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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
The local indigenous people used them as a major food source, but I thought it was a developed taste for the bitterness much like coffee.
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Brazilian indigenous tribes often resorted to peanuts, with some growing their own varieties of peanuts differing from what other tribes used to grow. Not to mention the Brazilnuts which are prevalent in Amazon, or pine nuts which are a winter staple in my homeland Rio Grande do Sul and also in Paraná and Santa Catarina. AFAIK there is a pine nut variety in Australia that is often eaten and the water from its cooking used as some sort of tea, yet I have never seen any similar usage of the water from cooking Brazilian pine nuts as a beverage.