I guess I think of UF being the bigger rivalry because it's closer and I've grown up with more trash talking between UF and FSU rather than FSU and Miami.
I still have memories of wet green paint sticking to the seat and legs of my uniform the year that UM decided they needed to paint the bleachers where the band would be sitting.
The day before the game.
With Miami humidity? Right.
Of course, Gainesville is where the tires to my car got slashed.
No real love for either team.
We're home and finally watching last night's Mad Men.
Suddenly my sinuses are completely blocked. Even though I took a decongestant fifteen minutes ago. WTF?
two thumbs up on the chicken & dumplings.
mine too. It takes some effort, but it was really freaking good.
Random wikipedia-clicking has informed me that, according to botanists, neither almonds, cashews, nor Brazil nuts are actually nuts. Macadamia nuts seem valid, but some types of walnuts are questionable.
What's not nutty about almonds and cashews? We eat the fruit around cashews and almonds and as kids ignored the nutty potential. Perhaps we were right all along.
Yep, they're drupes: [link]
Macadamia nuts seem valid
And tasty! And the only native Australian crop to achieve any sort of large-scale cultivation.
And tasty! And the only native Australian crop to achieve any sort of large-scale cultivation.
However, wikipedia also gives this somewhat startling bit of information:
1858 - Walter Hill, Superintendent of the Brisbane City Botanical Gardens, observes a boy eating the nut without ill effect, becoming the first non-indigenous person recorded to eat Macadamia.
Which pretty much gives the impression that he thought there would be ill effect, saw the boy eating the nut, and rather than stopping him, decided to observe him and see what would happen.
Which pretty much gives the impression that he thought there would be ill effect, saw the boy eating the nut, and rather than stopping him, decided to observe him and see what would happen.
He might also simply not have had time to react. I, however, prefer to think that he was the one actively feeding the boy macadamias.