Eggplant too

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And pineapple

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Also sweetbread. Nothing close to sweet and nothing close to bread.

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thrillville

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I know

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long island ice tea...nothing close to tea in it

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In case you actually wanted to know: Grapefruit: From grape +‎ fruit, an allusion to the grapelike clusters of fruit on the tree. Ciardi proposes another theory. The pummelo's botanical name was Citrus grandis, meaning "great citrus [fruit]", due to the large size of the fruits. It would be natural to call the new pummelo variety a "greatfruit". By saying that name a few times, with its consonant cluster, it sounds like "grapefruit", and it would easily have morphed to that form. This second suggestion is completely speculative, without attestation, but seems much more reasonable than the equally speculative "grape cluster" theory. Sources: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grapefruit#Etymology http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=grapefruit

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Eggplant: The name of eggplant was given it by Europeans in the middle of the eighteenth century because the variety they knew had fruits that were the shape and size of goose eggs. That variety also had fruits that are a whitish or yellowish colour rather than the wine purple that is more familiar to us nowadays. So the sort they knew really did look as though it had fruits like eggs. In Britain, it is usually called an aubergine, a name which was borrowed through French and Catalan from its Arabic name al-badinjan. That word had reached Arabic through Persian from the Sanskrit vatimgana, which indicates how long it has been cultivated in India. In India, it has in the past been called brinjal, a word which comes from the same Arabic source as British aubergine, but filtered through Portuguese (the current term among English speakers in India is either the Hindi baingan, or aubergine). Source: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080703050745AA7Lhsu

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Pineapple: The word "pineapple" in English was first recorded in 1398, when it was originally used to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees (now termed pine cones). The term "pine cone" for the reproductive organ of conifer trees was first recorded in 1694. When European explorers discovered this tropical fruit in the Americas, they called them "pineapples" (first so referenced in 1664 due to resemblance to what is now known as the pine cone). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple#Etymology

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Sweetbread: The etymology isn't known for certain but: "Pancreas used as food" 1560s, from sweet(adj.); the -bread element may be from O.E. bræd "flesh." “Sweet” is perhaps used since the thymus is sweet and rich-tasting, as opposed to savory-tasting muscle flesh. "Bread" may come from brede 'roasted meat' or from the Old English brǣd ('flesh' or 'meat'). Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetbread http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sweetbread

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Long Island Ice Tea: There are 2 different stories for this one: 1) Robert "Rosebud" Butt claims to have invented the drink as an entry in a contest to create a new mixed drink including Triple Sec, in 1972 while he worked at the Oak Beach Inn on Long Island, NY. Various local New York references echo Butt's claims.Local rumors also ascribe the origin to either Butt or another bartender at the Old Beach Inn, Chris Bendicksen. 2) Alternatively, a slightly different drink is claimed to have been invented in the 1920s during Prohibition, by an "Old Man Bishop" in a local community named Long Island in Kingsport, Tennessee. The drink was then perfected by Ransom Bishop, "Old Man Bishop"'s son. This drink included whiskey and maple syrup, and varied quantities of the 5 liquors, rather than the modern one with cola and 4 equal portions of the 4 liquors. *According to www.liicetea.com it's called ice tea because it looks like ice tea and his recipe apparently tastes like ice tea. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Iced_Tea http://www.loving-long-island.com/long-island-ice-tea-history-and-recipe.html http://www.liicetea.com/

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