Thursday, February 26, 2009

National Pistachio Day

What a wonderful day.  A day to celebrate pistacia vera l.  Probably my favorite nut.  Even with my love for the pistachio, I had to learn about this celebratory day from a restaurant place mat.  Once a couple of years ago I entered a drawing to win free pistachios for a year from pistachios.org, but when I look at the site today it seems much different.  Pistachios.com is a site from Arizona, so I know it was .org because they were definitely California pistachios.
I took pistachios to work today and people told me I was a nut.  Good one.  I've put some links below because I know how badly you want to learn about my favorite nut, but my favorite fact is that bulk container shipments of pistachio nuts are prone to self heating and spontaneous combustion because of their high fat and low water content.  Nuts on fire.  Awesome.




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