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midwest
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| Coffee Beans from South America, loose leaf black tea, cumin, curry powder, mint tea, cracked wheat, and graham flour. |
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midwest
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:01 am Post subject: |
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| Majool dates from California! |
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Suwoner10
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| What's tomacco? |
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Tomacco is originally a fictional food that is half tomato and half tobacco, from the 1999 episode "E-I-E-I-Do'h" of the animated television series The Simpsons; the method used to create the tomacco in the episode is fictional. The tomacco became real when it was produced in 2003. The tomacco is one of the few made-up words in The Simpsons that resulted in real life application.
In 2003, inspired by The Simpsons, Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon successfully grafted a tomato plant onto the roots of a tobacco plant. Both plants are members of the same family, Solanaceae or nightshade.
The plant produced spawn that looked like a normal tomato, but Baur suspected that it contained a lethal amount of nicotine and thus would be inedible. Testing later proved that the leaves of the plant contained some nicotine. The world's first tomacco, destroyed in the testing process, contained no nicotine. The second tomacco was given to a Simpsons writer. The third was sold on eBay and the fourth was eaten by a Xerox engineer who suffered no apparent ill effects from the tomacco. The Tomacco plant bore tomaccoes until it died after 18 months, spending one winter indoors.
The process of making tomacco was first revealed in a 1959 Scientific American article, which stated that nicotine could be found in the tomato plant after grafting. Due to the academic and industrial importance of this breakthrough process, this article was reprinted in a 1968 Scientific American compilation, Bio-Organic Chemistry, on page 170. (ISBN 0-7167-0974-0)
The 2004 convention of the American Dialect Society named tomacco as the new word "least likely to succeed."[1] Tomacco was www.wordspy.com "word of the Day". http://www.wordspy.com/words/tomacco.asp |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomacco |
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crash
Joined: 22 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Fat Tire Beer |
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