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Article: Sexy berry spurs cottage industry Seed of the wild saw palmetto gains reputation as a folk prostate cure
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 7, 1997
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This used to be the dead season, a time between citrus and tomato
harvests when idle farm workers had little to do but wait for
towering afternoon thunderstorms to rumble in from the Everglades
and clear the air of dust. But no more.
Fired up by a crop reputed to be a sexual stimulant and antidote
to enlarged prostates, New Market Road is lined with roadside buyers,
standing behind hand-lettered signs reading "Se compra bolita" and
waving stacks of cash at pickers who cruise by in trucks and vans
loaded with sacks of splotchy yellow berries.
"Twenty-four cents a pound," the buyers were calling at one point
last week, citing that hour's price.
The bolita "little ball" in Spanish is the ...