From jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU Fri Oct 05 11:01:09 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jimc@math.ucla.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 5 Oct 2001 17:58:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 59581 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2001 17:58:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 5 Oct 2001 17:58:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO simba.math.ucla.edu) (128.97.4.125) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Oct 2001 18:01:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (jimc@localhost) by simba.math.ucla.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id f95I18601373 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:01:08 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: simba.math.ucla.edu: jimc owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:01:08 -0700 (PDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] spatnrosace In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011005090420.00dd9d30@pop.cais.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: "James F. Carter" On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > ... > Well, I don't know about almonds, which I thought were nuts, but the rest > are an edible fruit with a single seed in the middle. If you've ever had a peach or apricot pit break, you'll find inside the shell a little seed that looks like an almond. Almond fruit is similar to an apricot but the farmers optimize for more inner seed and less flesh, which is thrown away. I've heard it said that apricot seeds have a lot of HCN, to discourage seed predators from eating them. So don't do that. If you're a horse you're supposed to eat the whole thing without breaking the pit, which you then transport elsewhere and provide with fertilizer for its new life. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)