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• skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨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.

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• GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • 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

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    • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Now smoking is much more financially responsible than eating pistachios

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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      • bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Don’t sleep on the extra protein, bro!

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• 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.

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• ajikeshi@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨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)

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• 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.

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  • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because most banana varieties aren’t very transport stable.

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• 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.

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