Why are cashews so fucking expensive?

[libnnc]

It's a nut for Pete's sake...:eyes:

$7.15 for 16 ounces?!?

[XemaSab]

1. .

[libnnc]

2. uh-oh, have I started something?

:scared:

[XemaSab]

6. I dunno. Have you?

[flvegan]

3. Well, 16 ounces of nut

brings a hefty payout at the sperm bank for the right candidate.

Okay, that was wrong. It's late. I plead...uh...stupidity?

[libnnc]

7. eeeeww....that's just wrong...I'm a lesbian...be gentle...

:puke:

[libodem]

4. and so darned good.

[Robeson]

5. Switch to pistachios. They're cheaper, and oh so good....

...:9

[ET Awful]

8. Why do you think they call them CASHews? If they were cheap they'd

cheapews or just ews :P

[hyphenate]

9. Probably because of the process involved

with making them edible. Cashews are one of the very few nuts that could potentially make you very ill. If you see most other nuts, most of them have either that "skin" over them or are sold in their shell. The "skin" of a cashew is poisonous, and they have to make sure that when they are packed for distribution that the skins are completely and totally removed before they can be packaged.

See here for a great article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew

[Squeech]

10. I found out

that the nut part grows at the bottom of this pulpy fruit, and the Brazilians drink the juice of that fruit-- it's sort of like peach or banana juice, with this undertone of the flavor of the nut. How do they avoid the poison?

[Blue-Jay]

11. A cashew is a seed, not a nut.

[Deja Q]

12. Probably grown in some "exotic" location...

e.g. a hydroponic center some place... and the costs to breed the nuts is high.

And Hawaii or whichever country can do it naturally just can't make enough nuts on its own.

[Catshrink]

13. And the price of pecans is way up...

I bake with them and use them in my cereal.... I switched to walnuts for now. I sure do miss my pecans!

[Hand]

14. Insh'Allah... nt