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<br>There are 14 messages totalling 472 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. Mangoes
<br>  2. )You the/da man9
<br>  3. big weekend (4)
<br>  4. Man the ships
<br>  5. grammar safari website
<br>  6. grammari safari successful
<br>  7. drinking & (was "drugging")
<br>  8. "You the man."
<br>  9. "tinner" in 1910 baseball poem
<br> 10. Forwarded message re "tinner"
<br> 11. 2nd forwarded message re "tinner"
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<br>Date:    Mon, 8 Jun 1998 00:24:19 -0700
<br>From:    Kim & Rima McKinzey <rkm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SLIP.NET>
<br>Subject: Mangoes
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<br>Do you remember when the third volume of DARE came out and there was a
<br>contest to match words and their definitions?
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<br>Well I remember that one of them was mangoes and it matched with bell
<br>peppers.  I didn't get the connection.  In Wednesday's San Francisco
<br>Chronicle's food section, there was the following article:
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<br>"In the 18th Century, Europeans got to know the tropical world on an
<br>unprecendented scale.  In the process, they got to know tropical fruits,
<br>which had the same sort of exotic appeal for them that they have for us
<br>today, except that they were vastly more expensive.
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<br>Only a few varieties had any hope of surviving the weeks-long boat journey
<br>to Europe.
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<br>One that did was the pineapple, and Europe went pineapple-mad.  ...
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<br>Pineapples became the symbol of lavish hospitality, which is why so many
<br>pieces of antique dining room furniture are ornamented with carved
<br>pineapples.
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<br>Another tropical hit was the mango.  Ripe fresh mangoes didn't have a
<br>prayer of making it from India to London, of course, but pickled mangoes
<br>did.  Mango pickles were fantastically fashionable, and very expensive.
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<br>As a result, people who couldn't afford mangoes started "mangoing" other
<br>things by pickling them in the higly spiced Indian style.
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<br>This explains the dozens of late 18th and early 19th Century recipes for
<br>"mangoes" made from cucumbers, cantaloupes, green peaches, and bell
<br>peppers, and probably why some Midwesterners still refer to bell peppers as
<br>"mangoes."
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<br>Rima
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