Takes me back. The Naked Gun | Red pistachios scene
I don't know the reason why.
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digger@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
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 2 hours ago
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 7 hours ago
Care to tke dinghy, Frank? No, I took care of that at the press conference.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
Was this a regional thing? In my memory, they were all dyed green.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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 3 hours ago
They were died 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.
agingelderly@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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
mika_mika@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They tasted better this way. I wish they could bring this pistachio back from extinction.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 4 hours ago
They still exist. They’re just from Iran.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
You could always add red food coloring if you have some old bottles from before they took out the toxic
sheridan@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Was pistachio ice cream also red?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
No, pistachio flavored ice cream and puddings and such have always been green.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Good question, no and it confused me as a child in the 60s
otter@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Fun fact, the ketchup chips in Canada were inspired by these
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 8 hours 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 7 hours ago
I see, so that’s why they have never been red outside the US
Banana@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Ok that makes sense because I (a 30+ yo canadian) was so confused.
Armand1@lemmy.world 6 hours 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.”
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 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.
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 5 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.
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 3 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.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 4 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.