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I was in Costa Rica recently and a tour guide pulled a fruit about the size of my fist from a tree. He quizzed us on what the top of the fruit was. We could not identify it. We ended up feeding it to a cow.

It was a single cashew.

That experience changed my perception of supply chain, you can buy thousands of those for very low price. The fruit is huge and you get just one nut!

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Was he wearing gloves ? I understand the cashew fruit is kinda gnarly to work with. But you can make a liqueur from it: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feni_(liquor)

The fruit itself is not too bad as long as you can avoid touching the saps residue on the base of the fruit. We had a cashew tree when I was growing up. We usually eat the fruit as a spicy fruit salad (mixed with other tropical fruits). One day, my dad decided to harvest the dried cashew nuts he's been collecting, cracked them open with a machete. Took a while to crack them all and we did get some tasty nuts, but he didn't wear a glove while doing it so the skin on his palms were peeling. The dried shells basically contains concentrated sap which is really bad to your skin. Several months later we no longer have a cashew tree :)

I think cashew nuts are the strongest proof that we must be living in a simulation.

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