I heard about it briefly this morning on NBC 4 News (Columbus.) I am happy Ohio has a state fruit and that the state fruit is the tomato.
5 reason’s the tomato works as Ohio’s state fruit:
1. Ohio is the number two producer of tomatoes today (I did not know that. Who is number one?)
2. The first commercially produced tomato, the pararon tomato was produced in Ohio in 1870.
3. Reynoldsburg Ohio (a suburb of Columbus on the southeast side) has a Tomato Festival and a Tomato Parade.
4. The hard work of school kids from Wilmington Ohio (southwest Ohio) They’ve been working on this for years.
5. The tomato is one of those fruits that I think is a vegetable and that makes it more fun.
According to an article “Area Students push for state fruit” in Wilmington Ohio’s WNEWSJ.com (online edition of the Wilmington News Journal and Wilmington News Star Journal) other fruit’s that have been suggested in the past, the article says the “paw-paw and apple..” Apples are nice… Personally I have seen paw-paw trees but never the real fruit… Tomatoes are everywhere… in salads… in pasta sauce… in juice ( personally I don’t like tomato juice but tomatoes are in V-8 and I like V-8) …
The WNEWSJ article written by Ryan Carter says it all started in Christina Shingledecker’s class back in 2005 because Florida made the orange their state fruit…
Who is number one producer of tomatoes? California?
Thanks Mrs. (?) Shingledecker and students…. at Miami Trace School in Wilmington Ohio for the NEW state fruit. Thanks for your persistance.
The photos is from Ohioan Cindy Funk. She shared it on Flickr with a Creative Commons License. Click on Cindy Funk’s tomato photo to see her Flickr photostream
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Tomatoes are one of my most important foods.
Without tomatoes We would not have:
1. Pizza
2. Pasta and Sauce
3. Meatballs in sauce
4. Bracisole in sauce
5. Sausage in sauce.
Every thing in sauce
6. Ketchup. I eat it on everything!
7. BLT’s
8. Tomato Salad.
9. Sauce to dip great Italian bread into.
10. Steak Pizziola
11. Sauce for rice balls.
12. Sauce for everything!
13. Tomatoe Juice.
What this has to do with real estate and new homes I don’t quite know, but to me it is in the center of life.
Richard,
“What this has to do with real estate and new homes I don’t quite know, but to me it is in the center of life.”
This site is called ColumbusBestBlog.com Ohio is a city in Columbus. See at the top it says “A blog about the best of Columbus & Central Ohio by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER ?” This site says (but I don’t expect you to read it) it IS NOT all about real estate. It is certainly not all about new homes… oh you just stopped by for the link.
Oops it is gone. Move along.