t1_j8ycgel wrote

Probably. Was hoping that the "serious question" part would make people understand that I was genuinely asking haha.

Not a big deal though, in the end I got a good answer and that's all that matters. No offense was intended, the person I responded to never let me know they found my comment rude or aggressive and I got a real answer. That's about as good as it gets sometimes.

I can come off as rough, but I'm always genuine and take feedback when the person I respond to has a problem. I can't let random people with no stake in the Convo get me down. If they want to downvote to teach me a lesson, so be it lol. Only way to change is to discuss in a respectful way, if they can't do that I won't be bothered and I'll just laugh it off.

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TowerAZ t1_j94ko0l wrote

What is the fruit then called? Like is the fruit called a cashew?

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