IF you're actually curious, it was because we used to import them, and the importers would dye them red due to discoloration in how they were harvested. Domestic production ramped up in the US and since pistachios didn't have to travel as far, and because modern harvesting was more mechanized. It was easier to wash, dry, roast and salt them in a shorter time period avoiding the discoloration that required the dye in the first place.
Pistachio ice cream was never red afaik, just the plain/salted nuts in shell. They also used to be way more expensive, so I only remember seeing them a couple times. I mostly just remember the color of my fingers after eating them.
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Might still be a (North) America thing. All I know is that I'm over 30 and I have never seen red pistaccios in Germany. I remember that as a kid, I didn't like them but my brothers did and I'm pretty sure, I would remember if they were red. Sorry for spreading all the hate.
I also figured this was just a "let's screw with the youth"-type post. We used to eat pistachios all the time when I was a kid (I'm 35) and I don't think I've ever seen a red one before today. They were always beige/greenish.
Where? In EU and Australia at least tobacco is taxed to high heaven and costs like 10+ western money units (take whichever, dollar or euro, still roughly applies) a pack/pouch
I pay 14.30€ for a 30g pouch of rolling tobacco. And it's probably more expensive the next time I buy because the pack before that was 13.50€. There's a few price-hikes every year.
I'm in the US but it varies state to state. Some states are dirt cheap while others are insanely high. Probably 8 to 10 dollars a pack on average around me
Oh well, it's still a bit cheaper than here, relatively.
But I remberer lots of people saying how they were gonna quit once packs hit 5€. And at the time it felt like something crazy that would never happen, and packs cost like 3 or at most 4€ then.
I mean yeah, I don't consume as much cigarettes nowadays, in fact none, but am still a smoker as I don't like smoking weed without tobacco, but I also don't like smoking tobacco without weed.
My opinion is just that vice taxes are shit, because while there might be an argument made, it disproportionately affects people of different income. What's a pack of ciggies tripling their price to someone with high and stable income? Nothing. What is it to the lowest classes? With minimum wage back in idk say 2005 you only needed to work like 15-20min to earn enough for ciggies, now it's definitely more than an hour. And that's not counting income taxation etc, just from gross pay.
Yeah, I'm 38 and remember red pistachios. Also remember finding some sort of worm thing burrowed into one of those red pistachios, while I was sitting at my grandfather's kitchen table eating pistachios. Didn't stop me. Well, it stopped me from eating that one. But I'm always leery if a pistachio has a hole in it.
It's absolutely real; there's a joke about it in The Naked Gun.
It's not that there used to be a red variety of pistashio, they were sold coated in this oily red gunk that would stain your fingers pink. That stopped at some point in the late 90's early 2000s.
Presumably at their request, or at least their approval, since it doesn’t seem to be a thing in any other country. Most products in the US are imported, don’t pass the buck. “Iran forced it on us” goes against absolutely everything else we know about US consumers.
There are bananas that are dark red to dark purple, those varieties barely get imported to the US. For some reason the import market is 1-variety-of-bananas-at-a-time-until-it-goes-extinct.
Nope. It's real. I was actually thinking about this the other day and just "wondered". Probably got busy with work and forgot to Google it and then this. I remembered them being red when I was a kid. Now I know why.
and even the "original banana-flavour"-banana is still around, the kind is called "grand michel" and can still be bought, but is no longer suitable for mass farming (due to some fungi/bacteria vulnerability)
There are still some dark purple bananas out there. They are usually less than 1/2 the size of a normal (cavendish?) banana. They don't taste as good to me but many people love them.
I hate this idea of "us defaultism" being labeled on anything that even remotely involves the US. This isnt us defaultism, this is someone from the US sharing something about the US worded to be for someone for the US. I see this numerous different times with different topics for different countries, but I don't go "oh this is German defaultism, oh this is Zimbabwean defaultism." It's a fun fact that you're taking too seriously because you have a hate boner for the US, which is honestly fair.
I world disagree because vast majority of the posts from different countries are labeled so (e.g. “In Germany, we had so and so”). Posts from US are almost never labeled so, hence the “defaultism”
Those are cherries that are not yet Marachino. Light-colored cherries are used because the darker ones don't bleach enough to look good with the dye they use. Maraschino cherries are whatever color they are dyed with (usually red).
So if in the 80s I lived in an area that didn't import them already, say, Fresno, the joke would go over my head? Because I sure as hell don't remember red pistachios
Well howdy neighbor! I grew up a few (not gonna say the amount) miles north of you. If you're in your mid 40s we might have competed against each other in sports/music/&c. growing up.
