> wrote in message
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> Lets say you have 500 pounds of tomatoes hypothetically... <snip>

Well, since this is only hypothetical, what are the limits to our
speculations? Can we postulate a food-replicating device such as in Star
Trek, which will take your 500 tomatoes, turn them into energy, and then
make 5000 bars of chocolate liqueur out of them? Or, for that matter,
anything you want out of them. Even salsa.

Hypothetically, of course.