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  • From: "Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] currant events
  • Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:33:20 -0800

Clear and correct! I had that factoid hidden in my brain behind some boxes
- you jostled it right down. Thanks!

Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bob Hartley
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 6:27 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] currant events

Currants are called currants because they look like Zante grapes which
were called currants because they were grown in Greece and shipped west
from Corinth. The word "currant" is a corruption of "Corinth". That clear?

Bob Hartley








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