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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Tomatoes: sex, death, and cigarettes

NPR has a wonderful short piece on tomatoes at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106932330&sc=fb&cc=fp. My favorite quote:

The enigmatic tomato belongs to the same family as tobacco and the toxic, deadly nightshade, but that just adds to its glamour. Sex, death and cigarettes: Eden's forbidden fruit should have been a tomato.


And they mention a tomato-wrestling contest. Fabulous!