I eat mostly everything. I enjoy trying new foods and different cultures diets. Most everyone I work with knows this. I'm often given some 'rare' goodies from time to time. IE: A buddy of mine brought me some 'jack fruit' from India. I'm glad he ate it with me, because I kept eating the wrong part of the flesh (the parts you don't eat looked a lot like the parts you eat to me).
Another co-worker gave me a cashew fruit. I had no idea that there is a pear like fruit that grows above a cashew nut. He's from Nicaragua and we've often talked about the foods he misses from his childhood. Well, low and behold his wife found some REAL cashew fruits (frozen, but legit). He brought me one in a bag and it still had the nut attached to the bottom of it. I tried eating the fruit (it was odd, but I've since learned that some people just chew it and suck out the juice, then spit out the 'pulp'). I messed around a bit and tried slicing it up, etc... When I was done, I tried biting the shell off of the nut (it was a soft shell (maybe because it was frozen?)). That didn't work too well, so I cut into the shell all the way around and was able to split it open. I couldn't really pop out the nut (it was kinda soft) so, I tried biting it out of the shell with little success. So, I cut into it with the knife and ate a little bit. It really wasn't good and I chalked it up as maybe being spoiled.
My lip and mouth started tingling / burning a little while later. I rinsed off / out my mouth and finished working on my daughters car. Coming inside about 1/2 hour later, it wasn't feeling much better. I looked at my lip / mouth in the mirror and it looked normal (not red or swollen like I had expected it to be). So, I chalked it up to me possibly being allergic to raw cashew nuts. I heated up and ate the pastelon he gave me (a banana / meat dish) and felt a little better but still had a tingling in my mouth.
I finally sat down in front of my PC and decided to google 'raw cashew po'... That was all I needed, auto complete filled in the 'poisonous' part for me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew
Ok, so I'm guessing that the small part of the raw nut I ate isn't enough to kill me. I'm guessing that reason my mouth was bothering me so much is the Poison Ivy type substance in the shell of the nut that I tried biting off. Well, the tingling / burning has mostly subsided (about 3 hours later) and I'm off to bed. I figured I'd drop a line here and ask how many people have ever hear of such a thing as this?
http://www.wisegeek.org/are-raw-cashews-really-poisonous.htm
Another co-worker gave me a cashew fruit. I had no idea that there is a pear like fruit that grows above a cashew nut. He's from Nicaragua and we've often talked about the foods he misses from his childhood. Well, low and behold his wife found some REAL cashew fruits (frozen, but legit). He brought me one in a bag and it still had the nut attached to the bottom of it. I tried eating the fruit (it was odd, but I've since learned that some people just chew it and suck out the juice, then spit out the 'pulp'). I messed around a bit and tried slicing it up, etc... When I was done, I tried biting the shell off of the nut (it was a soft shell (maybe because it was frozen?)). That didn't work too well, so I cut into the shell all the way around and was able to split it open. I couldn't really pop out the nut (it was kinda soft) so, I tried biting it out of the shell with little success. So, I cut into it with the knife and ate a little bit. It really wasn't good and I chalked it up as maybe being spoiled.
My lip and mouth started tingling / burning a little while later. I rinsed off / out my mouth and finished working on my daughters car. Coming inside about 1/2 hour later, it wasn't feeling much better. I looked at my lip / mouth in the mirror and it looked normal (not red or swollen like I had expected it to be). So, I chalked it up to me possibly being allergic to raw cashew nuts. I heated up and ate the pastelon he gave me (a banana / meat dish) and felt a little better but still had a tingling in my mouth.
I finally sat down in front of my PC and decided to google 'raw cashew po'... That was all I needed, auto complete filled in the 'poisonous' part for me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew
Ok, so I'm guessing that the small part of the raw nut I ate isn't enough to kill me. I'm guessing that reason my mouth was bothering me so much is the Poison Ivy type substance in the shell of the nut that I tried biting off. Well, the tingling / burning has mostly subsided (about 3 hours later) and I'm off to bed. I figured I'd drop a line here and ask how many people have ever hear of such a thing as this?
http://www.wisegeek.org/are-raw-cashews-really-poisonous.htm
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