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• rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Now smoking is much more financially responsible than eating pistachios

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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      • bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Don’t sleep on the extra protein, bro!

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• Pirat@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because most banana varieties aren’t very transport stable.

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• chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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