The lettuce thing.... The story was that a large settlement was driven from home, and the women and children hid in a large lettuce field where they were slaughtered (by the Turks if I remember the story)... The blood flowed and the plants were tainted with the blood of the martyred. To eat it is tantamount to cannibalism of your own people.
"Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at it�s worst, an intolerable one."
Thomas Paine (from "Common Sense" 1776)
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