Arri London extrapolated from data available...

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> JE Anderson wrote:
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>> "Arri London" > wrote in message
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>> > TY for the invite, but my travel budget was spent on/in London.
>> > Nothing more in the books until next year. June is also my busy
>> > season for my gardening business.
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>> > But yes when I lived in San Diego I used to pick tuna fruit along
>> > the rim of the canyon (overlooking Mission Valley). Probably all
>> > built up now no doubt, right to the very edge.
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>> This is a totally foreign cuisine for me as a "raised on white-bread"
>> Canadian so I have to ask - where does the nickname tuna-fruit come
>> from?
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>> Janet
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> Tuna is just the Spanish name for the cactus fruit from the prickly
> pear plant. Couldn't tell you the etymology of it.

In the Mexican culinary cuboard, the cactus pad, nopal (or noplitos,
little strips thereof) are certainly as popular as the tuna (once you get
past the spines). Vaguely "green-beanish" in flavor, available cnnned (in
jars) but much better fresh, they make a fine vegetable and useful salad
stretcher.

TMO