On Thu, 4 May 2000 07:12:11 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>On Wed, 3 May 2000, Ingrid Bauer/J-C Catry wrote:
>
>> strawberries are natives of europe too.
>
>I stand corrected.  I was working from an article that listed
>strawberries and indigenous New World foods, which they are, but
>they are not *uniquely* New World foods, since the Romans knew
>about them.

I you you both were right.
The normal big "garden"-strawberry comes from america,
from europe stems the very small and tasty wood-strawberry.
Same applies to many apples and gooseberries and many trees.

Most commercial available strawberries are the new world originating.

New- or old world whatever it may mean -
for me personally the small wood strawberries are much more tasty
than the big ones which often only taste like - water.

I wiped out the last garden strawberries against some wood strawberries
beneath the bushes, and a some of intermediates.

regards

Amadeus S.