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Sicilian ice-cream in a bread bun. A good solution to a local problem: the Mediterranean heat quickly melts the ice-cream, which is absorbed by the bread.

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Tiger Nuts
(Chufas)

see also
Nuts

Peanut shells, with one split open revealing two seeds with their brown seed coats.

Chufas, at Fiestas de San Isidro in Madrid -- Wikipedia

NOUN:	1.	(chiefly in plural) The edible tuber of chufa (Cyperus aesculentus)
ALTERNATIVE FORMS:		tigernut tiger-nut
ETYMOLOGY:
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Tiger Nut
Horchata
Fartons

In the News . . .

Loathed by Farmers, Loved by Ancients: The Strange History of Tiger Nuts -- NPR (27 April 2016)
'Nutcracker Man' Ate Tiger Nuts -- LiveScience (08 January 2014)
Baboon Feeding Ecology Informs the Dietary Niche of Paranthropus boisei -- PLoS ONE (08 January 2014)
Two Million Years Ago, Human Relative 'Nutcracker Man' Lived On Tiger Nuts -- Science Daily (09 January 2014)

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Tiger Nut

Peanut.

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
	Angiosperms
	Monocots
	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Cyperaceae
Genus:	Cyperus
Species:	C. esculentus

Binomial name
Cyperus esculentus

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