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I keel you (thump Thursday)

I keel you (thump Thursday)

I keel you (thump Thursday)

What the heck you talk to? For anyone who is familiar with Jeff Dunham’s rather irreverent and relatively naughty people (puppets I guess), you will know that Achmed the Dead Terrorist is instead inept at his task. Achmed’s “Keel You” skit is hilarious and most figures can be located on You Tube or DVD’s.

But this tiny range is not inept – it is a Bunya Nut that grows on our Australian Bunya Pine trees and if one falls on your head, it will absolutely keel you. More deadly than a coconut, I commonly warn the nearby Council to rope off the space. We uncovered two had fallen from the 60 foot (say 20 metre) trees in our area park this morning so I am happy I wasn’t under the tree at the time. I have acquired it positioned beside a normal plastic bucket and held up by a brick. It is spiky, about 10 inches significant and weighs possibly 3 kilograms (6 kilos, 6 ounces).

Here is a little bit about the nut itself and it really is employs (of course, you can take in some of it)…..

Whole cone and nuts
Indigenous Australians try to eat the nut of the bunya tree both uncooked and cooked (roasted, and in additional new periods boiled), and also in its immature sort. Typically, the nuts have been on top of that floor and built into a paste, which was eaten directly or cooked in incredibly hot coals to make bread. The nuts had been also stored in the mud of running creeks, and eaten in a fermented point out. This was regarded a delicacy.

Apart from consuming the nuts, Indigenous Australians ate bunya shoots, and utilised the tree’s bark as kindling.

Bunya nuts are even now offered as a common food product in grocery stalls and street-side stalls around rural southern Queensland. Some farmers in the Broad Bay/ Sunshine Coast regions have experimented with expanding bunya trees commercially for their nuts and timber.

Bunya timber was and is continue to highly valued as “tonewood” for stringed instruments’ sound boards because the initially European settlers. Given that the mid-1990s, the Australian corporation Maton has made use of bunya for the soundboards of its BG808CL Performer acoustic guitars. The Cole Clark enterprise (also Australian) makes use of bunya for the bulk of its acoustic guitar soundboards. The timber is valued by cabinet makers and woodworkers, and has been applied for that objective for around a century.

However, its most preferred use is as a ‘bushfood’ by indigenous foodstuff fans. A massive selection of property-invented recipes now exists for the bunya nut from pancakes, biscuits and breads, to casseroles, to ‘bunya nut pesto’ or hoummus. The nut is deemed wholesome, with a special flavour comparable to starchy potato and chestnut.

When the nuts are boiled in h2o, the drinking water turns crimson, producing a flavoursome tea.

The nutritional articles of the bunya nut is: 40% drinking water, 40% elaborate carbohydrates, 9% protein, 2% fat, .2% potassium, .06% magnesium.[21] It is also gluten cost-free, generating bunya nut flour a substitute for individuals with gluten intolerance.

If you want to study about the full tree, try this hyperlink

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_bidwillii

Posted by John from Brisbane on 2021-02-04 02:50:59

Tagged: , bunya pine , bunya nut

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