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| OmManiPadmeOmelet |
In article <3st220FpbjjtU1@individual.net>,
"Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kenneth wrote:
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> > On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:19:25 -0600, OmManiPadmeOmelet
> > <Omelet@brokenegz.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Wolf Peaches are now known as "Tomatoes".
> > >
> > > They were once thought to be deady poison since the leaves and
> > > roots are. ;-)
> >
> > and the awareness that they were not is (historically) very
> > recent. I had seen a newspaper article that explained that
> > some fellow was going to eat an entire tomato on the steps
> > of a Massachusetts city hall, and IIRC the date was
> > something like 1840...!
>
> Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson, as the legend goes. It's not clear
> whether it really happened or not, probably a made-up story.
>
> Italian, Spanish and French cooks were using tomatoes in cuisine for a
> long time before that. Jefferson grew and ate them in the late 18th
> Century, and had them served at Presidential dinners. At some times,
> some people believed them to be poisonous. This was more prevalent in
> the US.
>
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>
> Brian
Decided to do some googling on it just for grins.
Interesting stuff:
http://tinyurl.com/bsmd7
http://www.13labs.com/garden/archives/000174.html
http://anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=1249
Lots more on Google about the supposed toxicity of this wonderful fruit.
;-) Fun reading from an historical (and hysterical) viewpoint!
--
Om.
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson
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OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> I, for one, could not imagine living without tomatoes...
The unseasonably warm weather we had here (St. Louis) led to my
brother's garden producing tomatoes well into fall. I'm nursing the
last of the home-growns he gave me a couple of weeks ago. More acid
than high-summer ones but infinitely better than anything available in
the stores.
Brian
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If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
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| OmManiPadmeOmelet |
In article <3svbcdFptijuU1@individual.net>,
"Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
>
> > I, for one, could not imagine living without tomatoes...
>
>
> The unseasonably warm weather we had here (St. Louis) led to my
> brother's garden producing tomatoes well into fall. I'm nursing the
> last of the home-growns he gave me a couple of weeks ago. More acid
> than high-summer ones but infinitely better than anything available in
> the stores.
>
>
>
> Brian
Any home grown tomato is better than anything available at the
stores..... ;-) I'm fixin' to set up pots in the greenhouse for
container tomotoes over the winter. I get tomatoes in late February that
way.
--
Om.
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson
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| Default User |
OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> I, for one, could not imagine living without tomatoes...
The unseasonably warm weather we had here (St. Louis) led to my
brother's garden producing tomatoes well into fall. I'm nursing the
last of the home-growns he gave me a couple of weeks ago. More acid
than high-summer ones but infinitely better than anything available in
the stores.
Brian
--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)
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| OmManiPadmeOmelet |
In article <3svbcdFptijuU1@individual.net>,
"Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
>
> > I, for one, could not imagine living without tomatoes...
>
>
> The unseasonably warm weather we had here (St. Louis) led to my
> brother's garden producing tomatoes well into fall. I'm nursing the
> last of the home-growns he gave me a couple of weeks ago. More acid
> than high-summer ones but infinitely better than anything available in
> the stores.
>
>
>
> Brian
Any home grown tomato is better than anything available at the
stores..... ;-) I'm fixin' to set up pots in the greenhouse for
container tomotoes over the winter. I get tomatoes in late February that
way.
--
Om.
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson
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