
And this is what it escaped from:

Yummy, delicious cashews!
Almost every one of you got it right!
Goofy Girl: Looks like it is a nut!! (ok, she wasn't specific, but she's cute and she does a HELLUVA blog design!!!)
Robin: "Ooh, ooh, it's a cashew! (Hey, that rhymes LOL.)"
Laura: Yep, Im going to have to go with cashew - salted of course!
Dyane: A lone cashew, acting as a distraction so that the rest can escape before being munched!
Michelle, who's currently blogless, said very succintly: "It's a cashew."
MaryEllen, more commonly known as ME, who is also blogless, said: Oh thank goodness its a cashew, I was feeling so sorry for that little Travelocity gnome fella.
Mel, my blogless cousin, was the last; she said: It looks like a cashue to me.
Susan had the funniest one: "Dammit, I always knew I'd lose my nose the minute it wasn't attached to my face!"
On this, the first Wednesday of 2008, L-Squared, my co-contributer, has provided the picture!
So...

What is it?