Was it really? lol.
Oui. Lady Lamb was a real tomato as a young woman, Napoleon called her “Mon petite cabbage.” She didn’t carrot all for the nicknames, they left her steamed, and the irony is that she was run over on the left bank and remained a vegetable until her death in 1870, just as the Prussians entered Paris looking for shaven women and a good meal, something other than bloody sausages and kraut.