Takes me back. The Naked Gun | Red pistachios scene
I don't know the reason why.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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digger@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Care to tke dinghy, Frank? No, I took care of that at the press conference.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Was this a regional thing? In my memory, they were all dyed green.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
US defaultism
BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nope. I’ve seen them in other countries.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ate them in Canada for many years, am not American.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
oascany@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
It’s a 7
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
On my phone at least I don’t see a number
Janx@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
IT’S PIKACHU!
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
- Is that good? Did i get it right?
kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s OK I ain’t seen em either
korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
They tasted better this way. I wish they could bring this pistachio back from extinction.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
They still exist. They’re just from Iran.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
I’m 34 and have never heard of these.
otter@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Fun fact, the ketchup chips in Canada were inspired by these
Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Where did you get that from?
otter@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I should have included the tag, I made it up 😄
sheridan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Was pistachio ice cream also red?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
No, pistachio flavored ice cream and puddings and such have always been green.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Good question, no and it confused me as a child in the 60s
jambudz@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
32, American, never seen a red pistachio
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
this is only a Nauru thing.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yet pistachio ice cream has always been green…
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
I see, so that’s why they have never been red outside the US
Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ok that makes sense because I (a 30+ yo canadian) was so confused.
Zexks@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
So is a US defaultism kinda thing huh
Starski@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
At least they use natural ingredients to make it yellow and not red #5.
axexrx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was less about hiding rot, and more about making it appear to have a higher fat content.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
In the same vein… Maraschino cherries aren’t red, they are golden.
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sploosh@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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.