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I also figured this was just a "let's screw with the youth"-type post. We used to eat pistachios all the time when I was a kid (I'm 35) and I don't think I've ever seen a red one before today. They were always beige/greenish.
We over-60s remember when pistachios were red, airplane security was non-existent and everywhere smelled like cigarettes.
I'm two decades younger and remember all that except red pistachios. And my family used to eat a lot of pistachios.
...i can remember watching the apollo-soyuz flight and i remember old people eating red pistachios; i also remember loose tobacco shops in every shopping mall and used to show up at the airport five minutes before my flight and waltz onto the plane without issue...
Hey, I'm not even 40 and I remember getting to check out the cockpit of a plane multiple times. And the brown glass ashtrays at McDonalds.
I'm also 35, and I remember the red ones. But my mom ate a lot of pistachios and sunflower seeds when she quit smoking in the mid 90s
Now smoking is much more financially responsible than eating pistachios
Where? In EU and Australia at least tobacco is taxed to high heaven and costs like 10+ western money units (take whichever, dollar or euro, still roughly applies) a pack/pouch
I pay 14.30€ for a 30g pouch of rolling tobacco. And it's probably more expensive the next time I buy because the pack before that was 13.50€. There's a few price-hikes every year.
I'm in the US but it varies state to state. Some states are dirt cheap while others are insanely high. Probably 8 to 10 dollars a pack on average around me
Oh well, it's still a bit cheaper than here, relatively.
But I remberer lots of people saying how they were gonna quit once packs hit 5€. And at the time it felt like something crazy that would never happen, and packs cost like 3 or at most 4€ then.
I mean yeah, I don't consume as much cigarettes nowadays, in fact none, but am still a smoker as I don't like smoking weed without tobacco, but I also don't like smoking tobacco without weed.
My opinion is just that vice taxes are shit, because while there might be an argument made, it disproportionately affects people of different income. What's a pack of ciggies tripling their price to someone with high and stable income? Nothing. What is it to the lowest classes? With minimum wage back in idk say 2005 you only needed to work like 15-20min to earn enough for ciggies, now it's definitely more than an hour. And that's not counting income taxation etc, just from gross pay.
Yeah, I'm 38 and remember red pistachios. Also remember finding some sort of worm thing burrowed into one of those red pistachios, while I was sitting at my grandfather's kitchen table eating pistachios. Didn't stop me. Well, it stopped me from eating that one. But I'm always leery if a pistachio has a hole in it.
Don't sleep on the extra protein, bro!
It's chew into your brain and make you Secretary of Health, bro!