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I HATE PONIES

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Where in the fuck did all of the red pistachios go. I can't find them anywhere.
 
They're called Native American Pistachios now. Any one of the normal ones caught in "pink face" will be sternly dismissed as horrible people doing horrific things.
 
I hadn't seen them for years and then I came across some recently at a local bulk foods store. IIRC they were a buck a pound more than the others, nope I'll just buy the un dyed ones instead.

My big WTF is where did all the salted in the shell peanuts go, it's been a couple of years since I've seen any.
 
The red ones always seemed to have a slightly bitter after taste to me.

My question is why can’t you ever find cashews in the shell?
 
The red ones always seemed to have a slightly bitter after taste to me.

My question is why can’t you ever find cashews in the shell?
Ha, I know this one a buddy spent time in a cashew processing plant. He told me the shell is pretty toxic as is the shells liner or membrane, skin whatever. He said that it will give you a wicked rash at the minimum and can make some pretty damn sick. It's also why they roast them, to burn off any trace of the oil.
 
The shell has similar properties to poison ivy.
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My big WTF is where did all the salted in the shell peanuts go, it's been a couple of years since I've seen any.
There are a few gas stations around here that sell them in 1lb paper bags. And Atwoods (farm store) has them as well.
 
The red ones were from before we stole them from Iran, it was a kind of quality control. Now they are cleaner since they're from here.

The disappearance of red-colored pistachios is a direct result of the exponential increase in homegrown pistachios and the limit on pistachio imports from the Middle East. When the U.S. was importing pistachios, the nut shells would often be splotchy in color, the Kitchn explains. The shells got stained from traditional harvesting methods in which the nuts weren't immediately hulled and washed. Since the appearance of these stains was unappetizing, pistachio producers in the Middle East took to dying the shells bright red to hide the stains, Richard Matoian, Executive Director of the American Pistachio Growers told HuffPost Taste. A few American producers followed suit because the market was used to seeing pistachios with a bright red hue, Matoian said. But all that's over now.
Red pistachios starting disappearing in the '80s, Matoian confirmed. With the limit on imports and the increase of American grown nuts with American harvesting systems, there became no need to dye the nuts. American pistachio producers use a harvesting system that dries and hulls the nuts before they are able to get stained, which eliminates the need for covering up blemishes altogether. Even today in Iran, Matoian explained, pistachio producers have picked up the new harvesting technique that eliminates stains and the subsequent need for dye.

You can still find red pistachios in some places, Matoian told HuffPost Taste, but they're just a rare novelty product and a seasonal one at Christmastime, not the dominant trend they once were.
The upshot of red pistachios being all but obsolete today, thanks to California-produced pistachios, is that you no longer have to worry about dyed hands -- an unfortunate result of the red dye. Pistachios are just a little more boring now

IN 1979, A GROUP OF Iranian college students stormed the American Embassy in Tehran, where they took dozens of hostages. The resulting crisis dominated relations between the two countries, influencing politics for generations. But the tensions proved a boon for American pistachio production. When the American government slapped a retaliatory embargo on Iranian pistachios, California’s nascent pistachio industry exploded, to the point that Iran and the U.S. now are neck and neck for the accolade of the world’s top producer.

From a botanical perspective, this was a remarkable turnaround. Because only half a century earlier, a “plant explorer” named William E. Whitehouse had seeded the entire industry. In what is now considered “the single most successful plant introduction to the United States in the 20th century,” he traveled to Iran and brought back one very important seed.
 
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I hadn't seen them for years and then I came across some recently at a local bulk foods store. IIRC they were a buck a pound more than the others, nope I'll just buy the un dyed ones instead.

My big WTF is where did all the salted in the shell peanuts go, it's been a couple of years since I've seen any.

Saw some at walmart in produce section last time I was there.
 
Ha, I know this one a buddy spent time in a cashew processing plant. He told me the shell is pretty toxic as is the shells liner or membrane, skin whatever. He said that it will give you a wicked rash at the minimum and can make some pretty damn sick. It's also why they roast them, to burn off any trace of the oil.

that doesn`t make any sense, you can literally make cyanide from discarded almond shells and they sell them in the shells
 
Learn something new everyday.

Even if they don't have to dye them they should. They just tasted better.
 
My big WTF is where did all the salted in the shell peanuts go, it's been a couple of years since I've seen any.

These are sold in almost every store around here.
 
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