Apropos of Holy Land delicacies, I remember reading a long time ago in National Geographic
about a hobo a very long time ago trying to obtain handout at U.S. Agriculture site in Arizona.
where they had some date palms from seeds stolen in Arabia. When the hobo was denied a
handout, he pointed to the date palms, and said: "I know why you can't get them to produce
any dates." That got him his handout. He was able to tell them that the date palms were
pollinated by a special species of ant, which they hadn't know. So after another trip to Arabia
to steal the right kind of ants, the date palms finally bore fruit.