UM EXCUSE ME DID YOU KNOW THAT CASHEWS GROW ON TREES ON TOP OF THIS FRUCKIN FRUIT??? WHY DID NO ONE EVER TELL ME THIS SHIT?!! #CostaRica [1] pic.twitter.com/MPkEWxIRt4 [2]
— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) March 7, 2017 [3]
While visiting Costa Rica, Matt McGorry shared an intriguing photo and fact about cashews on Twitter: they grow on trees on top of fruit. Search for images of a "cashew tree" and you'll see that this intriguing fact is true! Chrissy Teigen quickly responded to his tweet:
@MattMcGorry [4] DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT EAT THE RAW NUT IN THE STEM THING. IT IS LIKE RUBBING POISON IVY IN YOUR MOUTH
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 7, 2017 [5]
Of course, Matt had to ask . . .
@chrissyteigen [6] @MattMcGorry [7] IS THIS FROM EXPERIENCE?
— nic shields (@nicshields) March 7, 2017 [8]
Chrissy shared more deets:
@nicshields [9] @MattMcGorry [10] YES I ALSO HALLUCINATED AND LAUGHED HYSTERICALLY AND PUKED EVERYWHERE
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 7, 2017 [11]
If that's not enough to dissuade you, DuJour once asked Chrissy to share something she's tried [12] that she would never try again and she responded:
"Eating a raw cashew nut out of the stem. I did it in Brazil and it was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. Online there are so many stories of people doing the same thing. You start to hallucinate. I scooped it out with a butter knife, and I ate it and within 10 minutes I was hallucinating. I was seeing purple blobs. Apparently in its raw form, it's like eating a rare cactus. We were at dinner with people and my eyes started twitching and then my tongue got really slippery — that was the weirdest part — I lost control of my tongue and everyone is like, 'So where are we going next?' And I was like, 'I gotta go.' So we go home, and I lay on the ground and took all my clothes off and curled in a ball naked. And John was like, 'What the fuck is going on?' And I'm cackling laughing and throwing up all over the floor and between my legs while sitting on the toilet. So yeah, I would never do that again. Just Google: I ate a raw cashew nut. You'll see."