National Peanut Lovers’ Day
Also: National Pears Helene Day
Five Food Finds for Peanuts
- Nuts are most healthy in their raw form. The reason is that over 15% of the healthy oils are lost in the roasting process.
- Studies show that people who eat nuts regularly live 2-3 years longer than those who don’t.
- The nut allergy is among the most common food allergies.
- Roasted nutshells were used as a coffee substitute during the civil war.
- Half of the world’s nuts are inedible or poisonous to humans.
Daily Food Quote
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-Charles M. Schulz
Today’s Food History
on this day…
- 1858 Liberty Hyde Bailey was born. He was a world famous American botanist who studied cultivated plants. He was dean of Horticulture at Cornell University for 15 years.
- 1891 Sir Joseph William Bazalgette died. A British civil engineer, he designed the main sewer system for London. Allowing for running water .
- 1980 McDonald’s test marketed Chicken McNuggets in Knoxville, Tennessee. They are so popular that they have to look for a second supplier.
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I love peanuts, can’t get enough of them! Really don’t like peanut butter though, eww
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It will soon be time for the Easter Egg Peanut won’t it? lol…Peanuts! They get nuttier by the day!
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I made sure to tell everyone I saw today that it was NPL Day! Love your posts, keep doing what you do! I followed you on twitter too! Can I get a follow back? 🙂 (@jinhurrr)
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It’s amazing how interested people are in peanuts and candy for food holidays. I just go with it and celebrate food every day. it took me about 5 years of blogging to just give up the ghost and enjoy.
Great post.
jb
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I was having the same thought as Viveka about the borderline gratuitous peanut holidays ;), especially given they’ve all come within a matter of weeks. Peanut Butter& Jelly, then Peanut Butter, now the Peanut … yeesh! And that’s from someone who loves it all! And I’m not alone, as my peanut butter post was among my most popular, which still continues to amaze me. (No one gave a hoot about the lobster bisque!)
(http://blog.pknewby.com/2012/02/16/peanut-butter-tasty-healthy-and-its-not-just-for-kids/) As always, thanks for all the fun food facts! PK (@pknewby)
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I know, I know, I don’t think there is a peanut holiday for months after today. Off to celebrate Spring things!
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Here we go again … celebrating the peanut – can’t belive it!!! Is there a “Peanut Hate Day” too ????!!!*laughing. As I pointed out earlier it’s the most deadly allergic’s there is.
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