Tomatoes

Wikipedia describes tomatoes as a non-lethal throwing weapon and a good source of lycopene. Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant, believed to fight free radicals that may cause cancer. (Lycopene is also present in watermelon, papaya, pink grapefruit, and guava).

It's found in anything tomato: ketchup, tomato sauce, spaghetti sauce, etc. 


Tomatoes are the number one plant in home gardens in America. They're even grown on apartment balconies.

They are easily stuffed with ground beef and cheese or other ingredients and cooked in the microwave.

They are great sliced and used as a pizza topping.

If you think about it, how would we live without them?

Remember when catsup is about all that was in the stores?

I remember sitting at the table when I was a kid looking at the bottle and wondering why it was spelled that way but we didn't say it that way.

These days ketchup is all you see in the stores and it's spelled and pronounced the same way!


Why the difference? Here's a couple of ideas about that.


Catsup Versus Ketchup


World Wide Words (about Ketchup)