Friday, May 25, 2012

Society of the Military Horse • View topic - Off Topic: World War One Made British Eats Bad

Society of the Military Horse • View topic - Off Topic: World War One Made British Eats Bad

1 comment:

Pat, Marcus & Alexis said...

And after this, on NPR's "Science Friday", I learned that WWII is responsible for bad tomatoes.

Yes, bad tomatoes.

Pressured with the need to grow vast numbers of tomatoes that would not go bad immediately, US farmers switched to the current bland varieties during WWII, a scientist claimed. You can overcome it, however, if you grow your own. . .particularly, he claimed, a heritage variety.