Tuesday, November 23, 2010

National Cashew Day

Michelle has just alerted me that today is National Cashew Day! You might not know this, but she and I are bonded by our uncontrollable love for that squirrelly little nut. (I bet you thought it was writing, but no.)

In honor of the day, I am posting my Rooster excerpt that describes the emotional impact of the cashew:

She inspects the cashew she picked up, the delicate curled shape, the soft flesh-colored surface. The nut reminds her of a fetus curled in her palm, and she finds herself cradling it gently--she cannot eat it.

Unfortunately for our international readers, you are not allowed to participate in the day's festivities.

19 comments:

  1. Oh, I love cashews. I must eat some today despite the huge blizzard coming our way. I love that scene from Rooster. I think about it every time I see cashews. I'm glad I'm still able to eat them. :)

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  2. Mmmmm, fetus nuts!

    Wow, that sounds obscene.

    Seriously, though, this makes me want to pick some up on the way home today. Cashews are delicious, fattening, protein-rich, and easy to eat with the hands while typing. This is great news for someone trying to gain 10 pounds over the holidays (hahaha, what fun) while sitting around writing and working from home. I feel like celebrating.

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  3. Michelle, it would be a shame if you couldn't eat them anymore.

    Genie, Fetus nuts for everyone!

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  4. Cashew? Gesundheit. They're alright but I prefer smoked almonds. I love the smell of cyanide in the morning.

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  5. Cashews would be fine today, though we might have roasted chestnuts instead, if we sally forth (it's a snow day in Seattle) and get firewood somewhere. Frankly, I don't so much want to leave the house. My commute home last night took 6 hours; I never want to sit in a bus seat that long again.

    Why isn't there an international cashew day? Where's the UN when you need 'em?

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  6. I just read about this holiday on another site, so it seems to be a big thing. I'm all for it. Recently cashews seem to have got cheaper. Even cheaper than walnuts at a local Trader Joe's. A friend substituted them in a batch of cookies and...yum!

    Sorry about your 6 hour commute, Scott. Sounds pretty grim. I'm sure it would have been better with cashews.

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  7. Oh my goodness, I knew there was some reason I felt like I connected with you guys. I both eat and cook with cashews on a regular basis. In fact, the only way I can get through the microwave steamed Asian meals I eat on class nights is by dumping Thai chili sauce and cashews on them.

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  8. Notice my restraint, by the way, at using the fetal comparison to launch into any direct and explicit stories from the lab.

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  9. Your rooster excerpt gave me a writing epiphany about how to connect external objects to weird internal though processes that deepen the story. Which may sound facetious, but is not.

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  10. Chuck, almonds are good, but today is not National Almond Day, is it?

    Scott, I imagine there was some hot debate in the UN over this controversial day. In some countries, the cashew is the sign of the devil.

    Anne, I hope you get to enjoy some affordable cashews! I'd probably buy a lot more of them if they weren't so expensive. I was lucky enough to see some cashews in the trees in Brazil. It was sort of shocking, actually.

    Nevets, Michelle and I will let you join our Cashew Club if we determine that your love for the cashew is strong enough. You may have to send us food samples. That's how we roll.

    Tara Maya, I'm delighted and ever so slightly shocked that this post was somehow helpful to you!

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  11. "Oh, can't I celebrate it just a little bit," says the Aussie :)

    Rach

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  12. Woohoo!!!

    You know, I think I'd be seriously disturbed by your excerpt if I wasn't chortling so hard ;)

    Rach

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  13. I'm not above sending freezer-packs of decently re-heatable cooking. lol

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  14. You might not know this, but she and I are bonded by our uncontrollable love for that squirrelly little nut.

    Aww, and here I was hoping that the squirrelly little nut you bonded over loving was me... :D

    I do like cashews (though seriously every time I see one now I'll see a fetus so I may never eat one again. I'm not easily influenced. Nope.) but I'm twelve kinds of crazy for pistachios. It's my grandfather's fault. Almonds...peanuts...okay, I'm really just your average assorted mixed nut...

    ~bru

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  15. No National Cashew Day for me?

    Meh.

    I prefer peanuts anyway. =P

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  16. I wouldn't eat a fetus either. Maybe a wholly-developed child, but definitely not a fetus. They lack flavor.

    Is this a bad time to say Happy Thanksgiving, enjoy your turkey?

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