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Created: March 19, 2004
Latest Update: March 19, 2004
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Fried Green Tomatoes and the Banning of Red Tomatoes

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, March 2004.
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I'll have to add the essay for this later. I was surfing the Internet trying to pull lots of ideas together from how people from different cultures, geographical areas, and professional orientations were handling the intersection of art with daily reality. I came across the European teaching site because I was trying desperately to verify the comment I heard the other night on TV about green tomatoes. The host of the program showing Fried Green Tomatoes, said something about the Pope forbidding Italians to eat red tomatoes. I remember thinking "My goodness, I didn't even know tomatoes had a political orientation, Communist tomatoes?" But the host went on to give a different explanation, rather pedestrian, that I couldn't remember later. The only thing in my search that came near an explanation was that the red related to blood. Hardly a reason for the Pope to banish the tomato, though. What has been bloodier than the crusades?

Eat On Line: Art European teaching site.

Fried Green Tomatoes with Shrimp Remoulade found while looking for story of Pope's prohibition against red tomatoes.