By Walt Hickey When Life Gives You Lemons A lemon that is hundreds of years old sold at auction for £1,416 at Brettell’s Auctioneers. The lemon bears an inscription that reads “Given by Mr P Lu Franchini Nov 4 1739 to Miss E Baxter” and is thought to have been a souvenir brought back from India to the United Kingdom. The desiccated fruit was found in the bottom drawer of a 19th-century Chinese collector’s chest. Given the current state of the English palate and their national tolerance for spice, I can only imagine what taste buds of the United Kingdom were accustomed to in the early 1700s, and my personal theory is that the lemon was imported as a weapon of potentially mass destruction.
Correction corner. "...most of which ($37 million)..." should be $37 *billion*, right? I think you got the wrong illion.