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Janet

In article >,
says...
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> On 2014-01-27 6:42 AM, Janet wrote:
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> >> Peanut oil, popcorn, peanut butter, one-minute oats, canned jalapenos, raisins
> >> (black and golden), Crystal hot sauce, Marie Sharp's habanero sauce, poultry
> >> seasoning, white vinegar, maple syrup.
> >
> > Europe would not consider canned tomatoes, rice, mayonnaise or black
> > and golden raisins to be American :-)
>
> Tomatoes are an interesting case because they are a new world product
> was was eagerly adapted into the European diet, agriculture and economy.

Of course. But canning came much later; tomatoes were well known in
Europe a few centuries before canning began.

> A lot of people seem to associate rice with Asia but it is also
> produced in great quantities in the US.

True; but it was well known (and grown) in Europe before Columbus.

I don't think I have ever seen
> raisins from anywhere other than the US.

Known in Europe thousands of years before Columbus.

http://www.sunmaid.com/history-of-ra...ied-fruit.html

Janet UK