Excellent food and a good cultural mix of people. Melting pot of America for sure. Awful heat though. I left there years ago. Though I return to visit old friends.
I know it's common for actors to not really eat when filming a scene in which the character is eating but it almost adds to the joke that we never really see them eating the pistachios. They're just fidgeting with the bags and chewing on nothing.
Warwick Davis (best known for his roles as Wicket the Ewok or Willow) told this story from when he was an extra at the pod race in Star Wars Episode 1.
He had an awesome looking cocktail and he made the fatal mistake of taking three large sips in the first take. And of course he had to repeat that action every take. And they had to do many takes. Trouble was (apart from the enormous amount of liquid) that the cocktail tasted absolutely awful. But as a professional he stuck to his role of course.
Those takes never made it into the movie. They aren't even available as cut scenes or still photos.
The shell of the pistachio is naturally a beige color, but it may be dyed red or green in commercial pistachios. Originally, dye was applied to hide stains on the shells caused when the nuts were picked by hand.[51] In the 21st century, most pistachios are harvested by machine and the shells remain unstained.[51]
Wikipedia
Well now I'm wondering what those stains were. Did they dye them red because the people picking them had their hands bleeding? We were all just ingesting small amounts of laborer's blood?
Yes, but as technique improved, there was less blood introduced on average and the pistachios would not be evenly coloured. To preserve the impression of quality, the farms then adopted the policy of wringing the worst performing worker of each batch of their blood to cover the batch in red homogeneously. This motivated improved performance batch on batch (less blood) and eventually, two workers had to be wrung, and at some point the remaining workers got so good that no blood was introduced and a drastic policy change had to take place.
I'm 31 and I've never in my life seen red pistachios in the UK and I've been eating them all my life. What kind of fuck-ass pistachios did you Americans get wtf?
When I was a kiddo in the 80s, pistachios and other shelled nuts were commonly a winter holiday thing and I rarely ate whole nuts otherwise. I think peanuts, almonds and cashews are the exceptions, but they were almost always without shell. It's been a few decades, but I remember having red and green (default, I guess, but maybe dyed green as well?) pistachios at Christmas and having to fight with the shells to get them out. They were the tastiest and I didn't care much for walnuts, chestnuts or pecans.
Searching about 'red pistachios' also suggests it was a way to hide lower quality nuts. I'm not fully convinced about that, though, because I remember red dyed things tasting terrible as a kid. I don't think most modern red food coloring tastes bad, but it used to. The amount of dye that made it on to the edible portion may not have affected the nut's flavor too much, though.
All that to say: It could have been a marketing gimmick?
We used to get the red ones around Christmas. I just thought they were decorative for the holidays, like Hersey's kisses changed to Christmas color wrapping
Red-dyed ones were all over the middle east when I was a kid, but I've never once seen them in the US sold this way. I think it just depended on what exporterimporter your region mainly used.
The Red Pistachio mold plague spread with surprising speed. Horticulturalists were caught flatfooted, but pulled a rabbit out of their hat with the current strain of green pistachios, saving the sector. It was quite a wild ride.
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in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social · 268 pts · 185d
IF you're actually curious, it was because we used to import them, and the importers would dye them red due to discoloration in how they were harvested. Domestic production ramped up in the US and since pistachios didn't have to travel as far, and because modern harvesting was more mechanized. It was easier to wash, dry, roast and salt them in a shorter time period avoiding the discoloration that required the dye in the first place.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 84 pts · 185d
I see, so that's why they have never been red outside the US
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 185d
Ok that makes sense because I (a 30+ yo canadian) was so confused.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 185d
It’s also about ten years out of date, 25 year olds today probably wouldn’t recognize this
SweepTheLeg@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 184d
I'm 47 and have never seen this. I only remember pistachios in ice cream but they werent fucking red.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 184d
Pistachio ice cream was never red afaik, just the plain/salted nuts in shell. They also used to be way more expensive, so I only remember seeing them a couple times. I mostly just remember the color of my fingers after eating them.
Zexks@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 184d
Youre not paying attention like most in here. Or are just looking for another reason to hate on "the others"
https://www.bulkbarn.ca/en/Products/All/Mediterranean-Red-Pistachios-Dry-Roasted-and-Salt
Red pistacios still available in canada right now
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 184d
What? Where was the indication of hate? I said I was confused. Last time I checked it's not a moral failing to be confused.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 184d
I don’t think that someone not having seen a thing means that they hate it.
Zexks@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 184d
Yes it has and currently is
https://www.bulkbarn.ca/en/Products/All/Mediterranean-Red-Pistachios-Dry-Roasted-and-Salt
Youre all just looking to hate on someone
athatet@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 184d
I don’t think that someone not having seen a thing means that they hate it.
