At 08:40 1998-07-12 -0400, Don wrote: >Here's my list, which includes most of the above, and others: corn/maize, >potatoes, tomatoes, squashes, green and chile peppers, sweet potatoes, >pumpkins, tobacco, cranberries, okra, quinoa, cocoa, and pineapple. Cranberries grow wild here in Sweden, one smaller variety in the southern part and a larger, better tasting, in the nothern part. Cultivated strawberries as we can by them here in Sweden (from Italy, Belgium, Germany, Norway and mostly from Sweden) are very similar in appearance and taste, to the wild strawberries that grow here (but much bigger). Bananas are very special among fruits (grow on a herb rather than a tree or a bush), and originates from south east Asia. Do they have some somilar, edible relative in Africa? Otherwise, can we trust them? I think these questions are very problematic :-( Either we have to go by guilty if not otherwise proved, and then there will be very little left to eat, or we go by not guilty if not otherwise proved, and then why exclude potatoes (in small amounts) for example. The stick and stone theory is too blunt I think. - Hans