One thing that few people seem to know about cashews: the "nut" is actually the seed of a fruit, the cashew apple, and it's delicious. Unfortunately it's extremely perishable and can only be found near places where cashews grow.

I grew up in northern Brazil and would get them from straight from the trees when the season came.

Here's what it looks like: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Ca...

I sometimes wonder how much it'd cost to get a couple of fresh cashew fruits shipped by plane to San Francisco. It'd be willing to pay up to $100 for this treat - anyone knows if this is something easily done? Or would it be too complicated to get fresh and extremely perishable produce past customs?