Awesome, dude

A tree. But is it huggable? Photograph: David Sillitoe

Dude, I just read the most awesome study. Everyone outside California knows that Californians are a bunch of godless freaks, given to hugging trees and electing actors as governor. Now a survey carried out for California's agricultural industry has proved there may be some truth in the stereotypes about the Golden State, or as the jealous residents of less privileged states call it, the "land of fruits and nuts".