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June 12, 2023
The US War on Currants and Gooseberries
Marvin Pitts, a professor of horticulture at Cornell University, estimates that 99.9% of Americans have never tasted a blackcurrant. The reason? For nearly a century the US government conducted a war on currants and gooseberries.
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