At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the girls stretched themselves, took out some bottles and bags from the drawer, ate cashew snacks, made a cup of coffee and milk tea and had afternoon tea.
I still remember a few years ago, every time a girl at the next table ate cashews, she would give me some, and she didn't forget to tell me.
"Zheng Xiaotong, eat more cashews and have more vitamins, which can replenish physical strength, resist fatigue and protect the skin from ultraviolet rays."
Cashew nuts are popular not only in the office, but also at the dinner table.
At dinner, drink red wine and white wine and order a plate of fried peanuts and cashews as an appetizer. It is perfect, lasting and crisp, chewed in your mouth and full of energy.
Often when the wine is finished, cashews are also eaten.
What many friends don't know is that cashews contain a lot of magnesium, which is just a supplement for drinkers.
People who drink regularly actually have a great demand for magnesium.
Alcohol will increase the loss of magnesium in the body. If the body loses too much magnesium, it will lead to a decline in metabolism, hormonal imbalance and listlessness.
Therefore, the status of cashews has always been in full swing.
Together with hazelnut, walnut and almond, it is called "the four biggest nuts in the world".
All mankind loves cashews!
You can imagine how walnuts and hazelnuts grow on trees, but you can't imagine how cashews grow on trees.
If you describe it to girls, their eyes will be bigger than those with cosmetic contact lenses!
Cashews are really different!
Besides, the cashew nuts we eat are just a seed with a hard shell outside.
And unlike walnuts and hazelnuts, it is a complete nut, and its color is not gray and white as we usually see.
What is even more surprising is that there is a "big tumor" behind the "ass" of cashew nuts.
It is big and fat. It looks like an apple, but it's not like an apple. It's not like red pepper. I can't say what it is. Anyway, we in China have never seen it.
However, it is also full of lens sense and attractive lighting.
Cashew nuts, English name is cashew nuts.
There is a famous legend about the origin of its name.
Three hundred years ago, Indians liked to sell cashews on the beach. It is said that a coin can buy eight cashews, but in India at that time, this coin was called "cash".
The name of cashew nuts has been changed to "cashinettu", which means coin nuts. Later, it gradually became the current name cashew nut.
But in fact, the English name of cashew nuts comes from Portuguese, from Brazil, the hometown of cashew nuts.
When the Portuguese conquered Brazil in the16th century, they found that the local people liked to eat a kind of fruit called "Kayou" (meaning a nut that can reproduce itself). Over time, "Kayou" evolved into "cashew nuts".
Cashew nuts, like the "international chapter" of the entertainment circle, go from one country to the international, and then people all over the world love to eat them.
When the Portuguese discovered Brazil's delicious cashews, they took them to Mozambique in Africa to grow them, and began the international star tour of cashews.
Unexpectedly, African cashews are not as acclimatized as expected, but life is flourishing, which makes the Portuguese earn a lot of money.
As a result, cashew nuts were brought to India, and as a result, cashew nuts soared in India.
Subsequently, it quickly swept through Thailand and Myanmar, two countries located between the Tropic of Cancer.
The tropics once became the irresistible territory of cashew nuts.
Now, India, Nigeria, Brazil and Vietnam are the main producing areas of cashew nuts.
Kollam in India used to be the cashew capital of the world, producing 60% of the world's cashews, but it was later replaced by Vietnam, which used machines to produce cashews because of its low efficiency.
In other words, most of the nuts we usually eat are made in Vietnam.
In China, cashew nuts have been planted in several provinces for decades, but for various reasons, the output has been unable to go up.
China, also known as Ledong County, is famous for its Ledong cashews.
Ledong County, known as the hometown of cashew nuts in China, is the earliest place to build a cashew nut production base in China.
Mainly because cashew trees like warmth, are not cold-resistant, and can't stand the cold wave and frost.
The largest cashew fruit tree can grow to more than ten meters, and the short one is more than four meters, like a giant mushroom. In addition, wood can also be used to make furniture, shipbuilding and so on.
