SC - Fw: [Mid] Bunk or debunk?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Bronwynmgn at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 5/2/99 1:05:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com
> writes:
> 
> << > >Life in the 1500's
> 
>  Obviously someone with too much time on their hands... >>
> 
> Who didn't devote enough of their spare time to research.  "Stopped eating
> tomatoes for 400 years because of the stuff leached out of the pewter plates
> by the acid"?  yowch.
> 
> Brangwayna

Which leaves open the question of why they still ate vinegar, wine,
gooseberries, lemons, etc...

I liked some of the linguistic speculation: my favorite was the part
about raining cats and dogs.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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