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Leonard Blaisdell[_2_]

In article >,
(Victor Sack) wrote:

> The fruit of the wakwak tree.
>
> Victor
>
> "In the light of their reluctance to accept new foods, one wonders if
> the American colonists would even have welcomed the fruit of the wakwak
> tree if they had had the good luck to find it. It seems to have become
> suddenly extinct after 1729, when it was described as one of the new
> plants of the New World by a Turkish writer Ibrahim Effendi, who failed
> unfortunately to state exactly where it grew -- a pity, for it seems to
> have been a delightful plant. Its fruit, Ibrahim Effendi /dixit/, was
> "ripe and attractive women."

After 1729, the Americans changed from a birch bark bed to a feather bed
and the fruit changed from wakwak to whooshwhoosh. It's still the same
fruit. You could look it up, but I wouldn't.

leo