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Default Tomatoes - faulty measurements?

On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 1:04:57 PM UTC-5, Lenona wrote:
> On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 12:47:12 PM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 12:00:34 PM UTC-5, Lenona wrote:
> > > I made about a gallon of spaghetti sauce last night and I'd say it tasted very good. Just the right amount of pepper, for one thing.
> > >
> > > The recipe called for 18 tomatoes. I only had cans of diced and crushed tomatoes.
> > >
> > > Here's the weird part. When I googled, it said that there are two large or three medium tomatoes per pound, which certainly sounds right. But...when I asked how many tomatoes are in a 28-oz. CAN, it said...TEN tomatoes!
> > >
> > > How can there be more than six?

> > How big were those tomatoes when they came out of the can? How many were there?
> >

> Um, as I said, some were already diced and some were crushed. Before being canned.


Sorry, I missed that part. My bad.

Cindy Hamilton