I had to post. The state Assembly is considering a bill that would declare the tomato New Jersey’s state vegetable. I know all you nay-sayers out there will pooh-pooh the bill, saying that tomatoes are fruit and all. But, as the bill points out
The tomato, while technically a “fruit,” is legally considered to be a vegetable in an 1893 United States Supreme Court decision, and is in the same botanical family as the potato, pepper, and eggplant
And, to keep this as local as possible,
In 1847 Harrison W. Crosby of Jamesburg, New Jersey, was the first person in the nation to can tomatoes commercially, making Jersey tomatoes available across the nation
So, all hail the Jersey tomato.
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