In a message dated 7/14/99 4:00:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< If my memory of American history serves,
early Europeans who came to America considered the wild tomato they found to
be poison; it took a period of farming for the tomato to become edible. >>
The tomato didn't change-the people were all wrong when they feared poisons!