Lo, the Tomatillo

... which means "little tomato," a misnomer, as so many things are, because the tomatillo (pronounced "toe-mah-TEE-yo") well,

it's not a little tomato. Physalis philadelphica, its formal name -- and the joke current in tomatillo circles ends with the line, "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphica." -- is indeed a member of the Solanaceae, or nights…