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Default Tomatoes - faulty measurements?

On 2/25/2021 12:00 PM, 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.
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> The recipe called for 18 tomatoes. I only had cans of diced and crushed tomatoes.
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> 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!
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> How can there be more than six?
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As long as the tomato sauce turned out well, why worry about the number
of tomatoes per can?

Jill