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Cloudbusting!
Posts: 4120 (July 4, 2009 15:24:51) Running (Up That Hill) |
Helen Bywater wrote: Tomatoes are related to deadly nightshade after all. The solanum faamily also includes potatoes and eggplant.
John
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Running (Up That Hill)
Posts: 74 (July 4, 2009 16:10:24) |
johnmorango2 wrote: True, and I've been told that people who are into macrobiotics don't eat for them for that reason - they're considered to be too yin, if I recall correctly - but by the 20th century they were regarded by most people as being edible. As Steve's link said, they were thought to be poisonous and only used as decorative plants in parts of Europe - that much is true - but only until the 19th century.
You came to me in a dream, and I said, "We can't go on meeting like
this".
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Running (Up That Hill)
Posts: 546 (July 4, 2009 17:16:15) |
What I wonder is how they found out tomatoes WEREN'T poisonous. Here's how I picture it:
"Goodbye, Berthilda, I shall now do away with myself by eating this tomato!" (nom nom nom) "Oh my God, this is DELICIOUS!" (nom nom nom)
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And the Chupacabra! Madre de dios he'll kill us all!" -Max
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Running (Up That Hill)
Posts: 77 (July 4, 2009 18:02:50) |
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You came to me in a dream, and I said, "We can't go on meeting like
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Cloudbusting!
Posts: 3326 (July 5, 2009 00:45:36) Admin |
"England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a
bone-house"
We recently went to one of the few remaining - in Hythe 
Peter
HomeGround the Kate Bush Magazine Proud member of the "Kate IS/WAS/AND CONTINUES TO BE WONDERFUL" Nutters Club |
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Cloudbusting!
Posts: 3434 (July 5, 2009 08:30:30) Looking (At The Big Sky!) |
well,i've been eating tomatoes all my life and they've never done me any ......................
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