Write a Caption: Win Some Cocoa from Nicaragua!

Posted on November 20th, 2009 8:34am by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Breakfast, Cheap trick for comments, Groceries, Silly Reasons to Celebrate, Travel

pig2While I was in Nicaragua last week, I visited a remote field where workers were busy harvesting lovely yellow pods from cocao trees. I sat with them as they hacked the fruit open and extracted the seeds. Of course, I couldn’t resist sucking the delicious white pulp inside the pod and spitting the seeds at my fellow compadres. Delicious fun. More on that later.

Anywhoo, as the sun set, we headed to do some bird watching among the mangrove forests on the coast. (Tiger herons!) One of the guys on the trip, Jerry Garret, a writer for the New York Times, stayed behind and took this photo of us as we left the dock. He’s holding an unofficial caption contest with no prizes. I figured we’d have our own. Winner gets a bag of powdered cocoa (drinking chocolate) from a plantation outside of Leon, Nicaragua. (My entry was: “A pork in the river.”) GO!

26 comments

  1. Did we tell you we’d all be participating in the preparation of lunch?

    @ 9:18 am on November 20, 2009

  2. “Swine Flew”

    @ 9:30 am on November 20, 2009

  3. Pork loins awash in saucy ahoy.

    @ 9:44 am on November 20, 2009

  4. “Spectators gather for the 2:30 piranha feeding.”

    @ 10:05 am on November 20, 2009

  5. Tourists found the elusive birthspot of swine flu. They were fed to piranhas shortly thereafter.

    @ 10:07 am on November 20, 2009

  6. The tree is theobroma cacao, or the cacao tree.

    “Cocoa” is derivative of “cacao” and is often used to refer to the nut or the chocolate drink.

    There is no such thing as a “cocao tree.”

    @ 10:25 am on November 20, 2009

  7. “Be vewy vewy quiet; I’m, hunting bacon.”

    @ 11:01 am on November 20, 2009

  8. And to your right ladies and gentlemen, is our friend Nick the Pig. And as you can see, Nick Hog Agua.

    I can’t believe I just posted that.

    @ 11:19 am on November 20, 2009

  9. “You think you’re having fun sucking white pulp inside pods and spitting seeds at your fellow compadres? You should try some of this authentic Nicaraguan River Stew brewed by yours truly, Shimmeree the Pig!”

    @ 11:38 am on November 20, 2009

  10. At the next stop on your culinary tour, we’ll be showing you the fascinating process of harvesting underwater Nicaraguan truffles.

    @ 12:45 pm on November 20, 2009

  11. Er, Nancy, I thought YOU were bringing the bacon.

    @ 1:01 pm on November 20, 2009

  12. “Travelling around Nicaragua, one often sees representatives of the Salaministas”

    @ 3:19 pm on November 20, 2009

  13. “My dear guests, I am Mr. Pork, your host. Welcome to Fantasy Island.”

    @ 5:14 pm on November 20, 2009

  14. a pig enjoys a drink on the river bank while boat operator is engulfed in flames.

    @ 5:25 pm on November 20, 2009

  15. …and this little piggy went to Nicaragua.

    @ 6:27 am on November 21, 2009

  16. Dude I drank out of that river

    @ 2:04 pm on November 21, 2009

  17. I can’t compete with any of the above. All are very clever and funny!

    @ 3:05 pm on November 21, 2009

  18. Further to my above post, if it were up to me, I’d give the golden pig award to “Brad”.

    @ 3:07 pm on November 21, 2009

  19. Quit hogging all the attention….

    @ 3:19 pm on November 21, 2009

  20. “I was always more of a Mary Ann fan…”

    @ 6:03 pm on November 21, 2009

  21. That’ll do, Pig, that’ll do

    @ 6:58 am on November 22, 2009

  22. they must of all ready had lunch

    @ 5:28 pm on November 22, 2009

  23. Rio Lardon

    @ 10:42 am on November 23, 2009

  24. “It was here when the fresh breeze blew against the their faces, the blue water reflecting sunlight in there eyes, and the fat belly hog oinked on the sand… that they finally knew they found sh** creek …”

    @ 12:13 pm on November 23, 2009

  25. …….And, without a paddle, I might add.

    @ 7:19 pm on November 23, 2009

  26. But this is where the BEACH FRONT third vacation-home condo development is supposed to be, right?

    @ 8:44 am on November 24, 2009