Posted on 18 March 2009 by tomatocasual.com
Tomatoes Make Rugby News
By Michelle Fabio
It’s not often that tomatoes come up in the context of world sports, but that’s exactly what happened recently at a press conference for the Ireland rugby union team.
When asked what it was like to have played for the England coach, Ireland captain Brian O’Driscoll responded:
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”
I love this line, but I have no idea what is has to do with rugby (and apparently neither did anyone else as it became a hot topic of discussion).
Anyway, I’d like to thank Brian for sharing this wonderful turn of phrase with us. Do you have a favorite tomato aphorism?
March 25th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Yeah that was a good one but as far as I know that was a dare from someone else in the team set up! I guess it was part of giving the media something to talk about while they got on with the task at hand. Seems to have worked so
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March 30th, 2009 at 3:39 am
Hah! Brilliant