Zexks@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 179d
Its not the pistacios they were hating on
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 184d
I'm blocked for some reason and can't access the page.
Might still be a (North) America thing. All I know is that I'm over 30 and I have never seen red pistaccios in Germany. I remember that as a kid, I didn't like them but my brothers did and I'm pretty sure, I would remember if they were red. Sorry for spreading all the hate.
Armand1@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 185d
Wait, this is real? I thought this was a joke...
Like "Back in my day, bananas were bright purple, but that breed died out."
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio · 34 pts · 185d
I also figured this was just a "let's screw with the youth"-type post. We used to eat pistachios all the time when I was a kid (I'm 35) and I don't think I've ever seen a red one before today. They were always beige/greenish.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 185d
We over-60s remember when pistachios were red, airplane security was non-existent and everywhere smelled like cigarettes.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 185d
Hey, I'm not even 40 and I remember getting to check out the cockpit of a plane multiple times. And the brown glass ashtrays at McDonalds.
Drusas@fedia.io · 6 pts · 184d
I'm two decades younger and remember all that except red pistachios. And my family used to eat a lot of pistachios.
myrrh@ttrpg.network · 1 pts · 184d
Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 183d
I remember all of that except red pistachios as well.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 185d
I'm also 35, and I remember the red ones. But my mom ate a lot of pistachios and sunflower seeds when she quit smoking in the mid 90s
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 185d
Now smoking is much more financially responsible than eating pistachios
Dasus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
Where? In EU and Australia at least tobacco is taxed to high heaven and costs like 10+ western money units (take whichever, dollar or euro, still roughly applies) a pack/pouch
I pay 14.30€ for a 30g pouch of rolling tobacco. And it's probably more expensive the next time I buy because the pack before that was 13.50€. There's a few price-hikes every year.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 184d
I'm in the US but it varies state to state. Some states are dirt cheap while others are insanely high. Probably 8 to 10 dollars a pack on average around me
Dasus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
Oh well, it's still a bit cheaper than here, relatively.
But I remberer lots of people saying how they were gonna quit once packs hit 5€. And at the time it felt like something crazy that would never happen, and packs cost like 3 or at most 4€ then.
I mean yeah, I don't consume as much cigarettes nowadays, in fact none, but am still a smoker as I don't like smoking weed without tobacco, but I also don't like smoking tobacco without weed.
My opinion is just that vice taxes are shit, because while there might be an argument made, it disproportionately affects people of different income. What's a pack of ciggies tripling their price to someone with high and stable income? Nothing. What is it to the lowest classes? With minimum wage back in idk say 2005 you only needed to work like 15-20min to earn enough for ciggies, now it's definitely more than an hour. And that's not counting income taxation etc, just from gross pay.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 185d
Yeah, I'm 38 and remember red pistachios. Also remember finding some sort of worm thing burrowed into one of those red pistachios, while I was sitting at my grandfather's kitchen table eating pistachios. Didn't stop me. Well, it stopped me from eating that one. But I'm always leery if a pistachio has a hole in it.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 185d
Don't sleep on the extra protein, bro!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 184d
It's chew into your brain and make you Secretary of Health, bro!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 185d
It's absolutely real; there's a joke about it in The Naked Gun.
It's not that there used to be a red variety of pistashio, they were sold coated in this oily red gunk that would stain your fingers pink. That stopped at some point in the late 90's early 2000s.
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 184d
I also thought this was a joke until I read the comments. Pistachios have always been pistachio coloured in the rest of the world.
There's something very American about drowning a perfectly healthy natural product in brightly coloured dye.
Drusas@fedia.io · 13 pts · 184d
Iran died them before export. Not Americans.
Kacarott@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 184d
Know your customer
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 184d
Presumably at their request, or at least their approval, since it doesn’t seem to be a thing in any other country. Most products in the US are imported, don’t pass the buck. “Iran forced it on us” goes against absolutely everything else we know about US consumers.
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 185d
There are bananas that are dark red to dark purple, those varieties barely get imported to the US. For some reason the import market is 1-variety-of-bananas-at-a-time-until-it-goes-extinct.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 185d
Because most banana varieties aren't very transport stable.
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 185d
The real answer is that yes, they were red, but no it wasn't because they were poor quality.
