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RECENT SURVEY
RESULTS
0k, so you've punched up CHUFA. Congratulate yourself for knowing a word that, in a recent survey, only 6.34% of literate Americans have even heard, much less know the meaning of. What a strange word, with an equally strange etymological history that doesn't seem to connect at all with what it is. The word comes from Old Spanish, chufar, chuflar, to hiss at, laugh at. But what a chufa is, is an edible tuber from a simple plant. When freshly dug and full of moisture, it resembles a squirrel-sized mountain oyster, and when dried, it looks like a dusty brown, wrinkled raisin. Who in his right mind gets ticked off...or tickled at...the sight of a miniature mountain oyster or a giant brown raisin? Then there are folks who use chufas as bait for carp.
Another, special use for the chufa, in this case called "tiger nuts", the partially dried nuts are used as an offering to the deities in Caribbean and related religions, in some cases part of a fertility/sexual ritual.
Another finding
in the survey
was that of the 6.34% who knew the word chufa, only 84% knew what it
was and
what it was good for. And it may not surprise you to know that 93.7% of
those
who did know belonged to a special group of people. Which means,
incidentally,
that more likely than not, you belong to that group: that you are here
not
to find out what a chufa is, but where to get some. You've come to the
right
place.
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Address: 297 Railroad Avenue, DeFuniak Springs FL 32433
Email: John Wilkerson
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