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...years. People laughed when someone put a live rattlesnake, with its mouth sewn shut, in his bedroll at a chili-cooking contest. They laughed even harder when he tried to peddle Hawaiian Delight pizzas, a terrifying concoction of Canadian bacon, pineapple chunks and cherries smothered in tomato paste and melted cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Hot Licks | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Scientists are changing the nature of crops so fast that, as George Kitahara puts it, "present varieties of fruit trees are obsolete before they are full grown." Consider, for instance, what scientists at the University of California at Davis are doing with the lowly tomato. They have developed a "square" tomato with a tough flat-sided skin that is ideal for both picking by machine and packing for shipment without bruising; it has become the standard tomato for canning. Now agrono mists are close to developing a tomato resistant to the salt that settles in irrigated fields or is blown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Turns, just like the pains my older sister used to get before they operated on her varicose veins-anyway, this guy comes on during the Late Show and he's demonstrating the Miracle Vegetronic. You know, the one that slices, dices, cubes, chops, grates, shoestrings and shaves a tomato so thin you can read a newspaper through it? Well, I sent in my $10.27 plus postage and handling to Fly-by-Day Enterprises, P.O. Box 18,274, Ocean View, Kans., and it's been seven years now and I haven't heard. Can you help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Miss Lonelyhearts Many Times Over | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson faces the revamped Big Red today in a game that should make Harvard Stadium look like an explosion in a tomato cannery on a sunset evening...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Ivy Rivalries Resume as Cornell Enters Stadium | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

...dark-meat tuna on lettuce leaf, 3 slices greenhouse tomato with all the harmful flavor removed, 1 onion cut in the shape of a ribbon, 1 radish cut in the shape of a radish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A Guide to American Restaurant Menus | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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