The "Santa tomato" is a variety of tomato, specifically a sweet grape
variety. It has naught to do with saints, per se, except, perhaps to the
Xmas season visitor.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 9:00 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Saintly Salad?
>
>
> Scavenging for messages in our local Marks and Spencers food
> store, I noticed
> they are retailing an item called 'Santa Tomato Salad'. I
> don't recall a 'St
> Tomato', and To-Mato seems an unlikely celtic hypocoristic
> for St Michael.
>
> Yours cluelessly,
>
> Henry Gough-Cooper
>
> visit the Scottish Place-Name Society website at
> http://www.st-and.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.htm
>
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