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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 139 points 1 week ago (22 children)

At my job there this almond flavored coffee pods that when brewed smelled overwhelmingly almond-y. My cousin works in metal reclamation an they work with a LOT of cyanide, I tell him if he ever wants the day off, I'll get him a pod, all he needs to do is spill that coffee and they'd shut down the entire floor to double check things.

(context if you're lost is that cyanide smells a lot like almonds)

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Fun fact, wild almonds have lethal amounts of cyanide, it's only through selective breeding that we can eat them

[–] remer@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Who the hell thought, “OK, so it killed Bill, but I think there’s something here. We just need to keep trying.”

[–] RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Because almonds are tasty as fuck. As long as someone else is testing the new strains that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Also, everything gets taste tested during a for real famine.

[–] helloworld55@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

I imagine wild almonds probably taste like burning

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't really think almonds taste good imo. They're pretty bland to me.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are entitled to your own opinion irrespectivly of how wrong it is.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

fair enough haha

I'm not a big fan of almonds by themselves, but I love almond butter, almond milk, and roasted almonds.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The nuts are bunk, but the extract is where it's at!

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