It's because the world's largest exporter was Iran, and Iran had a blanket policy of dying their pistachios red.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 184d
Nope. It's real. I was actually thinking about this the other day and just "wondered". Probably got busy with work and forgot to Google it and then this. I remembered them being red when I was a kid. Now I know why.
ajikeshi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 184d
many different kinds of bananas and plantains
and even the "original banana-flavour"-banana is still around, the kind is called "grand michel" and can still be bought, but is no longer suitable for mass farming (due to some fungi/bacteria vulnerability)
Pirat@lemmy.org · 4 pts · 185d
There are still some dark purple bananas out there. They are usually less than 1/2 the size of a normal (cavendish?) banana. They don't taste as good to me but many people love them.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl · 44 pts · 184d
So is a US defaultism kinda thing huh
Starski@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 184d
I hate this idea of "us defaultism" being labeled on anything that even remotely involves the US. This isnt us defaultism, this is someone from the US sharing something about the US worded to be for someone for the US. I see this numerous different times with different topics for different countries, but I don't go "oh this is German defaultism, oh this is Zimbabwean defaultism." It's a fun fact that you're taking too seriously because you have a hate boner for the US, which is honestly fair.
flyby@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 184d
I world disagree because vast majority of the posts from different countries are labeled so (e.g. “In Germany, we had so and so”). Posts from US are almost never labeled so, hence the “defaultism”
Redacted@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 183d
Okay but the guy at the start of this comment chain literally did label it
topsecret@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 180d
But the post didn't, which is what I think is being referred to here
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl · 1 pts · 184d
That person assumed everyone would be from the US, wich is not true, hence defaultism.
rainwall@piefed.social · 18 pts · 184d
Similiar reason cheddar is orange. Cheesemakers used to die it to cover inconsistences in quality or rot.
At this point, cheddar is almost perfectly homogenous, but people expect it to be orange, so its orange.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 184d
What is it's natural color? I know there is a white cheddar. Is that just undyed cheddar or is it a different variety?
JillSteinsPuckeredAnus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 184d
Pale yellow. To make it orange cheddar they just add annatto for coloring.
SweepTheLeg@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 184d
At least they use natural ingredients to make it yellow and not red #5.
axexrx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
It was less about hiding rot, and more about making it appear to have a higher fat content.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 16 pts · 184d
In the same vein... Maraschino cherries aren't red, they are golden.
sploosh@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 184d
Those are cherries that are not yet Marachino. Light-colored cherries are used because the darker ones don't bleach enough to look good with the dye they use. Maraschino cherries are whatever color they are dyed with (usually red).
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 185d
So instead of dying them back to green they chose to make them unholy abominations made with red dye that is known to give cancer? Cool.
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 184d
Yeah, they should've used green dye that gives us cancer, that way they at least have their natural colour.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 184d
So if in the 80s I lived in an area that didn't import them already, say, Fresno, the joke would go over my head? Because I sure as hell don't remember red pistachios
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 184d
Holy shit you are pinning my exact experience. I grew up in Fresno CA and have never even seen a red pistachio in my life.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
Well howdy neighbor! I grew up a few (not gonna say the amount) miles north of you. If you're in your mid 40s we might have competed against each other in sports/music/&c. growing up.
Beautiful area, great food, no?
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 183d
Excellent food and a good cultural mix of people. Melting pot of America for sure. Awful heat though. I left there years ago. Though I return to visit old friends.
digger@lemmy.ca · 73 pts · 185d
Takes me back. The Naked Gun | Red pistachios scene
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 185d
I know it's common for actors to not really eat when filming a scene in which the character is eating but it almost adds to the joke that we never really see them eating the pistachios. They're just fidgeting with the bags and chewing on nothing.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 20 pts · 185d
Warwick Davis (best known for his roles as Wicket the Ewok or Willow) told this story from when he was an extra at the pod race in Star Wars Episode 1.
He had an awesome looking cocktail and he made the fatal mistake of taking three large sips in the first take. And of course he had to repeat that action every take. And they had to do many takes. Trouble was (apart from the enormous amount of liquid) that the cocktail tasted absolutely awful. But as a professional he stuck to his role of course.
Those takes never made it into the movie. They aren't even available as cut scenes or still photos.
br0da@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 185d
Care to tke dinghy, Frank? No, I took care of that at the press conference.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 1 pts · 183d
I've been watching that movie for 20 years and I had never understood what he was eating and why he had red lips.
Turns out pistachios used to be dyed in the US.
Zier@fedia.io · 53 pts · 185d
The shell of the pistachio is naturally a beige color, but it may be dyed red or green in commercial pistachios. Originally, dye was applied to hide stains on the shells caused when the nuts were picked by hand.[51] In the 21st century, most pistachios are harvested by machine and the shells remain unstained.[51] Wikipedia
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 185d
Well now I'm wondering what those stains were. Did they dye them red because the people picking them had their hands bleeding? We were all just ingesting small amounts of laborer's blood?
