Cashew harvesting is eye-poppingly horrible work btw. great nut (drupe), just one of those things where your jaw drops a little more with each successive fact you learn about how it got to you - ThreadSky

proptermalone.bsky.social • 45 days ago

Cashew harvesting is eye-poppingly horrible work btw.

great nut (drupe), just one of those things where your jaw drops a little more with each successive fact you learn about how it got to you

Reposted from lauren

i am forming a coalition of enlightened cashew enjoyers and with careful time and attention i think we can become an effective force for lobbying against Big Almond

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thebrett.bsky.social•45 days ago

I've heard the cashew fruit is good (same for juice from it). I wonder why we rarely see those for sale along with the nuts.

breadhiking.com•45 days ago

I had it once... Maybe the one I had wasn't good? But it just tastes like tropical fruit 75% of the way to booze

proptermalone.bsky.social•45 days ago

I would describe it as an acquired taste. very astringent

fidelioscabinet.bsky.social•45 days ago

Makes an interesting liquor.

aremay.bsky.social•45 days ago

I have just looked this up and, bloody nora

sporkredfox.bsky.social•45 days ago

Wait what, why?

proptermalone.bsky.social•45 days ago

like everything about the cashew apple tree is extremely toxic except the cashew

unchi.org•45 days ago

I did not know what was involved in harvesting cashews, but in reading about it I got as far as "urushiol" and my eyes almost popped out of my head

sirjuncan.bsky.social•45 days ago

The nutshell is bad for your skin but the fruity part is pretty good. The rest is standard tree stuff afaik.

Amazing username btw

dhpljm266.bsky.social•45 days ago

It sounds like the poisonous oil that can be pressed out of the husks has a lot of value for industrial chemistry.

Spreading automatic husking machines, esp in W Africa seems like a big goal.

proptermalone.bsky.social•45 days ago

we’re talking “smoke from when we burn the waste that we absolutely can’t put anywhere someone might touch it is going to fuck up people miles away” toxic

sporkredfox.bsky.social•45 days ago

Gotcha. I am also seeing sourcing climate which involves "places that have historically not always had strong rule of law protections" which... slavery. That's a recipe for companies to do slavery...

sporkredfox.bsky.social•45 days ago

I use cashews a lot because there's very little alt cream subs. I guess maybe i will try to look at sourcing next time I buy.

smullins3000.bsky.social•45 days ago

Holy crap.

proptermalone.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yeah the liquid is sufficiently concentrated and harvestable around the nut that it has industrial applications

pogtastic.bsky.social•45 days ago

Of course prison administrators took one look at the chemical burn pictures and said "this is fantastic"

what the fuck

thefred.bsky.social•45 days ago

Five minutes of recreational strawberry picking, which I did not support, created an opportunity for me to educate the family on the history of Cesar Chavez.

proptermalone.bsky.social•45 days ago

I have a fairly strict personal policy against posting images of chemical burns and I would appreciate if other people didn’t do that either itt

kygosi.bsky.social•45 days ago

2025 just finding new ways to reveal the abyss to me

darylsng.com•45 days ago

Even the picture of what a cashew looks like often befuddles people

jaymarose.bsky.social•45 days ago

Big Almond = Lynda Resnick
While I like Lynda personally on the few times we met & appreciate her part in the pentagon papers…

Shes brought us a few hits (pomegranate juice) and a few misses (Faye) but enough is enough.

Inheritance tax now! No more juniors!

neotiamat99.bsky.social•45 days ago

I legit feel like there are certain plants that we should just... not bother with. Like, yes, they are tasty, but they are not worth this either in terms of human rights or climate impact.

proptermalone.bsky.social•45 days ago

I don’t really have an opinion on whether it’s worth it, just: my default guess on the hostility of the cashew would have been none

sporkredfox.bsky.social•45 days ago

My default on this stuff is often "we should have regulations to make sure laborers and consumers are protected"
But idk