Medicinal fruit trees can also produce gum, which can be used as food additives, such as cotton candy, chocolate and cola drinks.
Maybe you, like Zheng Otter, have always had a question, why haven't you seen cashews with shells?
Whether sold in supermarkets or eaten in restaurants, cashews have no shells, and there are no "original" cashews on the market.
Other nuts, such as hazelnuts, almonds and walnuts, all have shells, which always makes people feel that cashews are born naked.
In fact, cashews also have shells, and the hardness and difficulty of opening the shells are beyond your imagination.
Then why have we never seen the shell of cashew nuts?
Poisonous!
You probably don't understand that there is a substance called cashew nut shell oil between cashew nut shell and cashew kernel, which is extremely toxic and corrosive. Someone once extracted this ingredient to poison it.
So, who dares to sell cashews with shells, and is not afraid that the policeman will invite him to tea?
However, it is easy to understand, just like a beautiful and enchanting rose, covered with thorns. In order to protect cashew kernel, which is too delicious to speak, nature has set up a test of "love even after death".
At the same time, it also gives workers many problems, how to safely remove the shell of cashew nuts.
Before the sheller was invented, the old method was used.
First, the cashew nuts with shells are dried in the sun, and then roasted on the fire. Only after the shell oil of cashew nuts is completely volatilized and the shell bursts and cools can cashew kernel be taken out.
For a long time, cashew kernel (what we are eating now) was delicious for the upper-class aristocrats, but not for ordinary people.
Because it is too expensive and dangerous to take out cashew kernel, workers will be poisoned to some extent even if they wear gloves.
At that time, owning a cashew tree was also a symbol of wealth status. Just as Zheng Aote, a friend from Yunnan, said, as long as there is a Pu 'er tea tree, you will be worry-free all your life!
Cashews are snacks, I don't need to say more.
The cashews we often eat in bags or cans are actually baked and fried in cashew kernel.
The most common way to eat cashews is to soak raw cashews in oil for a while, and then serve them as dessert.
At the same time, cashews are often used as ingredients in Chinese dishes because of their special taste, such as fried shrimps with cashews, fried diced chicken with celery cashews, fried vegetables with cashews and lilies.
As an "international waist", cashew nuts are not only sought after in China's catering industry, but also very popular in Asia, Europe, America and even the whole world.
Cashew nuts are often used in Southeast Asian cuisines, such as Vietnamese cuisine, Thai cuisine and Burmese cuisine.
There is also a very popular snack in Thailand, called Dongyin Palace cashew nuts, which is Dongyin Palace-style fried cashew nuts.
Indian curries are often mixed with cashews, which is particularly appetizing. Some cashews are also put in the famous Indian spicy rice.
As for western countries in Europe and America, cashews will be ground into jam and made into biscuits and cakes.
For the crispness of cashew nuts, westerners especially like them, so they have chocolate and ice cream from cashew kernel.
After talking so much about cashews, I still ignore another delicious food on the cashew tree-cashew apples.
Cashew apples, also known as cashew pears.
As mentioned earlier, the pulp of cashew nuts is formed by expanding the receptacle of cashew nuts.
In fact, this is also an edible fruit, which is sold as a fruit in cashew nut producing areas, such as Brazil and India.
It tastes sweet, sour and juicy, and it is also rich in vitamins, but because of tannic acid, it tastes bitter, and Brazilians prefer to squeeze it into waist juice.
Cashew apples are usually sold only in the local market because they are easy to ferment and rot quickly.
However, cashew apples have another function, which is unexpected.
In the making!
Smart Indians will juice cashew apples and ferment them a little to make an alcoholic beverage of 15 degree, which is called ulak Urrack.
Ulak can also be distilled into 42.8-degree cashew wine, which is called Feni wine. Locals also like to drink it with lemonade or tonic water.
Tanzanians in Africa even dried cashew apples to make highly alcoholic wine.
How about cashews? Which girl likes them? There are so many unexpected stories!