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz · 12 pts · 185d
Another commenter said it was the oil on people's hands
quantumcrop@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 185d
Blood oxidizes to a dark brown/black pretty quickly so a red dye wouldn't really hide it.
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 184d
Yes, but as technique improved, there was less blood introduced on average and the pistachios would not be evenly coloured. To preserve the impression of quality, the farms then adopted the policy of wringing the worst performing worker of each batch of their blood to cover the batch in red homogeneously. This motivated improved performance batch on batch (less blood) and eventually, two workers had to be wrung, and at some point the remaining workers got so good that no blood was introduced and a drastic policy change had to take place.
That or automation.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 184d
They really should do an episode or How It's Made on this. Super fascinating!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 184d
I found this great place that dyes it with garlic
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 29 pts · 185d
Was this a regional thing? In my memory, they were all dyed green.
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 185d
Pistachios are native to Iran, and until the 1970s Iran was the world's largest exporter. They dyed their exports with a food safe red.
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 185d
They were dyed because they were hand picked and oils from the pickers hand would cause discoloration. The red dye covered that up.
Machine harvested pistachios didn't have that problem.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 184d
I'm 31 and I've never in my life seen red pistachios in the UK and I've been eating them all my life. What kind of fuck-ass pistachios did you Americans get wtf?
Agent641@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 184d
Hey bud I've got some bad news for you.
What number do you see in this circle?
oascany@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 184d
I'm pretty sure this is a prank because I've gotten tested for colourblindness, but this is a hilarious prank.
jambudz@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 183d
It’s a 7
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 184d
On my phone at least I don't see a number
Janx@piefed.social · 1 pts · 180d
IT'S PIKACHU!
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 184d
kalpol@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 183d
It's OK I ain't seen em either
korazail@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 184d
When I was a kiddo in the 80s, pistachios and other shelled nuts were commonly a winter holiday thing and I rarely ate whole nuts otherwise. I think peanuts, almonds and cashews are the exceptions, but they were almost always without shell. It's been a few decades, but I remember having red and green (default, I guess, but maybe dyed green as well?) pistachios at Christmas and having to fight with the shells to get them out. They were the tastiest and I didn't care much for walnuts, chestnuts or pecans.
Searching about 'red pistachios' also suggests it was a way to hide lower quality nuts. I'm not fully convinced about that, though, because I remember red dyed things tasting terrible as a kid. I don't think most modern red food coloring tastes bad, but it used to. The amount of dye that made it on to the edible portion may not have affected the nut's flavor too much, though.
All that to say: It could have been a marketing gimmick?
agingelderly@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 185d
We used to get the red ones around Christmas. I just thought they were decorative for the holidays, like Hersey's kisses changed to Christmas color wrapping
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 184d
US defaultism
this is mostly a US thing
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 183d
Nope. I've seen them in other countries.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 183d
Ate them in Canada for many years, am not American.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 183d
Red-dyed ones were all over the middle east when I was a kid, but I've never once seen them in the US sold this way. I think it just depended on what
exporterimporter your region mainly used.mika_mika@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 185d
They tasted better this way. I wish they could bring this pistachio back from extinction.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 185d
The Red Pistachio mold plague spread with surprising speed. Horticulturalists were caught flatfooted, but pulled a rabbit out of their hat with the current strain of green pistachios, saving the sector. It was quite a wild ride.
I guess you had to be there.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 185d
Pistachio Green!
gdog05@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 185d
Say what you will about becoming Pistachio Green, but it's one of the few jobs that didn't require you to use AI.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 2 pts · 185d
They still exist. They're just from Iran.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 185d
You could always add red food coloring if you have some old bottles from before they took out the toxic
otter@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 185d
Fun fact, the ketchup chips in Canada were inspired by these
/s
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 185d
Where did you get that from?
MetalSlugX@piefed.social · 9 pts · 185d
His ass
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 185d
Lmfao
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 184d
don't default to "he", say "they"
otter@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 185d
I should have included the tag, I made it up 😄
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 184d
I'm 34 and have never heard of these.
sheridan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 185d
Was pistachio ice cream also red?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 185d
No, pistachio flavored ice cream and puddings and such have always been green.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 185d
Good question, no and it confused me as a child in the 60s
jambudz@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 183d
32, American, never seen a red pistachio
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 184d
this is only a Posnia thing.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 184d
Yet pistachio ice cream has always been green...
m3t00@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 183d
red story; https://www.thespruceeats.com/red-pistachios-overview-1807049
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 184d