SC - artichokes

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In a message dated 8/30/00 1:32:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ddfr at best.com 
writes:

<< Does anyone know why the entirely different American vegetable got 
 called an artichoke at all? >>

Je*ru*sa*lem artichoke (noun)

[Jerusalem by folk etymology from Italian girasole girasole]

Ras
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