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Sicilian ice-cream in a bread bun. A good solution to a local problem: the Mediterranean heat quickly melts the ice-cream, which is absorbed by the bread.

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“If cashews are not nuts,
and they irritate your skin much like poison ivy does,
what are they?”

Haagen-Dazs ice cream.

We are Nuts

Cashew seeds are commonly considered a snack nut.

The ripe cashew fruit is known as a "cashew apple".

"The true fruit of the cashew tree is a kidney -- or boxing-glove-shaped drupe that grows at the end of the cashew apple. The drupe develops first on the tree, and then the pedicel expands to become the cashew apple. The true fruit contains a single seed, which is often considered a nut in the culinary sense. The seed is surrounded by a double shell that contains an allergenic phenolic resin, anacardic acid—which is a potent skin irritant chemically related to the better-known and also toxic allergenic oil urushiol, which is found in the related poison ivy and lacquer tree."

Cashew -- Wikipedia

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