I see, so that’s why they have never been red outside the US
Comment on I don't know the reason why.
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 1 day ago
IF you’re actually curios, 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 1 day ago
Zexks@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yes it has and currently is
bulkbarn.ca/…/Mediterranean-Red-Pistachios-Dry-Ro…
Youre all just looking to hate on someone
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 minutes ago
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.
athatet@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I don’t think that someone not having seen a thing means that they hate it.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ok that makes sense because I (a 30+ yo canadian) was so confused.
Zexks@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Youre not paying attention like most in here. Or are just looking for another reason to hate on “the others”
bulkbarn.ca/…/Mediterranean-Red-Pistachios-Dry-Ro…
Red pistacios still available in canada right now
Banana@sh.itjust.works 53 minutes ago
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 1 hour ago
I don’t think that someone not having seen a thing means that they hate it.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s also about ten years out of date, 25 year olds today probably wouldn’t recognize this
SweepTheLeg@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’m 47 and have never seen this. I only remember pistachios in ice cream but they werent fucking red.
Armand1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wait, this is real? I thought this was a joke…
Like “Back in my day, bananas were bright purple, but that breed died out.”
skisnow@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
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.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 1 day ago
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 1 day ago
We over-60s remember when pistachios were red, airplane security was non-existent and everywhere smelled like cigarettes.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
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.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
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 1 day ago
Now smoking is much more financially responsible than eating pistachios
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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.
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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 1 day ago
Because most banana varieties aren’t very transport stable.
ajikeshi@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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)
chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
rainwall@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Similiar reason cheddar is orange. Cheesemakere used to die it to cover inconsistences in quality or rot.
At this point, cheddar is almost perfectly safe, but people expect it to be orange, so its orange.
SweepTheLeg@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
At least they use natural ingredients to make it yellow and not red #5.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 12 hours ago
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 9 hours ago
Pale yellow. To make it orange cheddar they just add annatto for coloring.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 16 hours ago
sploosh@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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).
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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 11 hours ago
Yeah, they should’ve used green dye that gives us cancer, that way they at least have their natural colour.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 13 hours ago
So is a US defaultism kinda thing huh
Starski@lemmy.zip 34 minutes ago
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 19 minutes ago
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”