[Magdalen] Another "worthless" food.

[James Handsfield]

When first imported into Europe from the New World, they were thought to be an aphrodisiac, hence the Romance language name pomodoro and deriviatives  (love apple) and were banned in many places.

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Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net

> On Sep 29, 2016, at 1:01 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> What did the world (especially Italy) do before tomatoes?
> They are insidious.  It seems everything contains some
> tomatoe.