No that’s not an instruction, but a couple of the old names for something you’ve probably got fresh and in tins in your kitchen. If you have a garden or allotment and enjoy growing your own food you probably have them there as well.
“Wolf peach” is the literal translation of lycopersicum – an older botanical Latin name for this well known plant. Some of its relatives might also be sitting in your kitchen waiting to be eaten although others such as woody nightshade and black nightshade are pretty deadly with poisonous fruit or leaves so best kept out of the way. Indeed when Love Apples, another of their nicknames, were first introduced into northern Europe in the late 16thc many people avoided eating them thinking they shared the same deadly traits. Even without the benefits of modern hybridisation and improvement our ancestors didn’t know what they were missing. Nowadays there’s even a global society dedicated to them
I am of course talking about ….
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