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Re:Why pine nuts are expensive [video] by baybal2 on Monday November 01, 2021 @08:41PM (#29075393)
Most of "Chinese" pine nuts these days are from Afghanistan/Pakistan, only shipped to China for packaging.

You can easily distinguish them. Long ones are from Afghanistan, short from China, Norko, Russia

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Re:Why pine nuts are expensive [video] by trompetenaccoun on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @08:09AM (#29093524)
https://pinenutsyndrome.wordpress.com/pine-nut-species

Interestingly I've never seen type A sold in China and I've sure eaten my fair share of pine nuts. Seems like these are mostly exported to other countries then? Would be hilarious if the bad ones are sold off to foreigners.

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Re:Why pine nuts are expensive [video] by baybal2 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:29AM (#29095124)
> Would be hilarious if the bad ones are sold off to foreigners.

It is hilarious that it is often the case in the industry. Most Chinese don't believe that's the case.

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Re:Why pine nuts are expensive [video] by trompetenaccoun on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @09:34PM (#29102727)
Yeah, based on personal anecdotes I suspect this as well. Never seen hard evidence for it though, I'm really curious if anyone's ever studied this.
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