Takes me back. The Naked Gun | Red pistachios scene
I don't know the reason why.
Submitted 2 months ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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digger@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 months 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 months 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 2 months ago
Care to tke dinghy, Frank? No, I took care of that at the press conference.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 months ago
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.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Was this a regional thing? In my memory, they were all dyed green.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
US defaultism
BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nope. I’ve seen them in other countries.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ate them in Canada for many years, am not American.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 exporter your region mainly used.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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 2 months ago
oascany@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 months ago
It’s a 7
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
On my phone at least I don’t see a number
Janx@piefed.social 2 months ago
IT’S PIKACHU!
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
- Is that good? Did i get it right?
kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s OK I ain’t seen em either
korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 2 months ago
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 2 months 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 2 months ago
They tasted better this way. I wish they could bring this pistachio back from extinction.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
They still exist. They’re just from Iran.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You could always add red food coloring if you have some old bottles from before they took out the toxic
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m 34 and have never heard of these.
otter@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Fun fact, the ketchup chips in Canada were inspired by these
Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Where did you get that from?
otter@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I should have included the tag, I made it up 😄
sheridan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Was pistachio ice cream also red?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No, pistachio flavored ice cream and puddings and such have always been green.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Good question, no and it confused me as a child in the 60s
jambudz@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
32, American, never seen a red pistachio
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
this is only a Nauru thing.
m3t00@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yet pistachio ice cream has always been green…
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
I see, so that’s why they have never been red outside the US
Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ok that makes sense because I (a 30+ yo canadian) was so confused.
Zexks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes it has and currently is
bulkbarn.ca/…/Mediterranean-Red-Pistachios-Dry-Ro…
Youre all just looking to hate on someone
Armand1@lemmy.world 2 months 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.”
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 2 months 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.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 months 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.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
ajikeshi@lemmy.world 2 months 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)
Pirat@lemmy.org 2 months 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.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2 months ago
So is a US defaultism kinda thing huh
Starski@lemmy.zip 2 months 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.
rainwall@piefed.social 2 months 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.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 months 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?
SweepTheLeg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At least they use natural ingredients to make it yellow and not red #5.
axexrx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was less about hiding rot, and more about making it appear to have a higher fat content.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 months ago
In the same vein… Maraschino cherries aren’t red, they are golden.
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sploosh@lemmy.world 2 months 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).
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Yeah, they should’ve used green dye that gives us cancer, that way they at least have their natural colour.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months 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
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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.