Baklava (Pistachio)

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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It's Plant Based Diet: Just Desserts, where we talk about 4 of the world's sweetest trees. First up, the pistachio! (Pistacia vera) Hear all about its origins in the Middle East and the dessert that made it famous: baklava.

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0:07.5	That's audible.
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0:09.7	slash Wondery.
0:14.7	What's up, fungal associates?
0:18.5	Welcome to completely arbitrary.
0:20.4	This is the podcast about trees and other related topics. I'm one of your hosts. My name is Alex Croason. And of course, over there on the big green couch, we got Casey Clap. Hello, Casey Clap. What's up, world? It's me. It's Casey Clap here representing me. Casey, today's a very special day. I'll tell you why. And then I know that you have something to say.
0:40.0	Okay. Today is the first episode of a brand new series here on completely arbitrary.
0:45.3	Yum, yum, yum. A brand new series. It's called plant-based diet, hold on. Colon, just desserts.
0:55.2	Oh, good. Okay, so this actually makes a lot of sense because in my recollection, which is thorough, we have had a plant-based diet before.
1:05.0	I believe we've had two.
1:06.3	Yes, exactly.
1:07.2	We had plant-based diet.
1:08.2	We had plant-based diet part due.
1:10.6	Yes. And then we have now plant-based diet just desserts, and this will be the very last plant-based diet we ever do. That's right, because you know what? You fucking earned it. This is your just desserts. That's right. What does that mean, Alex? Well, for the next four weeks, we are going to be talking about trees that produce something
1:28.2	that us humans love to whip up flambay and a whisk.
1:36.7	And cream.
1:37.9	And cream.
1:38.9	And humans love to cream into dessert.
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