SC - Re: New Articles at MKCC!
grizly@mindspring.com
grizly at mindspring.com
Mon Nov 27 18:20:17 PST 2000
At 7:06 PM -0600 11/27/00, Michael Newton wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "david friedman" <ddfr at best.com>
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:13 PM
>Subject: Re: SC - Poisonous Tomatoes?
>
>
> Medlars are not normally seen in U.S.
>> grocery stores.
>>
>I thought that the reasons Medlars are too hard to ship to market seeing as
>they have to be bletted - which means when they would hit the market when
>they're underripe (so are tomatoes, I know) or ripe, when they are,IIRC,
>extremely soft.
My point was that there are lots of reasons why a paticular food
isn't used in a particular culture other than the belief that it is
poisonous.
So far as medlars are concerned, they are available in markets in
Europe. And they could be sold here before they were bletted and kept
by the buyer until they were bletted--or transported before, held by
the store, and sold after. Persimmons are probably a closer
equivalent than tomatoes--and are commonly sold, at least around
here. As you probably know, they are very fragile when ripe and very
astringent when unripe.
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David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
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