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a truly baffling question about strawberries
Frankly Scarlet, nobody gives a flying fig!!
You do a very poor Seinfeld impression. They are called strawberries because native Americans put straw around the plants so that the fruit would stay above the ground and not rot prematurely. Many still do the practice for the same reason. Not a mystery at all. You can spend the rest of your days pondering the mystery of "Grape Nuts". They're not nuts and there's no grapes in them. So what's the big deal? "Sean O'Hara" wrote in message ... In the Year of the Monkey, the Great and Powerful Derek Janssen declared: (And so, after five years of jokes about Gaza being reduced to rec.gardening for cross-trolls...) I'm just surprised he didn't go for the more obvious, "Why are they called strawberries if they don't look like straw?" -- Sean O'Hara Gibberish in Neutral: http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com Jeff: Well, it's kind of hard to tell isn't it 'cos you tend to fast forward if anyone's dressed. Sometimes I forget and do that with proper films. I can get through a lot of movies in an evening. --Coupling |
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