Soup made of Jerusalem artichokes. This is a good example of
blunder begetting blunder. Jerusalem artichoke is a corruption of the
Italian Girasole articiocco- i.e. the “sunflower artichoke.”
From girasole we make Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem artichokes we make Palestine soup.
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