A strange little side quest
If Strawberry Shortcake: Fruit Filled Fun sends you down a curiosity rabbit hole, start here. Tomatoes helped turn Naples' flatbreads into the food we recognize as pizza, which had become an important food for poorer Neapolitans by the 18th century. Another piece of context lands nicely beside it: Arthur Wynne published a diamond-shaped 'Word-Cross' in the New York World on December 21, 1913; the name later shifted to 'Cross-Word' and then 'crossword'. So a round of Strawberry Shortcake: Fruit Filled Fun is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer food history timeline.
