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Here’s a fact that will annoy your friends: tomatoes float in water. Yes, the 53-pound bushel is buoyant. Imagine trying to weigh a bushel of them in a rowboat; you could accidentally create a submarine.

Also, a bushel of green tomatoes weighs the same as a bushel of red ones. Ripe or unripe, gravity doesn’t care about your color preferences. Gravity is a heartless tomato-hater.

If you ever haul a bushel home, be prepared for the sound of a thousand tiny thuds. Opening the box is like opening a container of flesh-colored grenades. Do not throw them at your spouse. They will bruise. The tomatoes, I mean. Probably both.

A Brief History of the Bushel (Because You Asked)

The word “bushel” comes from an old French term for a box. Medieval peasants used it for grain, not tomatoes. They didn’t have tomatoes in Europe yet—those came from the Americas, and they thought they were poisonous. Imagine the disappointment: “Look, a glowing red fruit! Probably death.”

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By the time tomatoes were safe, the bushel had already been standardized for wheat. So now, you’re stuck carrying 53 pounds of the most versatile fruit (yes, fruit) on the planet. History is a mean architect.