[SECC] The peach state?

[K4SAV]

I thought Lee's comment of being in the "pit of the peach state" was 
cute, and then I realized I didn't know what the official fruit of the 
state of Alabama is, so I looked it up.  It is a peach.  WHAT???  Yeah, 
we grow some good peaches, but everyone knows that Georgia is the 
"official" peach state (whether they are better than Alabama peaches is 
a matter of debate).  Seems like that happened in 2006.  It was 
previously a blackberry.   Yeah we grow a lot of those too.  They are 
all over the place, my property is full of them, but they aren't much of 
a crop.  Earlier until 1982 it was a pecan.  Seems I remember something 
about Georgia being able to grow a few pecans too.  I guess we can't 
decide.

Alabama has always been know as the cotton state.  Why?  I don't know.  
We produce a lot of cotton but there are 8 or 10 other states that 
produce more, including Georgia.

Also interesting is that the official fruit of Rhode Island is also a 
peach.  Rhode Island?  Where would they put the trees?

South Carolina which is #2 on the peach production list, does claim the 
peach as the state fruit, but the state is known as "The Palmetto 
state", "The Rice State", "The Swamp State", "The Iodine State", and a 
few others.  They are all confused.

California which grows more peaches than South Carolina, Georgia, or 
Alabama, decided to not get into the argument and has no official 
fruit.  Unofficially, I heard they have a whole city full of them.

Jerry, K4SAV
still in the briar patch
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