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[Closed] How closely related are pistachios and mussels?

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They're quite similar in many ways, but in other ways, quite different.


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 6:19 pm
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Both members of the nutstacean family.


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 6:22 pm
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Question of the week, made me smile.

So for starters, quite similar in shape. Very different in texture.


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 6:22 pm
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It's considerably more difficult, when exercising, to turn fat into pistachios.


 
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You can only eat pistachios when there's not an 'r' in the month, right?


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 6:52 pm
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I had the same thought this morning, but about the hazelnut and the winkle.


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 7:18 pm
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Vegans won't touch one of them,forget which.
I'm more beguiled by the fact that peanuts are part of the pea family.Ever heard of anyone allergic to peas?


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 7:34 pm
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Pistachios and mussels are like twins, but which is the evil one?


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 7:37 pm
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I always throw away unopened pistachios once they're cooked...

DrP


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 8:10 pm
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Cougar, IME turning fat into either is pretty much impossible


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 8:13 pm
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But that's less funny.


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 8:16 pm
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you're damn-tootin' right there ๐Ÿ™


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 8:20 pm
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Mustachios are delicious, my favourite gm hybrid.

Can't link to the Stan and Ollie sketch in the Ice Cream Parlour, ('Got any mustachio?)' but it's a cracker.


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 8:21 pm
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Fairly close I reckon. Humans share 70% of their DNA with sea sponges and 50% with bananas. I extrapolate therefore that sea sponges and bananas are fairly closely related, which brings me to the conclusion that pistachios and mussels must also probably be closely related too.

*Disclaimer - I am not a scientist.


 
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Mustachios are delicious, my favourite gm hybrid
Until you've had a pissle, you're not even in the game 8)


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 8:36 pm
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Humans share 70% of their DNA with sea sponges and 50% with bananas.

But bananas are radioactive, is that the 50% they don't share with humans?


 
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Bananas are radioactive ? WTF ?!?! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 8:43 pm
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It's true
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They wash those stickers off before they put them on the shelves at Asda


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 9:21 pm
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Humans share 70% of their DNA with sea sponges and 50% with bananas

is 'sharing DNA' a euphemism? In the sense that one might occasionally share a bit of DNA with a sock?


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 9:49 pm
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Bananas are radioactive ? WTF ?!?!

The name of the yellow, used in the radioactive sign, is actually called Banana Yellow.


 
Posted : 08/04/2012 9:51 pm