>Incidentally, as recently as the;youth of one of my grandfathers, tomatoes were thought unsafe to eat.
Talking to friends with elderly relatives here in Scotland that seemed to apply to almost all non root vegetables until fairly recently!
.... OK I've made it white, it's a foodie thingy, .... back to the land of the deep fried Mars Bar ... oh, maybe that is relevant, I can post that ...Mars bars (they are different in the UK to the ones in the USA but that is another story) were named after Forrest Mars.
M&Ms too (we used to call them "Treats", unless they were a different company, possibly because we didn't have Hershey's chocolate here)
The first M was Mars, the second M stands for Bruce Murrie, who was the son of the president of Hershey, Mars’ biggest competitor. Mars put up 80% of the capital, Bruce Murrie 20%. The explanation for this unusual joint venture was that chocolate was rationed during WWII, but not for Hershey’s, which produced chocolate for the troops. By setting up in business in this way, M&Ms had a guaranteed source of chocolate. (Mars soon bought the younger Murrie out, but M&Ms continued to be made with Hershey’s chocolate through the 60s.)
http://www.goodbyemag.com/jul99/mars.html
