Thursday, August 09, 2007

Added Flavour

You may have seen the HSBC advert which shows goats grazing in trees. I am sure many think that this is simply computer generated. However I would like to inform you that this is real. In Morocco goats really do climb Argan trees in order to eat the fruit and the leaves. What looks like a fake is in fact real.

The story gets more interesting though. The Argan tree is well known in Morocco for its nut which produces woderful oil, similar to olive oil. The goats eat the fruit, which is digested, but the nut passes through and out the other end. Where it is collected by the farmers, broken into kernels which are then used to produce the oil and, think of this and what it has gone through to get to this point, a thick paste used as a dip for bread at breakfast.

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