Mr. President, we have a PISTACHIO GAP!
Posted on 04/26/2007 9:19:44 PM PDT by nuconvert
Iran holds 55% of world pistachio production
TEHRAN, April 25 (Mehr News Agency) – Iran holds 55 percent of world's pistachio production, said the National Conference on Pistachio Processing and Packaging Secretary Nasser Sedaqat in Mashhad, the capital of northeastern Khorassan Province, on Wednesday.
Accounting for 59 percent of global pistachio exports, Iran stood first, he said, adding that pistachio ranked second to carpet in non-oil exports.
Totally 10 percent of country's non-oil exports belongs to pistachio, Sedaqat said.
Exporting 150 thousand tons of pistachio in last Iranian year (ended on March 20) earned Iran over $800 million, he added.
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I can live without green ice cream.
We have some very fine pistachios grown in California. The California ones are so fine that they don’t have to be dyed red to hid the imperfections.
“No Blood For Pistachios!”
THAT’S IT! GRRRRRRRRRRRR...I’m tellin’ my wife we aren’t going to be making anymore Pistachio Ice Cream or cookies period.
I mean I’ll ask her not to.
Now they have something they can hold over our heads … surrender is inevitable.
I heard they dyed them red to camoflage the sweaty dirt from the picker’s hands. I never could buy red pistachios after that.
I think America can survive with California Pistachio nuts. Better quality at any rate. The Europeans can go beg the Iranians for nuts.
Never had a red Iranian pistachio.
I love pistachios, luckily Turkey provides an excellent alternative.
BOYCOTT PISTACIOS!!!
Perhaps a boycott of Iranian pistacios would have an impact.
IIRC, prior to the hostage confrontation with Iran, they had nearly all of the production, that our domestic industry was virtually nothing.
Thanks to the cutoff back then, CA has developed a good industry and a very fine product. Pastachios in the stores now are cheaper and of superior quality compared to those days, IMO.
“Perhaps a boycott of Iranian pistacios would have an impact.”
Only if the boycott was in the middle east and europe and Asia.
OMG, I didn’t realize this quagmire would hit so deep.
How is a free world to live without pistachios?
Oh the HUGE MANATEE(sorry, picture not available)!
Let’s all call our elected leaders to do something to avert this crisis.
Mr. President, we have a PISTACHIO GAP!
http://www.pistachios.org/Trade/Trade.asp
We export a lot of them - wonder why? SUPERIOR in every way.
The heavy plantings started thanks to the ineptitude of Jimmah "Peanut" Catarrh.
We lost our supply from Iran, so Americans started to grow the pistachios we no longer could (nor wanted to!) import.
Carter, the peanut farmer and yet another failure... the irony of this is just too rich. :)
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