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- Warwickshire Libraries Heritage and Trading Standards
- People in story:听
- Ivy Whalley
- Location of story:听
- Coventry
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3895554
- Contributed on:听
- 14 April 2005
When Italy declared war, my grandmother had in her pantry a tin of Italian plum tomatoes. Throughout the war, she refused to open the tomatoes, in case they were booby-trapped, and they stayed on the pantry shelf. As soon as the war was over, on VE Day, she opened the tin and used the tomatoes - obviously, once Italy was no longer the enemy, the tomatoes must have been safe!
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