"Arri London" > wrote in message
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> JE Anderson wrote:
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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.

Ah,, thank you Arri. I was thinking tuna, as in the fish and was wondering
how that nickname had happened <grin>. Talk about thinking
one-dimensionally!

Thanks.,
Janet