My fast food update
On Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 2:35:10 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2021 10:50:17 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 1:07:33 PM UTC-4, Transition Zone wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 1:01:00 PM UTC-4, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> >> > We'd still have fava beans, chickpeas, soybeans, and lentils.
> >> >
> >> > I could do without squash, but I would miss tomatoes.
> >> I agree on both points. I HATE squash.
> >
> >I don't hate it. I just don't like it enough to care whether it exists.
> >
> >Still, as originally posited, we'd never know the difference. Without the
> >Native Americans, we wouldn't know what we were missing, having
> >never eaten tomatoes or chiles.
> Weren't these things just growing there? Native Americans didn't
> invent tomatoes and chillies
They bred them up from tiny things the size of currants.
> (what kind of word is chiles, does it
> rhyme with Miles?).
It's a Spanish word. Pronounced chee-lays.
Cindy Hamilton
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